July 22nd, 2019

PERMACULTURE GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: MACKENZIE 
by Lucian Toma​

"Opportunities matter, commitment is key." ~ Author Unknown

Meet Mackenzie our new Permaculture Course Coordinator at the San Clemente Homestead. It has been so amazing to see her fast and beautiful growth since we met her first. She graduated our Permaculture Design Certification Course in Summer of 2018. She followed up with completing our Bee Guardians Apprenticeship that Winter. Since then she stepped right into regenerative entrepreneurship and leadership in the community. Currently, Mackenzie is rescuing and relocating bees and creating small batches of homemade bee and herbal based medicine with her new adventure that she named Bee Happy Botanicals. Besides being an avid beekeeper, Mackenzie is a stellar vegan chef and events designer. 

At her own graduation in 2018, guests thought we hired a very expensive company for our food and decor, yet Mackenzie, with our events guru Anna Maria Desipris and other graduates, was the mastermind behind the magic of that celebration. On top of that, the event was 100% zero waste. 

She is highly intelligent, learns fast, very creative, extremely organized, great speaker, compassionate, team player, fantastic gardener, problem solver and has lots of class. She also volunteers a lot of her time to heal degraded ecosystems and build community around sustainability. She has not backed down from any hard labor at our new farm (Desert Bloom Farm). We think she is all About And For Sustainability :) We are thrilled to have her on board for our next course starting on August 3rd. She will be managing all the hospitality and facilitation aspects of this course and will also lead the beekeeping and pollinator session.  

This is our dream: to experience our graduates succeed and lead the regenerative and sustainable transformation of our shared communities and ecosystems.

Mackenzie is a testimony to the power of permaculture and regenerative education. She understood immediately the opportunities this education creates and committed to take advantage of the power that it gives. We believe she is going to go to stellar new heights with her dreams and in the realm of this work and be a leader in our community and beyond. The world sure needs more and more leaders like her!

You can join this immensely rewarding journey of growth in the realm of regenerative and sustainability work with us. Our Permaculture Courses lay a solid foundation to that path. You can use the “Mack100” code at check-out to get a $100 discount for the life changing course at the San Clemente homestead. Part of the cost will go towards making Mackenzie’s visions with her entrepreneurial endeavors come to life also!

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