Patrick O'Connor

Patrick O'Connor began his participation in permaculture through the Sonoran Permaculture Guild. He has spent a good bit of time in agricultural training service through groups like the Green Corn Project, World Hunger Relief, and City Slicker Farms. He's worked as a construction worker, a farmhand, and currently works as a gardener in the greater East Bay. He's a member of the California Rare Fruit Growers, International Plant Propagators Society, and the Home Orchard Society. His interests lie in dialectics, agroecology, and scale-free self-sufficiency. Patrick's a transplant to Oakland who originally hails from the sunny borderland city of Tucson, Arizona, where his formative years were spent with pellet rifle in hand roaming arroyos between ranch land and ever-encroaching suburbs.