Entries by Tom DeCoste
Tom developed Foxgreen Farms, LLC as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction, and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, sailor, friend, and backcountry traveler continually informs Tom’s integrative approach to understanding and developing landscapes and buildings. His home landscape serves as a laboratory for the permaculture and human habitat projects of Foxgreen Farm, LLC. Tom has studied biology, conservation ecology, the sociology of medicine, and comparative religious ethics at the graduate level. He has managed access to over 3000 acres of wilderness in Maine while protecting the ecology of the land and watershed. Tom is the author of the world’s most popular and informative blog on the cultivation of Seabuckthorn and agro-ecology. http://www.seaberry-hippophaerhamnoides.blogspot.com. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 demanded a response and Tom was recruited to assist the development and implementation of what is now the largest global counter-terrorist organization in the world. Dedicating a decade of involvement with that project, he was growing dissatisfied with the direction the organization was taking. He discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Tom, together with his companion, compatriot, ally, business partner, and buddy Craig are creating a rural permaculture site in Central Maine.
