Jul 7, 2023, 10:00 am–2:00 pm
Free through Sacred Reciprocity
60 Tilson Rd, Tilson, NY
Join us for this Garden Walk to gain empowerment tools for developing a personal relationship with your own garden! See how to design over time, use weeds to your advantage, build soil and expand your garden quickly using onsite materials. Observe how diversity works in our favor and nature’s principles operate at every scale.
Overcome your fear of going off-row and learn to how plants benefit one another. Bill Mollison said “We garden according to age and inclination.” Claudia's inclination is to intensively cultivate food, medicine, craft material and wildlife habitat for personal and educational purposes.
Claudia Joseph is a permaculture practitioner, teacher and consultant who has lived in the Hudson Valley for five years. The developing landscape at her home holds diverse plantings for multiple purposes. Berries, medicinal and culinary plants, fruit, nut trees, and flowers are planted on contour to capture water and hedge the .44 acre property. Claudia is an experienced permaculture teacher who has practiced on both coasts and in city and country landscapes. Her current project at her home is a suburban model.Read more about Claudia:
Ms. Joseph developed over an acre of gardens in Washington Park, at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn during the course of 14 years (2004-2018). The historic site which is used for recreation and education has colonially referenced and indigenous plantings. Students and volunteers maintained the site through programs she developed. Her essay in The City Is An Ecosystem - a cross curriculum text book published in 2022 - details how permaculture principles were successfully applied. She was president of the Garden of Union - one of NYC’s 600 community gardens - and managed the 14 ton compost system there. Claudia learned and taught permaculture in California and was the first teacher to lead a Permaculture Design Consultant’s (PDC) certificate course in NYC, at the New York Open Center in 2007. She has taught numerous classes and workshops for NYBG, BBG, GreenThumb, Just Food and other organizations as well as working in the gardens with special education students from the adjacent Middle School 51. Claudia holds two PDC course certificates, a Diploma of Permaculture from Permaculture USA for education and design, and is certified by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA).