Dani Baker is an author and the owner of Cross Island Farms, an idyllic edible forest in upstate New York that attracts visitors and volunteers from across the country. For most of her adult life, Dani was a clinical psychologist—but ever since she was a kid, farming was in the back of her mind. When she retired, she bought her farm on Wellesley Island, took a community class about permaculture, and became tirelessly dedicated to creating the beautiful and fruitful food forest she has today.
We talked about Dani’s long and winding path to where she is now, how she learned about permaculture proactively by reading books and trying and failing, and how writing her recent book, The Home Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape, is the fulfillment of a lifelong goal. To learn more about Dani and her work, check out CrossIslandFarms.com.
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