Angela grew up in a family which valued not only the sciences, but the pursuit of traditional domestic skills such as baking and gardening.

She attended Grinnell College, where she studied biology, her capstone on invasive species’ impacts on songbird migration.

It was in college, while attending a Woman, Food, and Agriculture Network conference, that she learned about permaculture, and was immediately drawn to its holistic design concepts.

While her early adult years of gardening were done in pots on a St. Louis apartment balcony, and then plowing with a tractor on a large rural garden, she eventually resettled to Portland, OR, where she and her family started Parkrose Permaculture on a sunny 1/4 acre. She continues her work there to this day, engaged in experiments in sustainable living and food production, permaculture education, and creating a safe and nurturing home for her husband and four children.

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