What’s New? April 2024
NEW NURSERY EMAIL ADDRESS: To reach our nursery staff with questions about inventory or volunteering, please use cpinursery@gmail.com !
3-WEEKEND ANTIOCH PDC ENROLLING NOW: Summer dates have been posted and early bird registration is now open for this unique intensive PDC at Antioch College this July! Learn More
NURSERY Volunteer Days:
Wednesdays, April 17 and 24th, 4-dusk: Final prep for the spring plant sale!
SPRING PLANT SALE DATES ANNOUNCED!
Saturday, April 20, 9AM-5PM Members-Only Preview Sale
Friday, April 26, 3-7 PM ; Saturday, April 27 10AM-4PM ; and Sunday, April 28, 12-4PM
Scroll down for more info on our selection!
JUST ADDED! SOLD OUT! Spring Biochar Workshop: Learn to make biochar and go home with your own mini biochar burner! Sunday, April 28, 10 AM to 12:30 PM. [Stay tuned as we add more workshops like this over the summer!]
IMPLEMENTATION DAYS
Saturdays, April 27 and May 4, at the Shire
Sunday, May 5 at the Hensleys’ Earthship
Saturday & Sunday May 18 & 19 with April Pandora of Eden Urban Gardens
Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?
Now is a great time to become a CPI member (or as we call them, Neighbors!) or renew your membership, because members get special discounts at our nursery! >> Learn About Membership
It’s Here - The Spring Plant Sale with Growing Value Nursery, Urban Earth Farms & Cincinnati Permaculture Institute
Members-Only Spring Plant Preview, Saturday April 20, 9 AM to 5 PM
CPI Members get to shop our selection a week before our official spring kickoff (plus get discounts!)Spring Plant Sale, Arbor Day Weekend:
Friday April 26, 3 PM to 7 PM
Saturday April 27, 10 AM to 4 PM
Sunday April 28, 12 PM to 4 PM
Wait until you see the 2024 plant selection at the Growing Value Edible Nursery! We carry a wide variety of edible perennial trees, shrubs, bushes, and berries, along with complimentary plantings for your food forests and guilds, such as flowers to attract pollinators and perennial ground covers. This rare selection has been curated over the years to include the varieties and species that perform well in our local bio-region and includes many edibles that are hard to find at traditional nurseries and garden centers.
NEW!! Build-a Guild Packages
Wanting to kick start your food forest plantings this spring? We’ve pre-selected three 7-layer guilds with plants that we carry at Growing Value.
HICAN GUILD, featuring honeyberries, strawberries and kiwi
BUTTERNUT GUILD, featuring goumi berries, Jerusalem artichokes and hops
HEARTNUT GUILD, featuring pawpaw, serviceberry and passionflower
ABOUT CPI
OUR MISSION
To educate individuals and organizations on Permaculture in order to catalyze a resilient culture in the Cincinnati Bioregion. Leveraging symbiotic opportunities for practical regenerative results.
OUR VISION
Our diverse community builds its own resilient future; one plant, one person, one community at a time.
What We've Achieved
Permaculture Design Certifications:
Graduated 200 + Certified Designers in Cincinnati and our Region
Every year since 2008 we have held our Annual PDC's
Currently 20 courses hosted
10+ Teachers
Hosted at over 20 sites demonstrating Permaculture around the Cincinnati Area with everything from off grid living, food forests & Permaculture Gardens and farms, Keyline Design, Regenerative Livestock Management, School Gardens, Public Forage Gardens
Our students have gone on to become National Best Selling Authors on the subject, started Million Dollar companies in Sustainable Technologies, Run Non-Profits and organizations dedicated to social and ecological justice, started school and community gardens, started their own design consultancies or just go to live sustainably on or off the grid turning their ecological footprint from a negative to a positive!
Countless Weekend Workshops on subjects ranging from Food Forests to Rocket Mass Heaters
International Development Training for Development Workers in Morocco
Organized a 9 day training in Earthship/Tiny house construction
Supported and Headed up the development of numerous Community Forage Gardens, Community Orchards, Community and School Gardens
Created and Developed the City's first Permaculture based nursery, Growing Value, supplying the City with sources of Hardy Perennial Edibles.
