My interest in permaculture is recent, though it seems as though my career choices have led me to this point all on its own.

I started off with a certificate in landscape and horticulture that was offered by the provincial community college. I worked in the Landscape industry, learning how to build hardscape and softscape features and how to 'maintain' them commercially. After relentless attempts to broaden my scope of work within the landscape industry, i moved to BC to attempt Gardening in a Modified Mediterranean climate. Victoria BC. There i fell in love with the old growth forests and became obsessed with the large trees. I found work with two of the largest arboriculture business in north america, the Bartlett Tree Experts, and The Davey Tree experts. I became an ISA Certified Arborist and again dove into the realm of "old Growth" mechanics. After learning about the above ground processes of the plant world, i began to look at how these massive trees could lock up that much carbon in such a few years. This is where i started looking at relationships between the trees, the fungi(in BC there is a lot of fungi) and bacterial. Again this led me to the discovery of the soil food web and through my exploration in that discovered Masanobu Fukuoka, Bill Mollison, Robert Hart, and last but certainly not least, Sepp Holzer.