From weekend gardeners to master gardeners, we all share a true affinity for plants. Whether your gardening passion is organic food patches, butterfly gardens, flower gardens, cactii, or just improving your home's curb appeal, we've got it all. Join us for plant swaps and botanical garden shows. Our events are anywhere in the Tampa Bay area.

Sarasota Urban Gardening group is for anyone interested in urban gardening, sustainable living, organic growing, hydroponics, aquaponics, and permaculture." All skills levels are welcome. This group is started to help to meet other enthusiasts. We want to share ideas and information to grow and grow!!. Join us .. we will start meeting for brainstorming sessions, educational classes and sharing our passion and enjoyment of growing, and sustainable living.

The objective of the "Rise Up, St. Pete!" Community Gardening Team is to bring people together for a common purpose creating community pride, yielding healthy fruits & vegetables for residents and providing a sense of accomplishment, service to others in our city & self confidence in themselves. Our teams are comprised of interracial, cross-cultural members from churches and other interested organizations that have an interest in urban agriculture in St. Petersburg, FL.

Our permaculture guild is made up of people interested in permaculture concepts ranging from sustainable food production to food forestry and more.  You don't need any knowledge regarding or experience with permaculture, just a mind open to being a part of the solution and working to transition towards sustainability. What is Permaculture? While permaculture is a broad topic, for the purpose of this group, think of permaculture as creating edible gardens that mimic and work with nature in a sust …

I am seeking like minded individuals to help create a non-profit organization, purchase land and establish a sustainable community in or near Sarasota County, utilizing alternative building concepts such as geodesic domes, earthships, auqaponics & vertical organic gardening within the structures to set an example for low-impact yet elegant living with the ecosystem. I am an artist and part of my concept is to create a destination where artists and musicians can come together and perfect their cr …

Learn practical homesteading skills classes on self-reliance, gardening, cooking, raising animals, canning, soapmaking, mushroom cultivation, solar panel making, blacksmithing, traditional crafts and much more...

Transition Venice is part of the worldwide grassroots Transition movement to make our communities more food and energy resilient. You should join if you want to know what you can do to make your life less vulnerable to peak oil and if you are concerned about climate change. We have members who have ran an organic farm, designed energy efficient buildings, built their own solar hot water and electric systems and built electric bicycles and home gardens. We want to make the transition to a better …

We enhance the quality of life for residents and visitors by creating local sustainable systems of naturally grown food in ways that optimize our resources and serve our community

Please visit our website at ThePermacultureGuild.com The primary purpose of this Meetup group is to announce upcoming Permaculture Design Certification and related Courses that we will offer and also workshops and seminars. The Permaculture Guild is a partnership of permaculturists who have many combined years of experience in both permaculture and in education. Although it is not required, we do suggest that you join this Meetup group to receive our upcoming course announcements and other infor …

This is a community Meetup where we can exchange ideas, information, resources, connections, meetings, events, parties, films, etc, that will help us all to move toward a more regenerative way of life, through the power of permaculture design/whole systems design. Together, we can do more. Let's use this group to generate permaculture projects, to support existing projects, to create brainstorming design/planning sessions, to educate one another, to do seed swaps and other share events, or ?. Th …

I have a family of five and it always concerned me when ever I saw the produce and groceries with more commercial value than the nutritional value. I always wondered the disappearance of those vegetable gardens in the backyard where we played picking the produce and home growers who exchanged/shared their vegetables with other members in the community and thus built a stronger and healthy community in the past. To bring back that community to life I am looking for more like-minded people in the …

Welcome to the Charlotte County New friends group. We welcome members within the great Charlotte County area as well! We are single, married or in relationships. Our common bond is the desire to make friends, and experience SW FL and all it has to offer. We are not a dating site. ***PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE REQUESTING TO JOIN:*** WHO WE ARE: Most members are between 30 and 60 years old, interested in friendships and acquaintances. Single, in a relationship or married. Occasionally we …

The LIVING IN COMMUNITY NETWORK was proud to host Ms. Marianne Kilkenny Our sister community organizer of Women for Living in Community in Asheville, NC has been making news for some time. Watch the most recent video of her shared living experience as reported by Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News.

Are you interested in meeting others who share your enthusiasm about achieving high energy health and vitality by incorporating raw and living foods into your life welcome aboard? This group is focused on bringing people together educate and inspire you. We will have guest speakers here to demonstrate their knowledge and provide you with the tools you’ll need to live healthier, enjoy new foods and enrich your life. Come to our Potlucks to meet others interested in raw foods and health, get suppo …

In day to day hectic life, it has become a challenge to meet people and develop friendships. The goal of the group is to bring couples who are living in Wellington, Royal Palm, The Acreage, Loxahatchee, and Palm Beach Gardens together in a very informal environment like a back yard BBQ or patio party. We are always open to suggestions for things to do, keeping in mind a "low pressure" philosophy. Sometimes, you just need to relax.  Come join us for some food, fun, and friendship.  Although the f …

Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access to extensive common facilities such as open space, courtyards, a playground and a common house. The Tampa Cohousing grou …

Since becoming a Florida State Registered beekeeper, I have learn a lot of "what not to do". They say, "If you asked 10 beekeepers one question, you'll get 20 different answers". Don't know if you want to work with honey bees? Here is your chance to open a hive along with experienced beekeepers. Let's discuss the basics, get you comfortable in handling your honey bees, and understand our need for honey bees and other pollinators. Tree huggers and plant lovers are welcome. Those who want to be "b …

Join a great group of teachers and students at the Venice Holistic Center. We are a non-profit educational, wellness center, run by volunteers, dedicated to bringing the best programs and practitioners in body/mind, spiritual, wellness, sustainability and gardening for the city of Venice at reasonable fees and scholarships. Many who attend our events are not on Meetup so we have more attendance than shows here.

Welcome to our site. We are a Sarasota/Charlotte County emergency preparedness group looking to help others who wish to become more knowledgeable in being prepared for natural, economic or man made disasters. Please fill out the Profile Questions and tell us a little something about yourself.  Please only use your first name or a screen name when filling out you profile. We do not want you to post your last name for privacy reasons. Gen 41:35 "Then let them gather all the food of these good yea …

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West As a group, You Only Live Once is about living life to the fullest. We believe in packing every single day with a new and exciting adventure. We’re not going to wait until retirement to do all the things we want to do – we want to do it now! Come join us as we explore, try new activities, rediscover old interests, and make friends along the way. Tired of sitting at home with no idea where to go, what to explore, or with whom …

The Green Lifestyle group is about learning to live a healthy lifestyle that is in harmony with nature and doing it in a fun and social setting. Knowledge is the key to being able to accomplish this, and we are here to help you acquire it. An awareness of health and environmental issues has been developing, and  over the last few years has finally hit mainstream. Due to lack of knowledge, Green living for one person is using recycled printer paper. For another it's living completely off the grid …

This group is directed toward people with a love and passion for science. We will explore the physical sciences by checking out museums, aquariums, botanical gardens, and other places around the Sarasota/Bradenton area. I would also like to hold a weekly discussion group to talk about new discoveries in science and to just get to know each other better. If you're a college student, in the working field, or just a science enthusiast, please join this group. All are welcome!

The purpose of this Meetup is to facilitate a watershed based Bioregional Permaculture Design Project for the Tampa Bay Watershed. We will be using the Permaculture Flower and the Permaculture Carbon Cluster as organizational frameworks along with permaculture ethics and design principles to transform this watershed into a resilient and regenerative ecosystem.The base camp for this project is centered within this watershed/bioregion at The Permaculture Guild Research and Resource center in Tampa …

This group was originally formed to champion the efforts of local folks who grow and support our area growers, farmers and "foodies". It is currently changing and in a bit of a free form state of development...shifting a bit more towards supporting and promoting the LOHAS lifestyle in general. LOHAS is an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, a market segment focused on health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living, and social justice. Your ideas an …