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Agents of Habitat: Lesson 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/blog/agentsofhabitat monthly 0.5 2021-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620681378997-CD8YFGJBU62AODUUMMO2/Crop+Mob_0.jpg David's Blog - Synopsis: Agents of Habitat - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/home daily 1.0 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1628345650102-85872CL1WZIJXTTZSJ8I/Alice+2.JPG Home This garden is built from yard waste. It is the logs, sticks, wood chips and chicken bedding often sent to the landfill. We do no tilling and no composting. We treat no insect as a pest and no plant as a weed. The total area of this garden is 250 square feet. It produces an annual harvest of grapes, lettuce, mallow, lambsquarter, purslane, tomatoes, beans, turnips, chard, potatoes and pumpkins. All we do is plant and harvest. This is an example of healing our relationships with the living things around us. The many pages of this web site will introduce you to all the other ways of healing we explore at the Living Systems Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1aa4814f-6ce9-4486-b442-88f54e0c56f8/Screen+Shot.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/f3c37c6f-a5ce-4286-a77e-5fa8a818f6c3/Book+Cover+scaled.jpg Home - This book is part cook-book, part instruction manual for living lightly on the Earth and part whimsical expression of ways to live a connected life! There is much to be learned here from simple elegant recipes to ways to gently change our minds and ways of interacting with the world to be more in harmony with how the world works outside of human structures. And, that’s just the beginning! David’s writing flows like a stream bubbling over rocks and the wind blowing through the trees and can be enjoyed repeatedly like a favorite piece of music. - Peter Kindfield, Ph.D. Co-Director, Hilltop Education Connections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620673556004-YS7B6Z3KIT40RPL3DW6B/ftb6.jpg Home - The Reinhabit Cooperative Our newest and biggest initiative, The Reinhabit Cooperative Project is designed to rebuild habitat on residential properties through affordable regenerative landscaping services. In doing so, we will also create green jobs for local gardeners; educate both our gardeners and clientele on how to live a truly sustainable life at home that works with nature; help our clients save on much more expensive conventional landscaping maintenance; generate opportunities and awareness for food justice and independence and wildlife habitat (especially pollinators!); and strengthen communities through a partnership to improve our shared environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620687144481-04HRPBEMPN6S3JNTKSH0/The+Flock.jpg Home Growing Our Own: More than a Lifestyle Choice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/e6559040-13bc-4b72-b12b-5ef0a4657bd9/Back+Yard.JPG Home To Reinhabit Our Place in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625774243974-9GN74Y31CNMVYQPODJRX/Alice+8-31+1.JPG Home 20 Years Unlearning to Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1628369263854-O3106WPPD9I81SYLCWZB/Extreme+Gardening.JPG Home The Reinhabit Cooperative: Orientations If you are a homeowner interested in hiring one of our gardeners, or someone who is looking for a way to have access to land to garden, contact us to arrange for an orientation to our Reinhabit cooperative project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620687319388-DEUANE4OYC8OT09RA5AC/JB+and+Alice+big.JPG Home Schedule a Tour of Living Systems Institute Experience our proof of concept to understand how simple and practical it is to live integrated with the natural systems around us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620687353192-Q3FR3OE36DB7OF9199P7/FTG+Just+Finished.JPG Home Join the Greater Denver Urban Homesteading Group This is a place to meet other locals interested in urban homesteading skills like gardening, food preservation, alternative energy, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1613081871141-97INXBFIR67P6TS0TSTJ/Screen+Shot+2021-02-11+at+3.17.30+PM.png Home https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/our-offerings daily 0.75 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620687825034-6S6W701GCW6T3B9M1L94/ftb6.jpg Our Offerings - Reinhabit Cooperative Connecting people practicing regenerative gardening with homeowners who do not have the time or skill to build a regenerative landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626639605661-DLQH20DFE1ZZD2JLEFBA/BeeSafe+Logo.jpg Our Offerings - Bee Safe Neighborhoods One of the best ways to motivate you neighbors to begin the process of healing nature is to talk to them about the plight of the pollinators. Even the most committed user of poisons understands the need for pollinators. Get 75 contiguous homeowners to pledge to stop using systemic poisons and become a Bee Safe Neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626728518421-77L4C0SL67NPH2TDLBZF/Gates+6+6-18.JPG Our Offerings - Neighborhood Nurseries The front range of Colorado is a unique climate. We begin to heal nature as we select for genetic diversity among plants specifically adapted to this place. We do this by collecting seeds from plants that thrive here and taking cuttings and divisions of plants that thrive here. This saves money for every member of our community cooperating in this task. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620687752648-VK04OVASDHDJPKJD4Z5K/JB+and+Alice+big-sm.jpg Our Offerings - Property Tours The Living Systems Institute is centered on 1.3 acres east of Golden, Colorado. 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By arranging plants that work together into guilds, we create beautiful landscapes that feature long term fertility, low maintenance, flowers for bees, and fruit for people. Such a plant propagation cooperative can work in support of the Bee Safe Neighborhood project, which is creating groups of neighbors working together to improve the habitat in their neighborhood.All you need is a group of people who plant and grow out the plant species that fit into backyard habitats. We select seeds from plants that have done well in this climate and cuttings and divisions from plants that have done well here. Compared to buying our plants from a breeder, we are increasing the genetic diversity of our landscape. A genetically diverse landscape can more easily respond to environmental changes. All it takes is someone with space to keep the plants watered until they are ready to be used. It helps if the space is at least partially shaded. Then, when a cooperative member is thinning out plants, they pot up a few and bring them to the nursery. In our cooperative, our norm is “bring two of what you have and receive one of what you need” from the nursery. This way, the more the nursery is used, the more it grows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626641658134-OI0UYPNQH8SZA5LMKT83/Forest+Island.jpg HP3C - A Cooperative Business Growing Plants It would also be possible to set up the cooperative as a business. By arranging plants that work together into guilds we create beautiful landscapes that feature long term fertility, low maintenance, flowers for bees and fruit for people. The cooperative could be included as a function within the Reinhabit Cooperative, or work in support of the Bee Safe Neighborhood project which is creating groups of neighbors working together to improve the habitat in their neighborhood. The core of the cooperative is a group of people who plant and grow out specific desirable plants and select for the genetics that do well in this climate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620685946281-THIE3G21EKTNESCITHVE/Seed+Saving.jpg HP3C - Seed Saving and Line Breeding One of nature's key strategies to respond to environmental change is maintaining the genetic diversity of the ecosystem. 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I feel you have so much knowledge and you explain it with ease and on a level someone that doesn't know anything about living system can learn. I tell people about you all the time and would love to come back for more of your meetings." KH ". . . it was a great hands-on experience! The best way you learn is to try it out yourself and experience it. I appreciated being able to put into practice concepts I had read about in books and discussed with other enthusiasts but did not feel confident jumping in and doing it myself. It was definitely encouraging to see how LSI was applying regenerative principles and how I could do the same in my life." CD https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/our-vision daily 0.75 2021-08-08 https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/bee-safe-neighborhoods daily 0.75 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1624138653936-L71E4A0NXWB4KTMLHHMC/BeeSafe+Logo.jpg Bee Safe Neighborhoods " . . . my involvement with Bee Safe Neighborhoods has been nothing short of transformative. We are elated that we were successful in turning Normal Park, Ypsilanti into the first Bee Safe Neighborhood in Michigan and we have already been invited to canvass an adjacent neighborhood. So onto the next journey. I wonder what it will bring?" Melissa Sklar, Bee Safe Normal Park, Ypsilanti, Michigan "We were so fortunate that everyone from the Normal Park neighborhood were open to knowing and learning more and having honest discussion about the issues surrounding the use of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides. No door was shut in our face, thus our morale never waivered and our committment only strengthened. This journey has also shown me how much the power of grassroots activism can impact a neighborhood, community, and beyond." 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Melody/Catalpa Neighborhood, Boulder, CO 174 pledges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1624831393447-SAIP9CGO92G15UQ4KJ1N/Clifton.jpg Honor Roll 3. Clifton/Farifax Station Neighborhood, Clifton, VA 81 pledges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625084247862-TSHJO5WOSGB7YB0476Z8/Kendall.jpg Honor Roll 4. Kendall/Endicott Neighborhood, Boulder, CO 91 pledges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625084738872-HQOGV32FXW67FRX8UUC5/Crescent+.jpg Honor Roll 5. East Foothills -Crescent Neighborhood, Boulder, CO 96 pledges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625084890846-HCX1840R5EV958RT63LY/Yipsilanti.jpg Honor Roll 6. Normal Park, Ypsilanti, MI 120 Pledges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625085064103-1XZWF2WAT85KSB1EPGD2/Wurster.jpg Honor Roll 8. Wurster Park, Ann Arbor, MI 136 Pledges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625085235788-2W4DIB88VCCA7TEFL0II/First+Pres.jpg Honor Roll 1. First Presbyterian Church of Boulder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625085342774-C1K6POQMBXIZHIZNS0CU/Mapleton.jpg Honor Roll 2. Mapleton Montessori School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625085481362-ZRYN59NCH9Z8QCAJZM0H/First+Congregational.jpg Honor Roll 3. First Congregational Church of Boulder https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/bee-safe-coordinators daily 0.75 2021-08-29 https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/canvassing-materials-1 daily 0.75 2021-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625087232563-JGYBH0ILI1G12SNH5L1R/BeeSafe+Logo.jpg Canvassing Materials - YARD SIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625087605109-NTIQNYKD493IB072RQJI/Bee+Card+Front.jpg Canvassing Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625087714658-P38OTSP55M3PZ7KQKIJO/Bee+Card+Back.jpg Canvassing Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625088272455-0KHADSV2UOQ3NSSFLR6K/Door+Hanger+Front.jpg Canvassing Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1625088364766-VT7G4WI2R00ZGID6QUB6/Door+Hanger+Back.jpg Canvassing Materials https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/seeing-in-new-ways daily 0.75 2021-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620689000924-F6NOLZ8M06J15UAB742I/JB+and+Alice+big-sm.jpg Seeing in New Ways - Principles of Practical Holism Understanding that we are interconnected within a complex pattern of interactions of living things, how can we grasp our power to move the pattern in desirable directions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1624483163914-J9CLEW3EIS75JOTXF5UQ/Pumpkin.jpg Seeing in New Ways - Community Sufficiency Technologies The know how to organize ourselves to provide for ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1620681157435-K00ZHEQC869RJGPLWQLA/Rabbit+Brush.jpg Seeing in New Ways - Paradigm Shift On the day after the paradigm shift you will be a part of a single pattern built up from the individual interactions of all the living things around you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626986937676-0SSJNGPZEZYQTZTY1IKN/Seasonal+Eating.JPG Seeing in New Ways - How the Cook and the Gardener Saved the World This series of blogs formed the basis for our Reinhabit Cooperative project. Understand how the ideas developed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626986483701-RQTP1MW8LFWQBQAH977R/DPG1.jpg Seeing in New Ways - Allegory of the Three Travellers Left and Right no longer describes our political divisions. There are really three points of view and all three of them prevent us from working together to create the kind of world we want. Healing nature and producing abundance will require us to understand this dynamic of the human condition. https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/deep-mulch-gardening daily 0.75 2021-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626121027096-8P9GODXKG3QBL038KFBO/Feverfew+and+Grapes.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening - Deep Mulch Gardens Regenerate your Landscape Regenerative landscaping is a radical departure from traditional suburban lawns. Our goal is to create the conditions in which a landscape can evolve. More than anything else, this requires us to let nature do the work. You will hear a lot of opinions on what a garden requires. Many of the things suggested serve to repair the damage done by other practices that interfere with nature doing her work such as tilling and using poisons. First ask why? The garden in the picture requires no tilling nor any composting. We have not done a soil test. We treat no insect as a pest and no plant as a weed. Before we decide to do something let's try doing nothing first and see how that works. There still are things we can do to take a typical suburban lawn and convert it to a habitat for a healthy soil ecosystem. These processes eliminate the need to fertilize the lawn, mow the lawn, use herbicide or insecticides on the lawn, and reduce the need to water the lawn. We are simply taking the excess organic matter produced in that space and placing it in a way to be used by the soil ecosystem. That can save a homeowner money and time even after paying a gardener to help them in the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626121410208-SC7BYV94BPYZJ2OJUGUV/Cardboard+3.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening The first step in the process is a reset. We begin with a yard and the plants already growing in the yard. We may prefer to replace the grass and suppress plants like bind weed and thistle. For this purpose we use a layer of cardboard and newspaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626121562197-QFFSS9X4HKZH2KSZ3LNA/Logs+4.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening The first choice for materials to feed our new ecosystem are materials generated on site. The picture is logs from trees that died on the property but all available organic matter grown on the property can be cycled into these gardens. The second choice is materials retrieved from the waste streams headed to the landfills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626121715862-KQIX34L69W2ADJ60CBE7/Fill+the+Gaps+2.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening The next step is to create a habitat for the fungi and bacteria that will feed our plants. These organisms evolved on the forest floor and undisturbed grass lands. They cannot exist without soil organic matter. A typical lawn has not been allowed to build up the required carbon in the soil. Without the required soil carbon we will not have the fungi and bacteria that consume the compounds exuded through plant roots and then, in turn, produce plant food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626122113219-9XNHRG7Y317WPREO2GTA/First+Layer+Done+2.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening Here we have filled all the air space between the logs. The fungi and bacteria we want need the wood to stay reasonably moist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626122225902-IS3XIDJ772R3AEKWTV4J/Sticks+2.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening The bottom layer of logs is known as hugelkultur. (German for hill or mound culture). If you do not have logs use the sticks from pruning your trees and bushes and those that broke off in the snow and wind. If you do not have sticks then start with what ever organic waste you have and bury them in leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626122414260-Q6DA84WJ7U2BD8QVJDGZ/Final+Layer+5.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening These beds will hold water much better than a lawn and therefor will require substantially less water. I like to use a drip system but they can be adjusted to fit into any other watering system the homeowner desires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626122789882-6PLH5NXKRZ621H4T0IBU/Fruit+Tree+Guild.JPG Deep Mulch Gardening This perennial planting is built with the same techniques as the vegetable garden shown in the other pictures. We want to create beautiful space where people enjoy being. We also want to create a variety of habitats. Each homeowner can pick and choose from flowers and shrubs, medicinal or culinary herbs, pollinator gardens, and/or vegetable gardens. All of these plants benefit from participating in a healthy soil ecosystem and a variety of plants provides spaces for all the insects and birds that will balance the ecosystem of the property. https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/thank-you daily 0.75 2021-07-17 https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/integrated-closed-loop-production daily 0.75 2021-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1628452240711-N1798K1VTSDAGFM19MX6/FC+2+and+Coop.jpg Integrated Closed Loop Production - Unheated greenhouse and Chicken Coop In this diagram the greenhouse structure is sized to fit a 275 gallon IBC tank that will provide sufficient thermal mass to eliminated the need to heat the space. The front panel is 50 sq ft and covered with a double layer of greenhouse plastic. Inside is a 4’ x 10’ wicking bed. Water is pumped from a reservoir at the base of the bed into the large tank which then over flows into the wicking bed. The water runs through the wicking bed and back to the reservoir. The wicking bed is filled with wood chips and chicken bedding just as in our deep mulch gardens. The chicken coop shown in the diagram is sufficient for 6 - 16 chickens depending on the outdoor run space available. It is also possible to raise fish in the large tank. The flow of water through the wicking bed will remove nitrates from the fish waste and the returning water will be clean. With this set up we can produce protein and fresh vegetables year round. https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/carbon-cycling-certification daily 0.75 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626044546267-ONT4A5VYX0C7W6E6GQ49/ftb6.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626044833127-QPKHF6B5OUUAK60NFT02/Regis%2BSpring.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/3aadd862-3afa-4fbf-b93c-f4828205b86d/20240328_131040.jpg https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/regenerative-leadership daily 0.75 2023-03-31 https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/newsletter daily 0.75 2025-08-02 https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/support-lsi daily 0.75 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/6956941e-32d0-4add-927b-0798de3b71f4/7-21.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/4b117f54-d3fd-4bf7-b353-30f0d7f46ca5/20240328_131040.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1630503551225-4YTHG28PARJUTSDEA1TH/Alice+2.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1626986483701-RQTP1MW8LFWQBQAH977R/DPG1.jpg https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/four-seasons-gardening daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/b0d33e66-8731-4afb-ad2f-6338b7468b03/20231228_124509.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/bcce169b-9939-4e6f-aee1-a76de87fdfa7/20200807_110704.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/3030ed66-2b86-45b7-a193-2149656db148/20200126_135013.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/a08581ff-e5bd-43fe-a685-ed55a9f24b84/PXL_20240601_201321180+%281%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/f50cd0eb-288d-45d8-8cbd-1951aacb092d/PXL_20240929_190409857.MP.jpg https://www.livingsystemsinst.org/field-trips daily 0.75 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/3c9941a9-e81d-42d9-8615-3dac56c1831a/field-trip.jpg Field Trips at LSI - What is LSI? Living Systems Institute (LSI) is a 501c3 nonprofit permaculture homestead and educational site located in Golden, Colorado, across from Applewood Golf Course. This land has been stewarded by David Braden and his family for generations. In 2013, David founded LSI to promote education about people’s places in the living systems we’re a part of. Since then we have taught several hundred people everything from our deep mulch all organic gardening method to beekeeping to chickens to soil stewardship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/616839e4-b8c4-4c44-b3dc-a47a6268ebcb/field-trip-2.jpg Field Trips at LSI - What makes LSI a field trip destination? Large trees and traditional hayfields, preserved for 70+ years Numerous deep mulch garden beds, growing a variety of produce and herbs Full life-cycle chickens operations - we breed, raise, house, and cull chickens year round Operating greenhouse with a passive watering system, growing greens and herbs Wildlife habitat - we have a diversity of birds, garden snakes, insects, and more! We have a combined ~20 years of experience teaching youth concepts of carbon cycling, soil stewardship, “closed loop” gardening, fostering habitat for wildlife, and more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/ba55db5d-792a-4054-bfcf-88af9999f161/aquaponic-system.jpg Field Trips at LSI - LSI is perfect for reinforcing studies Earth sciences Permaculture and sustainability Gardening and landscaping Homesteading & “closed loop” production systems Human participation in nature / ecosystems How to contribute to a more sustainable world through local action https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60149f249ce78d4e543e05ef/1613081871141-97INXBFIR67P6TS0TSTJ/Screen+Shot+2021-02-11+at+3.17.30+PM.png Field Trips at LSI