The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia

I grew up in the suburbs of New England, Northeast US. Our first house was 3/4 of an acre with a large garden, and fruit trees, though I was too young to really appreciate it. We would walk down to the beach and collect fresh mussels for dinner and we canned and preserved what we grew from the garden. We moved into a bigger house with less land and a smaller garden. And my family has progressively reduced the amount of land with each subsequent home purchase. Which ironically coincided with my desire to have land.

C'est la vie

I studied design in college, and wilderness survival afterwards. The extreme contrast between modern life and wilderness survival brought me to permaculture as a hopeful happy medium. The greening the desert video led me to take my PDC with Geoff Lawton and I followed that with a 6 month internship on his farm in Australia. I then worked on PRI Jordan for 3 months. That gave me an appreciation for water I never had before.

Currently I am in New York City experimenting with rooftop gardening. It has a lot of interesting possibilities but not quite as satisfying as growing in the ground. I am looking into getting some land upstate but still deciding on the focus. Still on the fence I suppose and gathering the courage to jump off.