Explore the design game Adapt! This new and exciting tool encourages, supports, and guides us through applying a holistic design process to create the world of our dreams.

Through play we ask productive and practical questions that will lead us towards increased care awareness and implementable solutions.

Explorer, designer, and educator Bridget O’Brien will guide you through this journey. She specializes in Permaculture-based regenerative land use, social structure, and self-care design workshops and coaching, and is the creative developer of the design game called Adapt.

This workshop will present you with a collection of beautiful and tasty plants that can be designed into your existing or future landscape plantings. We will explore the uses of these plants, aside from their beauty, while visioning together to dream up a delightful design.

Attendees are encouraged to bring photos, sketches & maps of the land they are stewarding.

Explorer, designer, and educator Bridget O’Brien will guide you through this journey. She specializes in Permaculture-based regenerative land-use, social-structure & self-care design workshops & coaching and is the creative developer of "Adapt," a design game.

How do you to apply food growing, composting, wildlife conservation, and other land care practices to your own place?

With information at our fingertips and advice around every corner it hard to know what the best practices are to care for the land you have. We will examine natural systems and appropriate technology to combine forces for ease of care and maximum enjoyment of the bounty on offer in your back yard.

Explorer, designer and educator Bridget O’Brien will guide you through this journey. She specializes in Permaculture-based regenerative land-use, social-structure & self-care design, workshops & coaching and is the creative developer of ‘Adapt,’ a design game.

In this current crazy late capitalist time it has almost become radical to live life centered around principles and practices of care - cares for health of self, community, and planet.

This interactive workshop will identify and build participants’ own self-care and land-care practices as we explore the vitally important work of co-healing people and planet.

Explorer, designer, and educator Bridget O’Brien will guide you through this journey. She specializes in Permaculture-based regenerative Land Use, Social Structure & Self-Care design, workshops & coaching and is the creative developer of Adapt, a design game.

Native plant landscapes can range from formal to informal while being beautiful and supporting wildlife.

This conversation will be guided by drawings and pictures of native landscapes to identify tips and pointers for design success.

Drew Lathin, general manager of Creating Sustainable Landscapes, LLC, works to create ecologically restorative landscapes for residential, commercial and public spaces by utilizing native plants.

Come to the Library to think about what goes into planning and construction of a city or town, then design and build your own tiny city in a shoebox!

As the world starts to warm and spring to life, it's a great time to put out a feast for the songbirds!

Bring the entire family and join us as we use a cardboard tube, vegetable shortening, and birdseed to create a hanging feeder complete with a resting ledge for little bird feet!

Due to circumstances beyond our control, this 'Building Matters' lecture has been cancelled.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to reschedule at a future date.

Join the conversation about sustainability in Ann Arbor as the City and the Ann Arbor District Library host their annual Sustainable Ann Arbor series. The series of four events (held monthly through April) each focused on a different element of sustainability from Ann Arbor’s Sustainability Framework.

The final event in this series is Grow Your Own. Local gardening experts share tips and tricks to help you grow your own fruits, veggies, flowers, and more. Panelists include:

Jason Frenzel, Ann Arbor City Councilmember
Monica Milla, Master Gardener
Drew Lathin, General Manager of Creating Sustainable Landscapes, LLC
Caitlyn Dickinson, Biodynamic Beekeeper
Emily Springfield, Founder of Preserving Traditions

The forums offer an opportunity to learn more about sustainability in the community and tips for actions that residents can take to live more sustainably. A think tank of local stakeholders including representatives from community organizations, and staff from both the City of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County will join the public to discuss local sustainability efforts and challenges in our community.
Each program will include a series of short presentations followed by a question and answer session. Speakers for this session are to be announced.

This event is cosponsored by the City of Ann Arbor and details of the series will be posted online on The City of Ann Arbor's Sustainability site. For information and videos from current and past Sustainable Ann Arbor Forums, please visit the City’s Sustainability website.