Christopher Shein has been busting ass for 27 years in Berkeley and Oakland, a visionary and hands-on community gardener, he has started BASIL (Bay Area Seed Interchange Library) 20 years ago at the Ecology Center, Spiral Gardens 27 years ago, Ploughshares Nursery 14 years ago, Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Department’s Permaculture Design Certificate (17.5 units) and Wildheart Gardens (20 years ago) an independent applied ecological native, edible, medicinal garden and rainwater and greywater business, and written The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem (2013 Timber Press– sold more than 100,000 copies internationally)
2018 Convergence Workshop: Introduction to Permaculture