Doniga Markegard

Courses Completed with RDI:

• Permaculture Design Course, Skywater, 2002
• RDI year-long apprenticeship 2004
• Additional advanced permaculture courses with special guests at RDI

The Regenerative Design Institute helped me the tools necessaryto bring Permaculture into my own community. I am partnering with the non-profit Conexions and launching our first annual Permaculture Design Course this summer at Tunitas Creek Ranch in Half Moon Bay, CA. As a part of the program with RDI, I completed a Bachelors Degree in Sustainable Community Development from Prescott College, Arizona. In order to take my design to the next level, I am currently pursuing my certificate and license in Landscape Architecture at University of California Berkeley Extension 's cutting edge program which focuses on sustainability in the built environment.

You can visit the San Francisco Exploratorium listening exhibit, or the website, to see a video on some of my wildlife tracking work as well as visit the interactive listening exhibit where I lead visitors to the museum through a sensory experience of moving through nature. I currently own and operate Designs by Doniga , consulting on projects in land management, erosion control, organic gardening, Permaculture, wildlife, renewable energy, natural building and native species restoration. Most recently my husband, Erik, and I started Markegard Family Grass-Fed , a business that focuses on providing locally born, raised and processed beef for the community.

I have an immense passion for the natural world and helping others live a life of sustainability and balance with the Earth and all living things by leading a life of example where my own actions are deliberated into the health of the future generations.