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Education is at the core of our mission here at Mama Tree.
We practice, teach and refine different approaches to regenerative land stewardship and organic farming with an approach rooted in permaculture design, systems thinking, and community building.
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Our Instructors
Natalie
Madeline
Natalie
With more than a decade of experience in farming, ranching, horticulture, and permaculture design collected from various corners of the globe, Natalie Buckley-Medrano brings a mindful, wide-lens perspective to co-managing Mama Tree with her partner, Jeffrey. Natalie completed a PDC through the Sustainable Vocations program at Quail Spring
With more than a decade of experience in farming, ranching, horticulture, and permaculture design collected from various corners of the globe, Natalie Buckley-Medrano brings a mindful, wide-lens perspective to co-managing Mama Tree with her partner, Jeffrey. Natalie completed a PDC through the Sustainable Vocations program at Quail Springs in 2013, an Advanced Permaculture Design course with Lisa Fernandes at the Resilience Hub in New England in 2016, and a Permaculture Teacher Training with Pandora Thomas and Lisa DePiano in 2017. Since 2017, she has been instructing at Quail Springs PDCs, teaching: Seed Saving and Plant Propagation, Integrated Animal Systems, Urban/Kitchen Gardens, Patterns in Nature and their Applications in Design, and Tree Pruning. She looks forward to sharing Mama Tree’s ethical approach to and strategies for creating life-nourishing (food) systems.
Jeffrey
Madeline
Natalie
While earning his Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology with emphases on Biocultural Diversity and Ethnoecology, Jeffrey became interested in learning deeper, more integrative ways of understanding and interacting with the world in an ethical and ecologically sound way. After working at some farms and completing his PDC, he later continued
While earning his Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology with emphases on Biocultural Diversity and Ethnoecology, Jeffrey became interested in learning deeper, more integrative ways of understanding and interacting with the world in an ethical and ecologically sound way. After working at some farms and completing his PDC, he later continued his training and education at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.
Jeffrey deepened his understanding of Ethnoecology with a Masters in Global Sustainability, where he researched how trees and forests impact public health and address environmental justice, while mitigating climate change and providing vital environmental benefits and services.
He has taught, consulted, and worked with small-holder farmers, NGOs, policy makers, and community-based organizations around the world, mainly in East-Africa, to create resilient communities and foster healthy and functioning agro-ecosystems.
Madeline
Madeline
Madeline
Madeline is a land steward, kitchen witch, and tender of life. She is dedicated to reclaiming sacred connections to our ancestral ways as a means to support the continuation of life on Earth. A forever student, Madeline is passionate about learning skills and modalities that support her vision for collective healing through Earth based
Madeline is a land steward, kitchen witch, and tender of life. She is dedicated to reclaiming sacred connections to our ancestral ways as a means to support the continuation of life on Earth. A forever student, Madeline is passionate about learning skills and modalities that support her vision for collective healing through Earth based wisdom. It is her greatest joy to weave all that she has learned from her studies and offer them back to others through her heart and voice as teacher.
Abudu
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Madeline
Abudu is an Earth tender, forest gardener, natural builder & artist who seeks collective health & liberation through conscious practice, education, & relationship. He is also the Seed sower of Akwaaba Urban Food Forest Garden. He spends most of his days working in community at ‘Mama Tree Orchard’ and tending to the cycles of life on Chumash lands in the Ojai Valley.
Logan
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Logan is a whole systems thinker and the cultivator of conscious and creative systems.
He has 10 years of global Permaculture practice and design working in each climate zone of the world. His passion for animal husbandry, years of experience in the industry and teaching PDCs is his greatest asset to Mama Tree educational programs. He unde
Logan is a whole systems thinker and the cultivator of conscious and creative systems.
He has 10 years of global Permaculture practice and design working in each climate zone of the world. His passion for animal husbandry, years of experience in the industry and teaching PDCs is his greatest asset to Mama Tree educational programs. He understands how to make large complex fields of knowledge seem easy to grasp and to engage with helping him to guide people into the world of regenerative systems design.