As the plants retreat into the underworld and we wrap up another season, our focus naturally shifts from the complex web of relationships that comprise the green world, to the curious continuum of human relationships that shape our culture and connect us to one another.

Over the years, through our work on the farm and within the fields of permaculture and ecological restoration, we’ve developed and refined an approach to landscape management that revolves around a deliberate process of encouragement and discouragement.