I have been growning green since my first garden at 7000ft in the Sierras in 1972.   Every year except 2.  One year I was sailing down in Baja....observing how the people there live with their resourcces.  Another year I was in Hawaii with no place to grow, and having one wonderful time with the fishes.  

For the last 8 years I have had a landscaping business working mainly with the accepted "ornamental" landscape introducing habitat and drought resistant plants.  During that time I was living in community and the chosen "garden keeper".  Here I was able to incorporate more permaculture design ideas and grow more, and better, vegetables! 
My current endeavor is to grow community through the creation of Neighborhood Shared Gardens.  My plan is simple and will encourage each "neighbor" to grow small garden beds and share their harvest with their neighbors at gatherings which will provide further education in how to grow, eat, preserve, and save seeds, from what they have grown.  My intention comes from the belief that when people grow something, no matter how small, and are able to attend to gardens, the process will reconnect them with the Mother and move them towards a conscious awareness of the affect and benefit of their interaction.  In this, they will become more "tender" toward what gives them sustinance......and each other.
In the process of this creation I have entered a web of exciting transitional energy of this kind of work.  We are all doing such wonderful work in small pockets everywhere, and the pockets are coming closer together through the intense effort to reach out.