We are a teaching collective dedicated to bringing forth a balanced and integrated approach to permaculture. Our experience as mothers, gardeners, dancers, artists, and activists has shown us that permaculture is more than a design methodology, it is a way of life. Together, we are a dynamic team filled with grounded inspiration and a desire to positively influence our community.
We invite you to learn more about each of us and contact us directly.
We invite you to learn more about each of us and contact us directly.
Rachel Kaplan works alternately as a somatic psychotherapist, writer, teacher, permaculture designer, activist and mother. She and her family live and work on a small urban homestead in Petaluma, CA which they call Tiny Town Farm. She is a passionate advocate for the simple life, and the deep work of transition our culture currently faces. She has spent the last twenty-five years working with individuals and groups of people evolving strategies for personal and cultural regeneration.
She holds two Masters degrees, one in Multidisciplinary Art and the other in Counseling Psychology. She co-authored Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (with K. Ruby Blume), and writes frequently for local and national magazines and journals on the topics of sustainability and somatics. She can be found at www.urban-homesteading.org, and www.RachelKaplanMFT.net
She holds two Masters degrees, one in Multidisciplinary Art and the other in Counseling Psychology. She co-authored Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (with K. Ruby Blume), and writes frequently for local and national magazines and journals on the topics of sustainability and somatics. She can be found at www.urban-homesteading.org, and www.RachelKaplanMFT.net
Delia Carroll is a hardy pioneer species deeply rooted in the humus of Bay Area counterculture. She has a degree in the art of living and diverse skills within the business, artistic and familial realms. She is a devoted plant mistress, a high quality organizer and an agent for regenerative social systems.
In 2009 she completed both her PDC at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, http://www.oaec.org/, as well as her Permaculture Teachers Training at the Esalen Institute, http://www.esalen.org/, under the auspices of Kat Steele and Benjamin Farhrer. In the intervening 5 years, Delia has continued to hone her teaching skills, acting as Teachers Assistant for Kat Steele, Benjamin Farher and Michael Kramer, as well as teaching Practical Permaculture in Albany’s Edible Landscape, an 8-session hands-on class. She has exercised her organizational chops via planning and producing the 2012 and 2014 West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gatherings as well as creating the Village Commons at the 2013 Building Resilient Communities Convergence.
In 2009 she completed both her PDC at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, http://www.oaec.org/, as well as her Permaculture Teachers Training at the Esalen Institute, http://www.esalen.org/, under the auspices of Kat Steele and Benjamin Farhrer. In the intervening 5 years, Delia has continued to hone her teaching skills, acting as Teachers Assistant for Kat Steele, Benjamin Farher and Michael Kramer, as well as teaching Practical Permaculture in Albany’s Edible Landscape, an 8-session hands-on class. She has exercised her organizational chops via planning and producing the 2012 and 2014 West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gatherings as well as creating the Village Commons at the 2013 Building Resilient Communities Convergence.
Cassandra Ferrera is dedicated to restoring our relationships with each other in community and to restoring our relationship with the earth. She practices this by being a permacultural real estate agent who specializes in community building. Cassandra works with Green Key Real Estate www.greenkeyrealestate.com and co-developed a new vision for the first green real estate company in California.
Cassandra’s life has been deeply impacted by the dramatic onset of an auto-immune disease, which has completely revolutionized how she lives in her body and sustains her life. Having directly experienced disease born of human folly and healing born of nature, she is even more dedicated to weaving a world of vitality and regeneration. Cassandra received her PDC in 2009 at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and went on to train as a Permaculture Teacher at Esalen Institute in 2012. Cassandra also received training as a natural chef from Bauman College and an ayurvedic yoga teacher through the dhyana Center. Self taught student of astrology for 25 years, she created Cycle Wisdom Astrology during her Saturn return in 2000 and has been doing professional readings ever since. Cassandra settled in Sonoma County in 2002 and now lives in a micro village with her awesome husband, two strong willed kids, and two lovely neighboring families. She is committed to living the experiment of land based community and sharing resources with others.
Cassandra’s life has been deeply impacted by the dramatic onset of an auto-immune disease, which has completely revolutionized how she lives in her body and sustains her life. Having directly experienced disease born of human folly and healing born of nature, she is even more dedicated to weaving a world of vitality and regeneration. Cassandra received her PDC in 2009 at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and went on to train as a Permaculture Teacher at Esalen Institute in 2012. Cassandra also received training as a natural chef from Bauman College and an ayurvedic yoga teacher through the dhyana Center. Self taught student of astrology for 25 years, she created Cycle Wisdom Astrology during her Saturn return in 2000 and has been doing professional readings ever since. Cassandra settled in Sonoma County in 2002 and now lives in a micro village with her awesome husband, two strong willed kids, and two lovely neighboring families. She is committed to living the experiment of land based community and sharing resources with others.
Kyra Auerbach, MA Somatics, MBA Sustainable Enterprise (GreenMBA), has spent more than twenty years working and playing with personal, professional, and corporate sustainability optimization, integrative earth-&-body based education, ecological & social advocacy.
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