Kate

Kate comes to the Backyard Habitat program as a personal learner of the patterns and relationships of humans and non-humans who live here, land stewardship and permaculture farming,  regenerative landscape design, and wetland and pond design and construction. Kate has always lived in what is now called Oregon and has a deep affinity with the places and biomes that make this place special. They have been exploring their own settler colonial worldview and the impacts of this worldview on our daily life cycles and the non-humans we live with. They weave this process into their work at Backyard Habitat to learn alongside other non-native humans to deepen our care for the place we love and build new practices to engage with our fellow beings. Kate is passionate about water resiliency and waterbody creation, forest advocacy, wetland ecology, decolonization, and climate resilience. They are always excited to have conversations about these topics, so feel free to ask.