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Tamara O’Brien
Tamara O'Brien Board Member Pennsylvania Tamara O’Brien is permaculture and native garden designer. She does consulting work where she fills many roles: garden facilitator, teacher, ecorestoration consultant, grant reviewer, mentor, coach and pollinator...
Gabriella Taylor
Gabriella Taylor Board Member California Gabriella Taylor, M.A., is a speaker, trauma-informed leadership mentor, and ordained minister—and the founder of Extraordinary Woman, a global movement transforming how women lead, live, and love. She specializes in the...
Lindsay Brandon
Lindsay Bandon Board Member Alberta Lindsay is CEO of Permaculture Canada & Armagarden and a certified Permaculture Design Consultant. She leads a diverse team of designers, dedicated to establishing and promoting excellence in permaculture design. Her work...
The One- Straw Revolution Review by Darrell Frey
The One-Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka, Rodale Press, 1978 The One-Straw Revolution is a collection of essays written by the author over a period of years, detailing both his methods of natural farming and his ideas of healthful living and land stewardship. These...
Rebeca Rubalcava
Rebeca RubalcavaMember Services ManagerGeorgia Rebeca Rubalcava, Membership Coordinator, joined PINA in April 2023, bringing with her over 9 years of administrative and event planning experience from Healthcare and Higher Education. After being diagnosed with a...
Salina Duncan
Salina DuncanBoard MemberGuatemala Salina is a community health educator with a focus on sharing local nutritious food and nature-based experiences with youth. Salina lived and worked in Guatemala for 10 years, providing access to education and health resources in...
Matt Bibeau
Matt BibeauBoard MemberOregon Matt has worked in the field of garden-based education since 2005. A graduate of Portland State University’s Leadership in Ecology, Culture & Learning program, Matt’s work has focused on the development and implementation of school...
Patterns in Permaculture
Understanding nature’s patterns within a specific landscape gives a framework for sustainable permaculture design. Permaculture is a philosophy not only for agriculture but to human interaction with nature. Its focus is to work with its natural systems and or build...
Permaculture Principles
Permaculture is built on the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share, and is practically applied through 12 different principles. These principles provide the outline for which to begin and continue permaculture as a system and lifestyle to work with nature...
Permaculture Ethics
Permaculture design has the power to influence every aspect of design, whether that be construction or reforestation approaches; community development, or urban planning. It reaches far beyond agriculture and considers the long-term effects on the planet, on people,...