The skills I share with my clients are unique
- The Rogue Valley has been my home for the past 26 years. I understand the climate here. Throughout the years, I have seen what works and doesn’t work here. I also have a wealth of contacts to put you in touch with and where to resource local materials .
- I have supported myself as a biodynamic farmer, living a homesteading lifestyle, offering real life-permaculture education to the public, producing seed crops and market produce, planted orchards and food forests and pollinator habitats, raised many animals and a couple farm raised human babies.
- I have spent my whole life working with plants. outside. Over the years, of being outside, tending gardens, I have developed a keen ability to “read the landscape,” bringing forth the story of a place and see the potential possibilities.
- I listen to my clients and the land. I can meet you at whatever level of experience you are at. I am excited to help you get out there and connect with the earth.
- I have perfected the art of eating home-grown food year ’round in the siskiyou climate
- I delight in bringing back depleted landscapes to beautiful thriving vitality. When I work I combine beauty and practicality with the grace of a feminine touch.
My work is inspired by my Love of Nature
I am one of those rare people who have actually lived permaculture, the “on the ground, hands dirty” kind of permaculture, not so much the classroom style.
My textbooks have been watching the seasons, making mistakes and harvesting many lessons from life. Mother nature is my teacher.
In 1995, I co-created Seven Seeds Farm in Williams, Oregon with my former husband. Together we turned a dilapidated homestead into a thriving example of Permaculture In Action.
Seven Seeds Farm is a unique combination of a permaculture demonstration site, seed business, a profitable, biodynamic farm and a renowned internship program. Seven Seeds is a hub for hands-on educational opportunities, farm tours, and community events.
I have been out there “doing it”… in the rain fixing ditches, thigh deep in a frozen creek to fix the water line, slug hunting in the dark by headlamp, midwifing our sheep, dancing with corn, toting our wares to the farmers market, grazing on fresh picked food for lunch, chasing ducks out of the kale, saving the peaches from the possums and finding new ways to at frozen potatoes.
