In January 2017, the PAN Board hired PAN member, Patty Love, for our first paid staff position – a very part-time Coordinator and Board Assistant.
Fun facts about Patty:
- Native to hard clay soils in the Finger Lakes Region of NY
- Lives in Rochester, NY on the banks of Red Creek
- She is barefoot whenever possible!
- Self-employed Virtual Assistant and Business Manager since 2000
- In 2009, attended her first PDC with Dave Feasey and then Starhawk’s E.A.T. in 2011
- Founded Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture – a design-build and consulting firm
- Founded Genesee Valley/Rochester Permaculture and Resilience Network Meetup
- Founded Rochester Permaculture Center, her educational homestead, in 2011
- Founded Lots of Food, a public food forest garden project
- Proud mom of one teen homeschooled son
- Favorite fruit = raspberry
- Wishes she could grow cacao!
- This is the first MailChimp newsletter she has laid out.