MENDOCINO CO., 9/18/16 — Activists, gardeners, artists, and the merely curious streamed into the Solar Living Institute for the fourth day of the annual North American Permaculture Convergence, hosted by the Northern California Building Resilient Communities Convergence. The Convergence is an event that sprawls across the grounds of the institute every year, drawing diverse speakers to explain how their disciplines fit into permaculture. It’s like a conference, mixed with a fair, with campgrounds and solar panels and a sculpture by Diego Harris too enormous to be truly whimsical. Early in the afternoon, a couple danced in the shallow pool in the plaza as children chased each other with buckets of water and small groups of adults held important discussions in lowered voices.
This is the third year the event has been hosted at the institute. Previously, the convergence was held at a different location each year, which meant, as organizer Joshua Angelo Silva, put it, “each time, we had to relearn the structure and figure out” how best to adapt the party to the grounds.
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