Melanie Mindlin

Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion, and has been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Permaculture, including many advanced courses, for more than forty years. Hazel has developed numerous water systems for regional farms, and their work is documented in videos widely circulated by Andrew Millison. Their focus for the last decade has been Social Forestry, restoring Oak/Pine Savannah in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife support and desert forest water management.