Andrew Millison has been studying, designing, building, and teaching about Permaculture systems since 1996. He is an instructor in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University, teaching the Permaculture Design Certificate Course and the Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum. He has taught through other organizations including Prescott College, the Ecosa Institute, and the Cascadia Permaculture Institute. He instructs Advanced Permaculture Courses in Teaching, and has guest instructed for many Permaculture courses throughout the Western US. He worked for the State of Oregon creating a Permaculture conference and course for Oregon Housing and Community Services, the agency that builds low-income housing. He works with gardeners, developers, university students, and community organizers to promote Permaculture, which he believes is the medicine for Earth's ailments.
Andrew spent years running a design and build Permaculture landscape company, Millison Ecological Inc., where he completed large scale and high profile projects including rockstar Maynard Keenan’s Merkin Vineyard: (http://www.caduceus.org/, http://www.bloodintowine.com/ ), initiated the well-known Ecohood project: (http://www.motherearthliving.com/gardening/earthmoveraward-ecohood.aspx ), worked with ecological wastewater pioneer Dr. John Todd: (http://www.beaverstatepermaculture.com/video/ecomachine-1 ), and worked with Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan on heirloom fruit tree preservation to earn his Master’s degree: (http://www.nativeseeds.org/index.php/our-work/southwestregistree ). Andrew also worked as a draftsman and designer in an ecological Landscape Architecture office: (http://tbkadesign.com/design_team_millison.php ) where he completed designs at the commercial, municipal, and residential scales.
Andrew currently teaches, consults and designs Permaculture sites. His most recent designs are for a low-income senior housing development, 25 acre farm, 5 acre homestead, and his own urban homestead in Corvallis, Oregon. Documentation of his extensive portfolio of hands-on projects, design work, video production work and published articles can be viewed at www.beaverstatepermaculture.com.