The Food Drawing by Chrissie Orr and students Silver City, NM October 2006. In honor of all the hard working farmers that strive to provide local sustainable food production and remind us of our connection to the earth. All the materials emerged from the earth and now will return. The cycle continues, we are nourished and the land is nourished. The alchemical change, the re-emergence, which will sustain us again. The materials used were all gathered locally: Potatoes, corn, beans, amaranth, apples, quince, squash, jojoba, flour, calendula, echinacea, turmeric, chile, clay, wild seeds, wild sesame, pot shards, black walnuts, pecans, bread, russian sage, organic compost.
Lots of Life in One Place Permaculture Gardens and Bee Yard by Arina Pittman, in its 6th year of production include a working community of plants, animals and people.
Sam Knowlton giving a lecture on compost at 2009 Permaculture Design Course in Costa Rica
Teaching Team
Left to right: Scott Pittman, Larry Santoyo, Gino Antonio, Michael Reed, Chris Meuli & Mary Zemach
Scott Pittman, one of the foremost teachers of permaculture in the US, has taugth the subject extensively worldwide on four continents. He is the founder of the Permaculture Drylands Institute and co-founder of the Permaculture Credit Union. Scott co-taught with the founder of permaculture Bill Mollison, and helped to establish permaculture movement in the US Southwest. His experience includes working with indigenous and traditional people worldwide, design projects that range from backyards to thousand-acre farms and activism in promotion of sustainable living.
Larry Santoyo is an artist, land use planner and green business consultant. He is among the most experienced Permaculture Designers and Educators in the US and has taught environmental design at colleges and universities nationwide, including UC Berkeley and California State Polytechnic University. Larry is Director of EarthFlow Design Works,a community planning and design firm that integrates economic development strategies with ecological systems management.
Jen Zawacki has been empowering people to connect and participate in harmony with the world around them. Jen received degrees in Biology and Conservation from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As an educator her work and passion have taken her to the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, Australia, Central America, and
Thailand. Jen teaches Permaculture and works with communities, small scale farmers, and home owners to integrate Permaculture techniques on their properties. She makes her home in Santa Fe NM working with the soil one garden at a time.
Chris Meuli, M.D. was born and raised in New Mexico, became a Board Certified in Family Practice after graduating from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1977. The grandson of a conservationist rancher, he inherited the interest in the land which has led him to experiments with a wide variety of water harvesting techniques over the past 30 years on his homestead in Edgewood in the mountains east of Albuquerque. He helped found the Albuquerque Permaculture Guild and served on the Permaculture Drylands Board. He has written articles on the crenellated windbreak, the spreader drain, vertical sponges, design processes and pattern recognition.
Sam Knowlton is an ecological designer based in Santa Fe, NM. Sam practices and teaches permaculture in the Southwest U.S. and throughout Latin America. He runs Harmonic Ecological Design, a whole systems design firm developing regenerative land use systems. As a designer, teacher, and collaborator, Sam inspires people to understand and appreciate our role as the stewards of our communities.
