
Topics will Include:
- Permaculture Principles and Techniques
- Regenerating and Maintaining healthy soils (Soil is Alive!)
- Compost and Compost Teas
- Tips and practices to start seeds
- Designing your gardens and working with your own unique site
- Companion planting
- Plant lists and their different functions and roles
- Water awareness
- Local Resource List for further research and purchasing seeds, plants, and garden products
Meet Indigo Donaldson

Indigo Donaldson is a permaculture designer and educator, activist, master gardener, and holistic healer focusing on western herbalism.
Indigo believes that clean organic food and natural medicine is the basis of good health and that everyone should have access to them. She is committed to empowering and teaching people how to grow and prepare their own food and medicine.
At present she is the founder, owner and manages two of her own herbal product companies Surya Care and Indigo Herbals. Her work experiences in the herbal field consist of formulator, product maker and wildcrafter for herbal companies, managing herb stores, and researcher for the Herb Research Foundation.
She has co-taught Permaculture Design Courses, Aquaponics Courses, Herbal Medicine and Gardening Workshops and has taught a series of Yoga/Permaculture Workshops entitled "Sustainability From the Inside Out" As well as co-created many large community garden projects and campaigns.
She currently works and resides in Nevada City CA surrounded by the unsurpassed beauty of nature where she can walk out her door and go in any direction to harvest and make herbal medicine to add to her extensive apothecary. Her passion for studying, learning, caring for and sharing wisdom with the Earth and inhabitants grows stronger every day.