02/21/2026
In 2014, we had the incredible honor of hosting a five-day workshop with Elaine Ingham through what was then the San Diego Sustainable Living Institute — now known as The Permaculture Lab.
This photo was taken during that week. Elaine is holding our daughter, who wasn’t even one year old at the time.
Looking back, that moment feels symbolic.
Elaine didn’t just teach soil biology — she helped shift a generation’s understanding of land stewardship. She taught that soil is not “dirt,” but a living, breathing community. That when we support the biology, ecosystems begin to repair themselves. That regeneration starts below our feet.
That workshop deeply influenced the direction of our work — how we design, how we teach, and ultimately the evolution of our organization into what is now The Permaculture Lab.
Her legacy lives on in every compost pile brewed with intention, every landscape designed with soil life in mind, and every student who begins to see the underground world as the true foundation of regeneration.
We are grateful we got to host her.
Grateful our daughter got to be held by her.
Grateful for the seeds she planted here.
May we continue the work.
