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If you are interested in joining the board, please email info@northwestpermaculture.org.

Current Board members:

• Shaelee Evans, President - Shaelee’s childhood love of flowers arose to her founding Integrated Earth Horticulture, at age 22, an ornamental-permaculture gardening firm to balance beauty, productivity and sustainability; while also designing forest stewardship plans based on food and medicine crops. She has received AS degrees in Natural Resources Management (‘04), Surveying-Geomatics (‘06) and a BS in Applied Business Management (‘18). Though founded in ‘07, Goodness Tea has become her focus since 2014. Her social advocacy, fine-beverage and food production company is founded in Port Angeles, to make good of the region’s abundant natural resources. She makes her home near there in Sequim, at Goodness Farm, a jaunt away from the mighty Dungeness River, in the rain-shadow of the Olympic Mountains.
  Phone: 360-670-1041  Email: goodnesstea@gmail.com ​
• David Stein, Technology Coordinator - David Stein is a recent  college graduate with a degree in Ethnobotany. His long-term goal is to be a herb farmer. His interest in permaculture began with herbal medicine, and has evolved over the years. While going to school at Fairhaven College in Bellingham, he has worked on the farm located right on campus. Over the next few years, David hopes to travel around the world and visit permaculture sites in other countries. ​
• Laura Sweany, A 5th generation Washingtonian, Laura has been an active member of the permaculture community since her first PDC in 2004. She helped coordinate The Convergence in 2008-10, and was back as Event Coordinator for 2018. After working on urban agriculture practices in Seattle (where she lived for over half a century), she made the break to Lewis County and 10 acres on which to practice broadacre permaculture systems and land stewardship. She is also one of the founding members of Lewis County Permaculture Society on Facebook, and can be reached via www.alwaysgrowingdesign.weebly.com​
• Cassie Driver, Secretary - Cassie grew up in Virginia, and lived in Wisconsin for 10 years. While living in Wisconsin she received her Bachelor's degree in business administration, and was introduced to permaculture, receiving her design certificate in 2015.  In 2016 she moved to Lewis County with the intention of practicing permaculture on her 7.5 acre farm where she resides with her husband, three cats, five chickens, and twelve ducks. She has been focusing on growing community by creating sustainable events as a founding member of the Gather Green Worker Cooperative.  In 2018 she participated in the Northwest Permaculture Convergence as the volunteer coordinator, and shortly thereafter joined the board as secretary.