I am a student of nature and a teacher of gardening and Permaculture. I live in a very interesting micro-climate on one of the barrier islands on the Eastern (Space Coast) in Florida, where the sea and the Indian River Lagoon help to buffer us from the cold, giving us a climate more akin to the more tropical conditions of South Florida. I have been a Permaculture designer for two years. I have a knowledge of wild edibles and prolific perennial plants that grow well in Central Florida. I have employed many soil building, and compost techniques to build up good crumbly living dirt, from our hydrophobic sand.