There is a particular kind of person who thrives in permaculture spaces. You probably know the type. Deeply read. Internally motivated. The kind of person who watches a three-hour lecture on soil biology on a Friday night and calls it a good time. Who builds a composting system from scratch because they read about it once and figured it out. Who can hold the whole design of a food forest in their head — the guilds, the zones, the succession plan, the water harvesting — and fe

On naming your land, knowing who it’s for, and the small ritual that change everything. Most gardeners, if you ask them why they garden, will tell you about the food. About knowing where it comes from. About the kids eating something they grew themselves. About not trusting the grocery store. These are real reasons and they are enough. But if you watch someone who has been doing this a long time — someone who has been in the same soil for a decade or more — you start to notic

A friend was trying to explain what I do to someone and said something that stuck with me: “She’s on a mission to get rid of everyone’s...