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Use this contact form to send a message, ask a question, or get information on becoming a volunteer at The Convergence.

If you would like to be added to our Directory page, please go here.

If you would like an event to be added to the Events calendar, please visit the Events page here.

Or perhaps you would like to become a Sponsor or a Vendor at the event. If so, fill out the form here.

• 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 
• Pat Rasmussen, NWPCC Secretary/Treasurer - Pat, coordinator of the local Olympia non-profit Edible Forest Gardens, has been planting Edible Forest Gardens of fruit and nut trees, berry bushes and perennial vegetables in yards, community gardens, neighborhood pathways, schools, and businesses in Olympia and the PNW since 2007. She's planted more than 80 gardens around Olympia using volunteers, Evergreen State College students, neighborhood volunteers, and public school students. She has been working with Olympia Neighborhood Associations and the City of Olympia all those years to increase the number of Edible Forest Gardens in neighborhoods using Neighborhood Matching Grants from the City of Olympia to pay for plants. Pat's interest in natural water harvesting methods has led her to plant woodchip gardens as Paul Gautschi does, build many hugelkulturs and use swales on contour in gardens and farms to establish food forests. She uses regenerative, biological methods to grow nutrient dense food. www.edibleforestgardens.org

• 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, Event Coordinator, Convergence 2018 - 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 is 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
• Bill Aal