I think a lot of that has to do with like just reading the site and working with the plants that want to be there.

So it's not trying to force something. You know, it's responding. I think a lot of regenerative design or permaculture design is about responding to the existing conditions and working with the conditions.

Work with nature, not against it, you know.

Welcome back to The Beat Podcast. I'm your host today, Jacques. And today we are talking about permaculture.

Now, permaculture is something that I have always been really interested in. I've scratched the surface of it. I've kind of danced around the edges of it.

But I've never really felt like fully diving into it. And I think we'll get

into some of the reasons why. And I think this book addresses some of the reasons, because our

guest today is Brandy Hall from Shades of Green permaculture. And she just wrote a wonderful book,

I have to say so myself. It's called The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture. And it really takes away a lot of

the you're all in or you're nothing kind of aspects that I feel like a lot of permaculture

talks about. And you've done a really fantastic job of making it very approachable and applicable

to anyone in any scale at home. So thank you for doing that.

But why don't you introduce yourself? Thank you for coming on today. And let us know where you are and your gardening kind of background a little bit. Awesome. Thanks, Jacques. I thank you so much for having me on and for your kind words. That was exactly the intention. So I'm glad that came through. So my name is Brandy Hall and I am the founder and CEO of Shades of Green

Permaculture.

And we are located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

So we're a regenerative landscaping, design, build,

maintenance, lawn care we expanded into an education firm here in Atlanta. We have about

30 plus people on staff now, so we've grown a lot, especially post-pandemic when, you know, I

think people are spending more time in their yards and wanting to grow food and stay away from grocery stores and all the things that, you know, I think people were spending more time in their yards and wanting to grow food and

stay away from grocery stores and all the things that, you know, for the landscaping industry

were a boon and for other industries were more difficult.

Oh, yeah.

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