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Workshop Learning Outcomes
Come join us for a half-day hands-on workshop where participants will:
- Leave with a foundational understanding of soil health
- See various examples of different composting methods and strategies for different scales
- Learn to implement a composting system fitting to your scale and needs
Meet Your Instructors
Morgan
Morgan of Grow With Mo is an Ojai-based garden designer and ecologist specializing in edible gardens, California native plants, and regenerative design. As a Certified Permaculture Designer with over a decade of experience in organic gardening and land stewardship, she loves helping people grow food, compost, and connect with nature in their own backyards.
Instagram: @ediblegardensojai
Abudu
Abudu is MAMA TREE’s lead carpenter, arborist, and forest tender. He also helps guide animal systems and agroforestry projects. After studying fine arts painting, drawing and ceramics at Pratt Institute of Art, Abudu created a pottery studio in Los Angeles, CA, with an emphasis on ceramics as sadhana. After returning from a trip to Standing Rock, he realized a void in himself of conscious connection with the elements, food, medicine, and our more than human kin. Feeling this Earth call, he closed the pottery studio and traveled throughout the central West coast, studying Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Agroecology, Permaculture Design, and Natural Building. When he returned to LA, Abudu worked at Fruititute, an urban fruit tree company, and Artemisia Nursery, installing native plant gardens. He also lived and worked at a Waldorf farm school in Altadena and seeded the Akwaaba Food Forest Garden in Pasadena. Abudu has studied with Indigenous Communities, Quail Springs, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, and in the Siskiyou Mountains with Hazel Ward. His most recent trip was to learn about and document Gurunsi Organic Farmers in Northern Ghana, his father’s homeland.
Logan
Logan is the Animal Supervisor at MAMA TREE and is responsible for overseeing the livestock system at the core of the farm's success. Born in South Africa, Logan holds a degree in large scale business strategy as well as a Permaculture Design Certification. He has worked on farms as large as 900 Hectares and consulted on many jobs for clients at the homestead scale. He completed his Teacher’s Training and is now able to certify students through his business and farm planning service, Global Nature Design. Logan's goal in life is to cultivate conscious and creative systems while helping humans to get closer to nature.
Natalie
Natalie co-directs all aspects of MAMA TREE alongside her partner, Jeffrey. She brings a mindful, wide-lens perspective shaped by over a decade of experience in farming, ranching, and permaculture design across various parts of the world. Her expertise in horticulture and plant propagation were further honed through running her own successful gardening and landscaping business and working in the greenhouses at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Natalie completed a PDC through the Sustainable Vocations program at Quail Springs in 2013, apprenticed on a full cob house build at Spirit Pine in 2015, completed an Advanced Permaculture Design Course with Lisa Fernandes at the Resilience Hub in New England in 2016, and finally a Permaculture Teacher Training with Pandora Thomas and Lisa DePiano in 2017.
Since 2017, she has been instructing at Quail Springs PDCs: Seed Saving and Plant Propagation, Integrated Animal Systems, Urban/Kitchen Gardens, Patterns in Nature and their Applications in Design, and Tree Pruning. Natalie looks forward to sharing MAMA TREE’s ethical approach to and strategies for creating life-nourishing (food) systems with learners of all ages.