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Jude Hobbs is a horticulturist, Permaculture designer, co-founder of Cascadia Permaculture Institute and the Eugene Permaculture Guild. Since 1982, she has provided whole system environmental design solutions in urban and rural settings. As an associate with Agro-Ecology Northwest, she works with small-scale farmers and two eco-labeling organizations, Salmon Safe and LIVE (Low Input Viticulture and Enology).

Jude has presented Permaculture workshops and courses throughout the West and Hawaii for 18 years, developing curricula that encompass diverse learning styles. She has co-facilitated over 60 Permaculture Design Courses and 9 Advance Pc Certification Courses in Teaching.

As a way to support local organizations, Jude is on the boards of the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition (lanefood.org), Eugene Permaculture Guild and the University of Oregon's CASL (Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living).

She has written an Oregon State University Bulletin (EM: 8721) A Guide to Multi-Functional Hedgerows and soon to be published: On-Farm Biodiversity Resource Guide: For Dry lands, Uplands, & the Maritime Northwest.

Jude, and her husband Jerome, tends a diverse 7.5 acre site in Cottage Grove, Oregon.