https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/9abaeea4-4833-4703-8fa2-207f283435f0 Verge is now 5th World. Subscribe to 5th World for news stories, valuable insights, and expert tips on living regeneratively: https://www.youtube.com/@5thworld_com Visit www.5thworld.comSara Haney and Chrissy Begus are piecing together the puzzle of sustainability through their education company Puzzle Permaculture, which currently offers permaculture workshops in schools, corporate lunch-n-learns, some adult teaching programs. They also co-hosted a very successful permaculture garden tour in 2012. Sara and Chrissy's upbeat and engaging energy, unique scale models and undeniable experience as public speakers and educators is in high demand, and even since the shooting of this video, has grown steadily. Sara's yard is also a shining example of urban permaculture design. Starting from scratch, her and her husband began cutting up the concrete slab that was formerly their backyard to expose the soil, and from there have birthed an incredible example of the powers of permaculture design. At their home they have 3 bee hives, a young food forest and veggie garden which together contain an amazing variety of plants, a greenhouse (where they grew sub tropical plants such as okra and have an outdoor shower!), passive rainwater collection system, swales, wicking beds, cold frames, and more. When we came by to visit the yard for our first time in early April of 2012, we were amazed to see that Sara was already harvesting spinach and other greens from some of her cold frame gardens! Beyond the beauty and functionality of the garden project, Sara has managed to foster a great relationship and open dialogue with the neighbours, some of whom even popped by to say hello while we were filming. When she's not teaching or gardening, Sara also runs Apple Tree Sustainables - featuring a blog that documents her and her husbands' yard transformation, and also natural body products which she makes and sells herself. These two inspiring women show how permaculture design can foster hope for a better future, offer practical solutions and action steps, as well as help people take their skills or professional background and turn it into a small side business or full time entrepreneurial venture. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:40:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/9abaeea4-4833-4703-8fa2-207f283435f0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.