Re-Indigenize by Letting your garden grow itself...


Plant a Food Forest.


Permaculture plant guilds combine three or more plants to mirror an ecosystem — producing food, building soil health, and providing food for pollinators.

Re-Indigenize By Letting Your Garden Grow Itself...


Plant A Food Forest.


Permaculture Plant Guilds Combine Three Or More Plants To Mirror An Ecosystem — Producing Food, Building Soil Health, And Providing Food For Pollinators.

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This beautiful e-book, from Ixchel, contains over 60 plants with their functions in a layered food forest, several nature-inspired zentangle coloring pages, and how-tos on planting a bee-friendly garden to provide nectar for pollinators year round.


High fives to you for being a bee protector! By planting flowering plants loaded with juicy nectar you’re helping pollinators struggling from:


• Climate chaos heating up hives

• Fearful neighbors who exterminate instead of relocating a swarm

• Pesticides (need I say more?)


Our global plant list includes plants that are easy to find for your region. The ones marked medicinal provide medicine for people, but also for bees. They store this potent pollen in a medicine cabinet for when they get sick. Bees are an amazing super-organism!


Our plant list also shows what layer of a food forest it lives and its role or functions, like fertilizing, protecting soil, or plant dyes.


When you create a food forest that uses plants in a variety of ways, that’s called stacking functions. It’s a core permaculture principle. Stacking functions allow the garden to grow itself, giving you more time to chill and enjoy your space and more yield.


This guide will help you create plant guilds in a food forest too. A plant guild combines three or more plants to mirror the qualities of an ecosystem, producing food, building healthy soil, and providing forage for pollinators all at the same time!


And if you want to Grow Your Green Smoothie, get the optional upgrade to the permaculture course to learn from 20 leading experts in gardening, soil science, urban gardening, and more.

(scroll down to learn more about the course)

This beautiful e-book, from Ixchel, contains over 60 plants with their functions in a layered food forest, several nature-inspired zentangle coloring pages, and how-tos on planting a bee-friendly garden to provide nectar for pollinators year round.


High fives to you for being a bee protector! By planting flowering plants loaded with juicy nectar you’re helping pollinators struggling from:


• Climate chaos heating up hives


• Fearful neighbors who exterminate instead of relocating a swarm


• Pesticides (need I say more?)


Our global plant list includes plants that are easy to find for your region. The ones marked medicinal provide medicine for people, but also for bees. They store this potent pollen in a medicine cabinet for when they get sick. Bees are an amazing super-organism!


Our plant list also shows what layer of a food forest it lives and its role or functions, like fertilizing, protecting soil, or plant dyes.


When you create a food forest that uses plants in a variety of ways, that’s called stacking functions. It’s a core permaculture principle. Stacking functions allow the garden to grow itself, giving you more time to chill and enjoy your space and more yield.


This guide will help you create plant guilds in a food forest too. A plant guild combines three or more plants to mirror the qualities of an ecosystem, producing food, building healthy soil, and providing forage for pollinators all at the same time!


And if you want to Grow Your Green Smoothie, get the optional upgrade to the permaculture course to learn from 20 leading experts in gardening, soil science, urban gardening, and more.


(scroll down to learn more about the course)

When you're doing transformational work to heal systemic wounds… you’re an Edgewalker.


When you're dismantling oppressions on the daily…

you’re an Edgewalker.


When you're navigating liminal spaces of non-dominant identities … you’re an Edgewalker.


Edgewalkers have been living in liminal spaces, in between worlds (this colonial world and the future we are co-creating), cultures, ethnicities and/or identities. Gloria Anzaldúa describes this as the Nepantla.


This has left us weary, and without a sense of belonging. But we don’t have to navigate the edges alone.

When you are doing transformational work and healing systemic wounds…

you’re an Edgewalker.



When you are dismantling oppressions on the daily…

you’re an Edgewalker.



When you are navigating the liminal spaces of non-dominant identities …

you’re an Edgewalker.



Edgewalkers have been living in liminal spaces, in between worlds (this colonial world and the future we are co-creating), cultures, ethnicities and/or identities. Gloria Anzaldúa describes this as the Nepantla.


This has left us weary, and without a sense of belonging. But we don’t have to navigate the edges alone.

This is the Edgewalkers Dilemma...

How do we make miracles and get epic shit done without reproducing systems of brutal productivity on ourselves or our people?


Root into the daily rituals initiated leaders cultivate

to exponentially grow their impact without exhausting their relationships.

Busy is a state of disconnection, depletion, disrepair.


Let's Drop That Shit.

Dwell in your Wild Presence

Want to learn more about Permaculture?

Introducing... Grow Your Green Smoothie Course


How to Grow Your Own Enchanted Food Forest

with Simple Permaculture Solutions


This is a regenerative gardening video course designed to show you how grow food, restore soil health, build community, and be resilient — at any scale.


17 in-depth Video Modules to

Guide Your Food Forest Vision


This course features conversations with leading experts in gardening, soil science, urban gardening, and more. In the comfort of your home:


• Learn practical tips and solutions for creating a lush, fertile food forest of any size.

• Get expert insights into turning your neighborhood into a resilient local food network.

• Get inspired to change the world, one yard at a time.


When you purchase Buzzing Blooms for Bees,

add the Grow Your Green Smoothie Course

to your order for just $37.

Who is this for?


Gardeners of all levels • Aspiring Green Thumbs • Families • School Gardeners • Civic and Service Groups • Civic Leaders and Activists • Church Groups • Urban Farmers • Business Owners • Mothers Groups • Granges • Water Activists • Beekeepers • Permies (Aspiring and Certified) • and many, many more!

This Course is for You if You Want to Learn:

  • The small, daily actions that can make for a more resilient you, family, and community (the secret ingredient to a beautiful life!)
  • Key secrets of “stacking functions” in your garden to make it more productive, fertile, and efficient
  • Explore why the Earth is actually a verb, and learn to move forward in a more mutually enhancing way with All of Life
  • Creative tips and tricks for repurposing common leftover materials in your home or yard and integrating them into your beautiful garden design
  • Get the scoop on beneficial backyard critters — chickens, rabbits, and more — how to get started and the long term truths of keeping animals
  • How to supercharge your soil health with an easy-to-follow intro to composting and no-till methods
  • Learn the magic technique that will save you water while producing your best yields ever
  • Tour nonprofit orgs and urban farms leading the fight against hunger that will inspire you to jump from the back yard to the community
  • Learn the secrets of “companion planting” and the layers of a food forest group together for your garden’s growth, attracting pollinators, and more
  • Get the secrets of thinking like a watershed when planning your food forest
  • Learn how your shower, washing machine, roof, or a little mulch can save you thousands of gallons of water per year, while feeding your food forest
  • Discover what you can do with your bounty, after the harvest — with easy canning, preserving, and fermenting how-to’s
  • Discover how your ancestors can guide you in your garden

Founder of the J.E.D.I.* Time Collective, a Queer Mestize Indigenous WebDeva (25+ years) and author of Buzzing Blooms for Bees. Weaving Anti-Racist Decolonial Feminist business

(this is NOT white woman feminism) and initiated leadership strategies alongside neuroscience to train Edgewalkers decolonize and reclaim your time, skip the crash and liberate your Flow…

IXCHEL LUNAR,

(She/We/They)

✨ Decolonial Time Witch ✨

I know what happens when we go-go-go...


and I know what’s possible when we give ourselves Time and Space for Rest

I come to our work together from the intersection of on-the-ground organizing and political work; from deep training in ancestral spiritual practices and plant medicine; and from 35+ years of consciousness exploration. For nearly 3 decades I’ve committed myself to social justice work, organizing for communities of culture and serving in local politics.

Here’s what all of this means for you:

I have developed a keen sense of centering justice, emergence, decolonizing, interconnectedness. I view the world, our bodies and our Work as emergent as we create new, just ways of thriving. I can help you dance with the cycles and flow in your life, helping you deepen your leadership capacities from this space of integration and interconnectedness too.

All that to say…

I weave together Anti-Racist Decolonial Feminist business practices (this is NOT white woman feminism), initiated leadership strategies and the best of neuroscience together to help Edgewalkers like you decolonize and reclaim your time, skip the burnout and liberate your Flow.


This dyadic process isn’t prescriptive. You’re not learning what worked for me. Cultivate your rituals around how Flow works for you, your cycles, your biology, while unlearning the colonial systems that disrupt your natural states of being. Why? Because Biology scales (h/t Steven Kotler).

And when your biology scales… so does your impact.

Here’s what all of this means for you:

I have developed a keen sense of centering justice, emergence, decolonizing, interconnectedness. I view the world, our bodies and our Work as emergent as we create new, just ways of thriving. I can help you dance with the cycles and flow in your life, helping you deepen your leadership capacities from this space of integration and interconnectedness too.

All that to say…

I weave together Anti-Racist Decolonial Feminist business practices (this is NOT white woman feminism), initiated leadership strategies and the best of neuroscience together to help Edgewalkers like you decolonize and reclaim your time, skip the burnout and liberate your Flow.


This dyadic process isn’t prescriptive. You’re not learning what worked for me. Cultivate your rituals around how Flow works for you, your cycles, your biology, while unlearning the colonial systems that disrupt your natural states of being. Why? Because Biology scales (h/t Steven Kotler).

And when your biology scales… so does your impact.

IXCHEL LUNAR,

(She/We/They)

✨ Decolonial Time Witch ✨

Founder of the J.E.D.I.* Time Collective, a Queer Mestize Indigenous WebDeva (25+ years) and author of Buzzing Blooms for Bees. Weaving Anti-Racist Decolonial Feminist business

(this is NOT white woman feminism) and initiated leadership strategies alongside neuroscience to train Edgewalkers decolonize and reclaim your time, skip the crash and liberate your Flow…

I know the consequences of when we go-go-go...


I know all too well what it means to fly too close to the sun and crash because of it…


and I know what’s possible when we give ourselves Time and Space for Rest

I come to our work together from the intersection of on-the-ground organizing and political work; from deep training in ancestral spiritual practices and plant medicine; and from 35+ years of consciousness exploration. For nearly 3 decades I’ve committed myself to social justice work, organizing for communities of culture and serving in local politics.

On the Other Side of Rest is Flow.

Dwell in your Wild Presence

Want To Learn More About Permaculture?

Introducing... Grow Your Green Smoothie Course


How to Grow Your Own Enchanted Food Forest


with Simple Permaculture Solutions


This is a regenerative gardening video course designed to show you how grow food, restore soil health, build community, and be resilient — at any scale.


17 in-depth Video Modules to


Guide Your Food Forest Vision


This course features conversations with leading experts in gardening, soil science, urban gardening, and more. In the comfort of your home:


• Learn practical tips and solutions for creating a lush, fertile food forest of any size.


• Get expert insights into turning your neighborhood into a resilient local food network.


• Get inspired to change the world, one yard at a time.


When you purchase Buzzing Blooms for Bees,


Add the Grow Your Green Smoothie Course


to your order for just $37.

Who is this for?


Gardeners of all levels • Aspiring Green Thumbs • Families • School Gardeners • Civic and Service Groups • Civic Leaders and Activists • Church Groups • Urban Farmers • Business Owners • Mothers Groups • Granges • Water Activists • Beekeepers • Permies (Aspiring and Certified) • and many, many more!

Those who pay-in-full also receive:

1+1 Stellar Strategy Session with Ixchel

These 90-minute, 1+1 sessions, are a mix of coaching and strategy for Cultivating Daily Flow Rituals and Reclaiming your Time. (Limited Offer)

1

1+1 Stellar Strategy Session with Ixchel

These 90-minute, 1+1 sessions, are a mix of coaching and strategy for Cultivating Daily Flow Rituals and Reclaiming your Time. (Limited Offer)

1

Foundations of Sacred Inclusion from Eva Glamaris

A recorded masterclass that examines the 10 foundational principles for self-exploration to learn, practice & develop the skills to create safer and inclusive spaces for people of color. ($300 Value)

2

✨ Case studies ✨

The Grow Your Green Smoothie Course is like taking a 3-day seminar in the comfort and convenience of your own home. I think my future gardens can’t help but be healthier and more productive with all the new information I have learned.

– Cynthia R.

I loved watching and listening to this course. Even though I consider myself eco-literate, I found myself pausing the talks, scribbling notes, rewinding and watching again.

— Jacqui M.

I gathered with 3 neighbors to watch the interview with Singing Frog Farms' Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser. That started a whole conversation about our farming methods and we've pledged to work 1/2 our field without tilling as a result. That will represent a lot of greenhouse gas sequestered in the soil!

— Joan L.

The Grow Your Green Smoothie Course is like taking a 3-day seminar in the comfort and convenience of your own home. I think my future gardens can’t help but be healthier and more productive with all the new information I have learned.

– Cynthia R.

I loved watching and listening to this course. Even though I consider myself eco-literate, I found myself pausing the talks, scribbling notes, rewinding and watching again.

Jacqui M.

I gathered with 3 neighbors to watch the interview with Singing Frog Farms' Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser. That started a whole conversation about our farming methods and we've pledged to work 1/2 our field without tilling as a result. That will represent a lot of greenhouse gas sequestered in the soil!

Joan L.

Learn from the Leading Experts in Regenerative Living

Module 1: Opening Ripples, Becoming Resilient

Trathen Heckman | Executive Director, Daily Acts

This is a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities put in front of each of us, every day. Never doubt the impact that small, deliberate actions can have on your family, community, or the world. We kick off Tierra Chicas “Grow Your Green Smoothie” course with a chat Trathen Heckman, Executive Director of Daily Acts,. We’ll explore simple, impactful actions you can take to build personal resilience and solutions for infusing that inspiration into your soil and community.

Module 2: Get in the Zone, An Ecosystem Blueprint for Your Garden

Christopher Shein | Author, The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

The key to any fertile food forest starts with understanding your space and landscape, and proper planning. In this talk, we’ll introduce you to the permaculture concept of zones (planning based on the intensity of use and care needed for your plantings). You’ll learn the fundamentals of assessing your site — tracking the sun, slope, water flow, and other important patterns specific to your space. You’ll walk away learning how to plan your garden like an ecosystem, at a scale that most closely matches your needs.

Module 3: Layers of a Food Forest

Ryan Johnston | Founder, Biotic Brands; Daily Acts Board Member

One of the fundamental truths about nature is that it’s efficient. Oftentimes, the most fruitful food forests and homesteads are ones that mirror nature’s example. In this conversation with Ryan Johnston, Program Director for the Permaculture Skills Center, we’ll introduce the idea of stacking functions for efficiency, fertility, and conservation in your garden.

Module 4: Ego-System Re-Story-ation, Ecology of Awakening

Kerry Brady | Teacher and Lecturer, Occidental Arts an Ecology Center and Commonweal

The key to starting a food revolution at home or in our neighborhood is a shift in consciousness — out of a sense of being a separate self, living on the Earth which is solely here as our resource, into a lived experience of being an inherent part of the 14 billion year unfolding that brought us forth. In this in-depth conversation with personal ecology leader, Kerry Brady, we explore strategies for awakening from the Story of Separation into the realization that we are intricately woven into the ever-evolving, vibrant web of life.

Module 5: Re-Using Materials in Your Food Forest

Larry Santoyo | Executive Director, Permaculture Academy

Re-use, conservation, and zero waste are all fundamental permaculture concepts we’re introducing you to throughout Tierra Chicas course. If you have materials like scrap lumber, concrete, bricks, metal, etc hanging around your house, you can either send them to the landfill or spice up your garden with some creative re-use. In this talk from Larry Santoyo, renowned expert and lead instructor for L.A.’s Permaculture Academy, we look at strategies for incorporating found objects and materials around your home into your garden space. We’ll teach you how honestly assess both when and when not to add re-used materials, and show you a variety of re-use solutions from Larry’s project archives you can emulate and put into practice right away in your own space.

Module 6: Critters! — A Backyard Guide

Dana Beckstoffer-Yares | Co-Founder, 555Farm / My Urban Farm

So you think you want to add chickens to your yard — or rabbits, or some other backyard critter. Backyard animals are a great addition to any homestead. They provide companionship and fertility to your garden and boost its ecological health overall. But before you adopt those cute baby chicks, it’s important to plan short and long term. In this chat with Dana Beckstoffer-Yares, Co-Founder of My Urban Farm and long-term keeper of backyard critters, we’ll walk you through all of the ramifications of adding animals to your homestead space.

Module 7: No-Till Your Way to Soil Fertility

Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser | Owners, Singing Frogs Farms

Get ready to get down and dirty with soil in this session with Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser, Founders of Singing Frogs Farm, whose no-till approach to their farm has resulted in an increase of 1% to 8% organic matter in their soil — and yields that any farmer or gardener would love to have. You’ll learn the fundamentals of what makes up healthy soil, composting best practices, and a guide to replicating their no-till method at any scale.

Module 8: From Pattern to Details, Emulating Natural Patterns

Kendall Dunnigan | Permaculture Design Program Director, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center

The key to any successful food forest or garden project starts with proper planning. Fortunately for you, nature is a pretty good teacher. In this session, we’ll get in-depth with the theories and benefits of emulating natural design patterns in your own garden project, After providing this foundation, we’ll dive into some practical examples that are applicable at any scale. The result? A healthier, more diverse, more efficient, more bountiful garden sanctuary.

Module 9:Intro to Urban Homesteading

Rachel Kaplan | Author, Urban Homesteading

Get ready to get down and dirty with soil in this session with Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser, Founders of Singing Frogs Farm, whose no-till approach to their farm has resulted in an increase of 1% to 8% organic matter in their soil — and yields that any farmer or gardener would love to have. You’ll learn the fundamentals of what makes up healthy soil, composting best practices, and a guide to replicating their no-till method at any scale.

Module 10: Urban Farming for the Community

Doria Robinson | Executive Director, Urban Tilth

Throughout Tierra Chicas course, we’ve emphasized the personal skills you’ll need to grow amazing food in your own yard. For those who are especially motivated to transform your neighborhood or community into a food network and tackle the larger issues of food insecurity, this session is for you. We chat with Doria Robinson, Executive Director of Urban Tilth, who is modeling homestead-to-community leadership with passion and working to address food justice and insecurity throughout the Bay Area. In this session, we’ll look at the urban garden and farm models being championed by Urban Tilth, and leave you with the inspiration and blueprint for doing the same in your own community.

Module 11:Plant Guilds & Pollinators

Delia Carroll | Co-Founder, 13Moon CoLab

In this session, we’ll introduce you to the concepts of plant guilds and companion planting — strategizing the diversity and intensity of your garden crop choices to maximize production and benefit the whole ecosystem of your yard. You’ll learn how to adapt your planting strategy to your particular climate and get an in-depth understanding of the fertility happening above and below the soil surface. You’ll learn how to look at so-called “weeds” in your garden as beneficial companion plants, and pick up tangible companion plant ideas you can put to use right away.

Module 12: Food Forests on a Budget

Matt & Adriana Powers | Permaculture Life School

Start small, start where you are, and grow from there. That’s the mantra of Tierra Chicas. Bu what happens if you’re on a tight budget or want to get the family involved in your project? In this chat with Matt & Adriana Powers, permaculture teachers and authors of The Permaculture Student Online, we’ll look at tried and true ideas for starting (and stewarding) a food forest at any scale on a budget. You’ll also walk away with tips to get the whole family involved and jazzed about getting their hands dirty with your project.

Module 13: Thinking Like a Watershed

Brock Dolman | Co-Founder, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center / WATER Institute

Water, water everywhere — or is there? We go in-depth with water conservation solutions suitable for those dealing with water shortage or abundance. Brock Dolman leads us through how to view your yard or garden site as a watershed, and introduces us to the mantra of "Slow It – Spread It – Sink It" which will help you learn how to capture and save the maximum amount of water possible in your garden site.

Module 14: Greywater and Water Catchment Guide

Laura Allen | Co-Founder, Greywater Action / Author, The Water-Wise Home

Continuing the theme of water conservation, we follow up Brock’s lesson in Basin Relations with an in-depth, nuts-and-bolts talk from Laura Allen, water conservation expert. In this session, Laura walks us through a variety of options you can implement to turn your laundry or shower into a source of irrigation for your landscape. You’ll learn just how much water comes off of your roof when it rains and how to capture that. We explore these solutions in degrees of difficulty and DIY-ness, and meet you where you’re at on your personal gung-ho scale of commitment to water conservation.

Module 15: Intro to Biodynamic Growing

Grover Stock | Formerly Sr. Design Consultant, Permaculture Artisans

(Returned to the Earth on September 13th, 2020)

Biodynamic agriculture, first introduced by Rudolph Steiner, involves the most holistic approach to soil and food production. It treats soil fertility, plant growth, and livestock care as ecologically interrelated tasks. You might have heard about biodynamic in terms of soils or compost — casually or otherwise. Suffice to say that biodynamic soil is the richest, most fertile of its kind. In this rare recorded conversation Grover Stock, Senior Designer for Permaculture Artisans and self-described ‘biodynamic permaculturist’, we’ll introduce you to biodynamic soil and show you a variety of avenues to work this awesome soil into your own food forest.

Session 16: We’re All Indigenous, An Ancestral Wisdom Meditation

Joshua Angelo Silva | Founder of The Permaculture Convergence

This session gives us moment to pause and consider the collective wisdom and voices of our ancestors, to help us re-discover a deeper connection with the natural landscape. Whether that is your garden plot or something a little less manicured, the wisdom of our elders is always available to us in the great unfolding of these times. Leading educator, NorCal Permaculture Convergence Organizer and facilitator Joshua Angelo Silva teaches us how to listen to the ancestral voices, how to be a mirror for each other in building community, and explore simple acts you can take to stay grounded on your own path.

Module 17: After the Harvest, Preserving and Seed Saving

Sara McCamant | Garden Manager, Ceres Project

So you’ve done all of the work — planning, planting, and all of the stewardship and self-discovery in between. Your reward? A bountiful harvest. Now what? What do you do with all of this amazing food you’ve grown? In this session, we chat with Sara McCamant — Garden Manager for the Ceres Community Project, Founder of the West County Community Seed Exchange, and expert with 30+ years gardening experience. Sara will take a step back and teach you how to plan your garden with your menu in mind, and then plan your menu based on what’s popping in your garden. You’ll get introduced to a variety of ideas for saving the food — and how to avoid having to preserve so many jars of tomatoes. Lastly, you’ll get an in-depth primer on saving seeds, the key to future garden production and a great tool for building community.

Meet Your Hosts

Ixchel Lunar and Jaimey Walking Bear

Ixchel holds a Permaculture Design Certificate taught by the late Toby Hemenway and Daily Acts, an MA from California Institute of Integral Studies with a focus in Integral Ecology, and a BA in Women’s Studies from Mills College. She is a 2007 Fellow of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and Economy.


Jaimey (that’s him with Seth Godin!) has built a long career of more than 20 years working in the event, tech, entertainment, and retail sectors — including O’Reilly Media, Digital Summit, Modev, and various music festivals over the years.


I’ve been blessed with the privilege to work directly with hundreds of amazing thought leaders — from luminaries like Seth Godin, Ann Handley, Tim O’Reilly, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Chris Brogan — to an ever-growing assortment of industry experts (i.e. “ridiculously smart, awesome people”).


I love being in the thick of it, connecting subject experts, thought leaders, musicians, and other creatives — with the professional opportunities to be amazing and transform the world for the better. To quote Mr. Brogan, I love being the elbow of the deal. Serving others. Being the spark that lights bridges to holy cow opportunities for thriving communities.