Welcome Our Newest Customers!
We've been blessed to start work with two new customers that will provide long term opportunities for our business.
In December, Graham completed a site visit to two new health care facilities for Bowen Health in northern Indiana. With a sincere interest in supporting their local communities in Wabash and Huntington, they are including permaculture gardens, food forests and greenhouses on the grounds of these two new properties; all aimed at providing food for the local community and an educational center in the greenhouses for teaching courses on health, nutrition and food preparation and preserving. We've started the first phases of design work which will be completed by spring and with the intent to turn dirt on the landscape installation around the time of the grand opening of these facilities.
We're equally blessed to be starting work on our first projects with the Kwiakah First Nation in British Columbia. As they are going through the process of obtaining access to new lands that are part of their historical homeland, we're being asked to provide conceptual designs for the property, detailed designs for a food forest market garden and a community garden, as well as educational courses. The Kwiakah is a very small community and interestingly quite a few of their members are in New Zealand! This new project hopes to unite their members in a common call to return to live and work on their lands.
Part 2 of The Most Excellent Adventure (still with zero apologies to Bill and Ted)
We left off last time when the dynamic duo of travelers were in Mexico, having escaped the Great White North of Alberta.
Their course of travels continued to wend and weave its way through southern Mexico where new connections were made with EntreAmigos, a community non-profit in San Francisco, Nayarit, with an environmental and education focus; a visit to the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, the Jalisco Butterfly Gardens and then a bus trip down the west coast to La Ventanilla in Oaxaca. Then in Chiapas on the last stop before leaving Mexico was the Parque Natural El Encuentro, in San Cristobal.
Leaving Mexico included some more adventurous bus travels that brought the traveling duo to Guatemala,
 
In Guatemala, they were part of the storytelling and permaculture event hosted by Creasol Permaculture, which was a great success. All in all there were 15 students that joined the group in what was a PDC experiment. Students were engaged in practical hands on applications, building a chicken coop, laying walls, gardening and building grey water infrastructure through bog filters with mycology. Fellow instructors were Michelle from Love Probiotics, Sylvere from Wu Wei Village, Syntropic Agroforestry, Josh from Mycobiotech, Aron Hegarty from Candlelit Tales, and Jasper from Fungi Academy. Here's a snapshot from one of the days at the PDC.
From Guatemala on to El Salvador and some time in the capital of San Salvador including a visit to La Laguna Botanical Garden and the Museum of Anthropology.
From El Salvador the journey continued on to Nicaragua, for a longer stay with lots of sightseeing, food and beaches, connections with friends...and a scorpion encounter!
and then finally to the shores of Lake Nicaragua with commanding views of Omatepe and the twin volcanoes Concepcion and Maderas - and then on to Omatepe itself for a month!
Next will be travel to Panama for Tribal Gathering: A unique festival that draws indigenous ceremony and practices from all over the world to one place. Follow Lindsay on Instagram to see updates on their most excellent adventure over remaining 6 weeks before they head back to Canada, which will also be covered in Newsletter #10 in April.
That's all of the highlights for this newsletter, but keep reading below for details of what else has happened so far in 2026 and what lies before us.
Be the change!
Lindsay Brandon, CEO
Permaculture Canada
(and again with help from her ghost writer)
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