Marbleseed Conference 2025 - Presentations

Jackie and I will share a brief history of Hoch Orchard and Gardens. We will touch on our reasons for leaving the business and the path we took to keep our life-long project producing organic food the community. Our transition out of temperate zone farming to tropical permaculture was not quick or simple. We were able to take the sting out of the loss of our farm by starting a smaller hands-on permaculture project in Belize. We built an off-grid house in an Eco-development where the motto of the community is “Independent together”. Jackie and I are managing six acres of green space to set up a permaculture production system within the 100-acre community. We will wrap up our workshop describing the community and our new project.