One of my greatest joys in life is being able to walk out into my garden and pick/gather dinner.

I have a blog, which has been dormant for a while but I need to start writing on again, where I ramble on about various happenings at our home — Three Pea Homestead. On those pages I hope to share with you my ideas about permaculture, modern homesteading, natural resource conservation and related topics, along with ramblings about day-to-day life and the fur family. If you're interested you can find it's at: http://threepeapermaculture.wordpress.com

I originally hail from the magical, mystical Alaska and now find myself hanging around the Fort Worth, Texas area (by way of Ireland, back to Alaska, Wisconsin, California and London – nope, not an “Army Brat”). My love for the natural world and sustainable food production was born from my early childhood in Alaska where I vividly remember early morning fishing with dad, foraging for berries and wild rosehips, collecting eggs with my little sand castle bucket and picking berries, carrots, peas, etc, from the garden and eating them on the spot; all while wearing a pair of wellies that were nearly as tall as I was!

My intellectual heroes include Wes Jackson, Wendall Berry and Gary Nabhan to name just a very few.

As for my bona fides, I’m one of the over educated — having earned both my undergrad and masters degrees in Environmental Studies/Management. After being an arm-chair gardener for many years we finally got our own 1.3 acre piece of paradise/ personal research station with our move to Texas and I quickly became completely addicted to the actual doing of the “modern homesteading” thing that I’d been studying and dreaming about for years. In 2009 I had the privilege to earn my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) studying with Drs. Victor and Mai Philips (their teacher registration can be found: http://www.tagari.com/courses/teacherRegisterInformation/teacher_list).