Our Work
We work collaboratively to create dynamic, integrated, and biodiverse landscapes lovingly inhabited and stewarded by people.
We seek to connect people to the source of their sustenance and feel empowered in making good decisions in the implementation and management of their projects.
Our Story
We started Resilience Permaculture Design in 2010, and are thrilled to have served so many people and ecosystems by creating more diversity and resilience while integrating people and place.
We have many years of hands-on experience teaching about, designing, and installing Permaculture-oriented systems specializing in regenerative agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, ecosystem restoration, and water harvesting.
About Us
Abel holds a degree in Land Stewardship for Sustainable Communities from Humboldt State University and a MS in Agroforestry from the University of Missouri.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Komemma Cultural Protection Association, Agroforestry Northwest, and the Upper Willamette Soil and Water Conservation District.
He is also the Restoration Forestry Program Director at the Center for Rural Livelihoods (formerly Aprovecho).
Abel Kloster
Tao holds a degree in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from UC Santa Cruz and a MSc degree in Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
She is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015).
Tao is an instructor and program administrator in the Permaculture program at Oregon State University and serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Rural Livelihoods
Tao Orion
Our Family
Our family is a big part of our lives. Our two children are homeschooled, and a great inspiration for the work we do in building long-term site, family, and community resilience.
Sometimes they join us on site visits.
They love tracking, bird identification, music, drawing, making fires, climbing, jumping, swimming, riding bikes, and stargazing.
Our Farm
We live with our family on Viriditas Farm ~ our smallholding in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon.
We raise a variety of annual and perennial vegetables, fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, nuts, chickens, ducks, quail, and Icelandic sheep.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that the land we call home sits within the traditional homelands of the Yoncalla Band of the Kalapuya people, and we seek to honor their long legacy of land and resource stewardship through careful observation and conscientious engagement with ecosystems both at home and in our regional work.
We are actively involved in several projects directly supporting local Indigenous people and communities.
Banner Art - “Coexistence 2” by Surabhi Gaikwad Uzgare