ABOUT US

Jude Hobbs
As a permaculture designer, horticulturist, and instructor, Jude's focus is on environmental design solutions for rural and sub/urban settings.

In 1982, she founded Cascadia Landscape Design, a business specializing in integrating permaculture techniques that blend function and aesthetics. As part of the design process Jude, and whomever she works with, create a master plan based on whole systems. These systems may include: structure types and location, water harvesting, soil building, appropriate plant selection, forestry, appropriate technology, and animals. These elements endeavor to provide year round productivity and beauty.

Jude is an associate with Agro-Ecology Northwest, a research and consultancy group working with small-scale farmers. This group offers design plans that emphasize efficiency and productivity. Her experience working on farms and ranches allows her an understanding of the challenges that interface farming and economic realities.

Jude has developed projects in rural, residential, commercial, and institutional areas.

Jude has written A Guide to Multi-Functional Hedgerows for Oregon State University Extension Service. Many states are requesting farmers include buffer zones along waterways to encourage fish habitat. Jude is engaged in research that demonstrates the environmental and potential economic value of good watershed management through the inclusion of income-producing crops within these zones.

Winter Garden

As an Instructor
By developing curricula that encompasses diverse learning styles, Jude's teaching techniques are intended to be fun, accessible, and inspiring.

Jude has been teaching workshops and courses for 18 years in such places as the Northwest, California and Hawaii. She also enjoys presenting at agricultural and horticultural conferences.

Community Involvement
An avid volunteer, Jude is a community organizer and food activist. She is currently on the board of Williamette Farm and Food Coalistion, the steering committee for Eugene Permaculture Guild, and a member of the Long Tom Watershed Council.

She is active in cultural transformation by supporting the health of the environment and its inhabitants.

Jude tends 7.5 acres south of Cottage Grove, Oregon where there are abundant micro-climates to learn from.