Bridgette Downer, educator, organic farmer, permaculturist and activist has been seeking an ecologically stable and morally acceptable existence for 25 years. She owns Chicken of the Woods Permaculture Farm, where her and her family enjoy building soil and sequestering carbon for future generations. They host volunteers and homeschoolers to learn permaculture principles and assist in growing organic indigenous staple crops, annual vegetables, high CBD hemp for tea and salve and raise pastured chickens and muscovy ducks for eggs and meat. Her motto: Happy soil, happy life.