Patty Love, Founder

Patty Love – Founder, Project Manager and Lead Designer
Patty is a Certified Permaculture Designer (2 PDCs) and Teacher based in the Genesee River Valley (Rochester, NY).  She studies and practices regenerative design, permaculture, edible forest gardening, and social permaculture.  Her work is informed from her education, reading, time in nature, dirt time, parenting, and spiritual pursuits.  She holds two Permaculture Design Certificates and a Permaculture Teaching Certificate, in addition to traditional BS and MALS Degrees. She is the founder of Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture and Rochester Permaculture Center.

 
My Personal Mission is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others’ abundant existence and vibrant well-being.


Rochester Business Journal Interview

Patty’s Credentials:

  • Certified Permaculture Designer (2011) and Teacher (2018) through Earth Activist Training
  • Adjunct Instructor at St. Lawrence University
  • Co-Teacher of Earth Activist Training (PDC) with Starhawk and Charles Williams, 2018
  • Earth Activist Training (PDC) with Starhawk and Charles Williams, 2011
  • Forest Garden Immersion Series with Ethan Roland, 2010
  • Edible Forest Gardens Workshop With Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates
  • Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) Course with Dave Feasey, 2009
  • Rochester Lifeways  Founder, Publisher and Editor
  • Subsistence gardener in childhood
  • BS in Business Admin, MA in Liberal Studies from SUNY College at Brockport