The Values That Root Us.

Our work stems from the principles of Permaculture, a term first used by Bill Mollison to describe a design system that addresses some of our Earth’s most pressing challenges: loss of topsoils, mass extinctions leading to a decrease in biodiversity, climate change, an increasing lack of clean water. Permaculture as a design system rests firmly on the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of indigenous peoples throughout the world, gained over millenia through careful observation of their environment and a deep, mutually reciprocal relationship with place.  Permaculture combines TEK with modern science and technology, making a design system that utilizes nature’s unchanging best practices and appropriate technology for our current context.  As a philosophy, Permaculture is based in a simple code of Ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share. Simply put, every action we take should put the care of the Earth as a top priority, without which there would be no Life as we know it.  From there, we move to care of people, which emphasizes humans’ needs and desires, as well as incorporates the final priority, an equitable distribution of surplus and abundance to all people. 

  • Resilience

    The capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties. Here at Resilience Land Tending, our goal is to create and recover gardens, landscapes, and wilder spaces that are capable of standing up to stress, healing themselves from disease, sourcing all their needs from within. More than just sustaining, we aim to build health. Through nature connection and deepening our relationship to the living beings and places around us, we grow more resilient in ourselves. By sharing our abundance and being conscious of systems of oppression within society, we aim to create resilient communities, and rippling out from there, a resilient world.

  • Land

    Our current base of work resides in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Miwok, living and deceased.

    Because of their dedicated tending to this land through millenia, we are blessed to be in relationship with Oak, Bay, Madrone, Salmon, Elk, Bear, and Coyote, Red-Tailed Hawk, Paintbrush, rolling hills, streams and rivers, Redwood forests, and the beautiful coastline of what is now known as Marin County.

    For more information on the Coast Miwok and to research and support their efforts in self determination

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  • Tending

    Kat Anderson, in her book Tending The Wild, articulates her use of the word Tending, which stems from the Latin word tendere and translates to the English word tension. After 20 years of researching California indigenous peoples’ relationship to and use of the plants on which they relied, Anderson recognizes a central principle underlying much of the indigenous relationship to the Earth: humans are not inherently a detriment to this Earth; we do in fact have a place within the web of Life here; and, through our stewardship and tending of the land, we are applying tension to the wild, and, like tuning a guitar string, we have the potential to add more health and resilience to our home.

Justice and Equity

Recognizing that we work on the traditional lands of the Coast Miwok people, and in immense gratitude for the opportunity to make this place our home, we aim to donate a percentage of yearly profits to the self-determining efforts of the Coast Miwok.

Recognizing that our current positional power and privilege within society has been uplifted and maintained through a variety of systems of oppression (all the -isms), and recognizing that People Care and Fair Share make up two of our three main ethics, we strive to do our part, through our work, to balance the power dynamics and redistribute wealth and abundance.

The first way that we strive to do this is through our sliding scale payment options, which charge more from those who can afford it, and less from those who can’t. Please reach out about what options are available to you as a potential client.

The second way we aim for justice and equity in our work is through making our educational offerings as accessible as possible, both in terms of cost, and in the ways we create a safe and brave space for the diverse participants we hope to be in community with.

The third way we aim for sharing abundance is through continued self-reflection and education, always striving to learn more about how we can be better humans to those around us, in our words, in our thoughts, in our hearts.