Ryan Rising

Ryan Rising is a community organizer and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network. After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the fall of 2014. Ryan has since co-organized over 80 Permaculture Action Days throughout 25 US states, bringing hundreds of people at a time to build greenhouses, rainwater catchment, gardens, and regenerative systems at 80 different local community projects including public food forests, urban farms, and ecovillages. Ryan co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually distributed for free all around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center. Ryan focuses on creating community access to land for local food growing and regenerative living, connecting people to take direct action; and social permaculture—the ways we make decisions, build resilience, resolve conflicts, and organize in community. ​

Permaculture Action Network

Permaculture Action Network is a continental collective that mobilizes thousands of people to take direct action on regenerative projects by collaborating with performing artists and cultural events. Our work regenerates ecosystems and catalyzes movement for a just transition, partnering with a diversity of projects and groups forging pathways to collective liberation.

We have mobilized people to action days from shows and festivals including those of Rising Appalachia, Beats Antique, Raury, Lightning in a Bottle, Envision Festival, TPA, ARISE, Lucidity, Summer Camp Music Festival, and others. Sonic Bloom is one of our absolute favorites.

Check out this report back from last year’s action day before the festival, “Establishing a Local Food Supply…With No Water: Year 4 of Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Days at District ONE Farms.”