Maya Blow is an herbalist and classical homeopath practicing in the East SF Bay Area. She is also an artist, homeschooling mother of two, aspiring farmer, and avid crafter. Maya’s hobbies include gardening, foraging for wild food, fermenting and canning, making herbal medicine, and dying with plants. Maya lives on an urban farm with her husband, sons, goats, chickens, and bees.
Rebecca Newburn is the Co-Founder and Coordinator of Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, a free seed lending library located in the Richmond Public Library. She studied seed saving at Seed School under Bill McDorman. When she’s not working on Richmond Grows, she is a middle school math and science teacher. Occasionally, she can be seen walking around town dressed as the iconic Rosie the Riveter because she loves her can do-spirit and she’s a hometown girl.
Christina Bertea is a union trained plumbing contractor and ARCSA trained rainwater installer who has been teaching greywater and rainwater DIY classes for homeowners with Greywater Action for the past four years. An eco-artist, she creates public rainwater catchment sculptures and delights in sharing her passion for whimsical yet functional rain-catchment contraptions.
Lindsay Dailey is a permaculture designer and educator, passionate about connecting people to the natural world and regenerating damaged landscapes while growing useful plants. She has been an active leader in the realm of sustainability education for the last seven years, practicing permaculture for the last five, before which she was the director of the Solar Living Institute. She is co-founder of Villa Sobrante, an urban permaculture and natural building community and demonstration site in the East Bay, and founder of Edge Ecology, a regenerative design and education firm.
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine studied rainwater harvesting and permaculture in New Mexico in the late 1990s, then moved to Oakland where he co-founded the Greywater Guerrillas in 1999. He has designed and installed rainwater harvesting and greywater systems in homes and community spaces across North America, and is currently pursuing a PhD in applied hydrology at UC Berkeley. His books include Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground Trilby DuPont is a gardener, composter, beekeeper, and builder who has been living, learning, and sharing skills at her home, Villa Sobrante, a semi-urban natural building retrofit and permaculture project. Trilby is fascinated by cycles that turn unappreciated things in our culture into very useful things (like compost!). She tends to learn best by doing, and is committed to supporting other to do so as well.
