WS Sandbox

I am a landscape horticulturalist, permaculture consultant, designer, facilitator, and educator. I am currently working with public and private clients, with local high schools, and am an assistant teacher at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center's Permaculture Design Course. I strive to propel the understanding of whole-system ecology and integrated systems. My goal is to reconnect the human element as a positive accelerator and propagator of natural cycles. I am a naturalist, a constant student, and a 'specialized generalist' in training. I am an associate in a design firm with Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan, visit http://permacopiadesign.com to see some of our work. 

I hope to bring my knowledge and experience to help foster sustainable communities in areas of cultural and ecological conflict. It is no wonder to me that the degradation and mismanagement of soil is inextricably associated with the degradation and breakdown of a society or civilization.

I am also a paleotechnics enthusiast and a wilderness survivalist and tracker. In order to preserve the teachings, principles and methodologies of indigenous peoples, a responsibility to give it all back constantly lingers. A reverence must placed on all that we've borrowed or taken. In my work, I try to reintegrate these foundations that have been lost from modern education.