FRANCES SUBBIONDO, (regenerative) Gardener, Designer, Builder, Chef

objective

regenerative service & learning -- progressive engagement in this evolving world

education

Advanced Permaculture Design Course -- (Dave Jacke), Sivananda Yoga Ranch -- October 2009

Village Building Convergence -- Portland, OR -- June 2009, participant

Teaching Permaculture Creatively (Dave Jacke + Co.) -- Camp Epworth, NY -- March 2009

Permaculture Design Certificate Courses -- (Green Phoenix) Camp Epworth, NY 2009

(Local Energy Solutions) New York City -- 2008

Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden -- Western Amazon Basin, Peru Fall, 2007, resident

San Francisco Botanical Garden, SF, CA -- 2002-2007, student, volunteer, gardeners assistant

B.Arch., B.A., Rice University (Architecture) -- Houston, TX -- 1997-2003 (- 01/ 02)

Metuchen High School -- Metuchen, NJ, 1993-1997

experience

Rancho Mastatal -- La Cangreja, Costa Rica -- Winter, 2010

intern at sustainable living, natural building center near the southwest coast of Costa Rica; scheduled to lead a

3 day introduction to permaculture course to the staff, interns & neighbors

Building Community Resilience -- Brattleboro, Vermont -- September, 2008

Forest Gardening Immersion Course -- Camp Epworth, NY -- January - April, 2010

(teaching)

We Co-Create: Regenerative Culture @ Home -- Brooklyn, NY -- December, 2009

organized & facilitated community-offered workshop series on diverse array of topics in & around the realm

of regenerative culture.

Open Center / Old Stone House PDC (w/ Claudia Joseph) -- New York City -- 2009

invited as guest presenter, to share & offer wisdom on Botanical Classification & Fermentation

Independent workshop offerings (nature works) -- New York City, New Jersey -- 2009

workshops presented on Urban Permaculture, Natural Foods, Fermentation, Introduction to Regeneration, &

collaborator on many others (esp. @ We Co-Create above)

(business)

Garden State Green Collar Futures -- NW New Jersey -- Fall, 2008 -- Present

developing, organizing, & building a start-up service-learning organization (with partner Elyssa Serrilli)

dedicated to re-skilling young, urban dwellers of the state of New Jersey, to perform the earthly &

community work of regeneration -- produced & submitted a competitive, pending, federal grant offered

by the US Department of Labor

FRANCES SUBBIONDO, (regenerative) Gardener, Designer, Builder, Chef

nature works -- New York, NY, Metuchen, NJ, & San Francisco, CA -- Fall, 2006 - Present

founded, and now design, structure, & grow this cooperative company as a force for maximum good

and minimal harm -- work as partner, offering: educational workshops; environmentally-regenerative, edible

gardens & landscapes; habitat creation; & service as personal plants-chef to all who hire.

Carlin s Gardens -- San Francisco, CA -- Summer, 2003 - Summer, 2006

served as gardener, project manager, crew manager, and client liaison handled all field

responsibilities for the daily operation of a 3-4 person gardening outfit chiefly responsible for the

execution of landscape installation, long-term garden maintenance, and plant pruning.

San Francisco Botanical Garden, at Strybing Arboretum -- SF, CA -- 2002, 2003, 2006

volunteered: in the arboretum nursery, caring for, and up-potting, young plants -- in the New World

Cloud Forest, building soil fertility and weeding invasive species then, in the California Native

Garden fostering indigenous habitats and supporting the local ecosystem.

skills & other of f erings

- intimate knowledge of system ecologies & regenerative design principles -

- familiarity with a wide array of construction systems & passive environmental design -

- soil builder, and at ease employing a variety of organic fertility regimens -

- applied experience in permaculture-inspired life & relationship design -

- well-versed in Adobe graphics programs & Apple-powered -

- compassionate, attentive interpersonal skills y hablo espa ol -

- plant, food & cultural enthusiast -

- transgender, edgewalker -

Frances Subbiondo 86 W. 12th St. New York, NY 10011

732-***-**** www.wearenatureworking.org - abpenb@r.postjobfree.com

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