Paula is a permaculture designer, agroecologist, teacher, and writer who started Ecological Design in 2000, co-founded Permaculture Research Institute Cold Climate in 2003, developed a plant database for designing plant communities, and co-founded Land Song in 2022. She is passionate about building a regenerative culture that reconnects people with land, themselves, and their communities. Over the last 20+ years, she has designed and helped transition hundreds of sites including regenerative agriculture farms, public spaces, campuses, urban farms, and backyards.