Plant Propagation: Growing Abundance
Wild Heart Farm | Verde Valley
Welcome dreamers, earth lovers, and plant people! In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn practical plant propagation techniques—including seeds, cuttings, and division—to multiply abundance in gardens and community spaces. Building on our foundational permaculture design course, students will mentor community members while deepening their own skills. All experience levels are welcome.
You will leave with new skills and plant materials to get growing in your neighborhood.
Pricing & Pay-It-Forward Options
This workshop is offered using a sliding scale to support accessibility and collective care. Please choose the level that best reflects your current capacity. All offerings are received with gratitude.
Scholarship – $25
For those who would benefit from additional financial support at this time.Sustaining / Supporter – $35
The true cost of the workshop. Choosing this level helps sustain our teaching and the land.Benefactor – $45
For those who feel able to give a little more. This level helps support scholarship spots and makes education accessible to others.
No proof, no explanation required—trust yourself to choose what feels aligned.
About the Instructors
Rosemary Logan and Kate Watters first met and became friends sharing a tent under a Boojum tree on a field trip with an ethnobotany class taught by Gary Nabhan in 2002. Both were pursuing their masters in sustainable communities at Northern Arizona University. They partnered again in 2004 when Kate helped start the Colton Community Garden and Rosemary enthusiastically continued to cultivate it with the help of FALA and NAU students. Now it is a treasured community learning and growing space (thanks to the garden-based passion of Fritz Fritzinger). Rosemary and Kate continue deepen their friendship and collaboration by bringing education out of the classroom and farming out of the dirt to grow permaculture principles and practices with groups and in community, always with an ambitious itinerary and wild hope for transformation.
More about Rosemary
Rosemary Logan has called Flagstaff, Arizona, home for 25 years. While plants and growing food (and community!) have long been a passion for Rosemary, it was her time living at Earlham College’s Miller Farm (‘98-’00) that first introduced her to permaculture. Bill Mollison’s Designer Manual was weekend reading, inspiring her to finally obtain her Permaculture Design Certificate (The Permaculture Project, Wayne Weissman) in 2011 while she and her husband built their passive solar home, and she completed her PhD in Education for Sustainability at Prescott College (2013). She later completed her teacher training in permaculture (Pandora Thomas, Lisa DiPiano) in 2017 and a second PDC through the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute in Colorado in 2019 (Adam Brock, Jerome Osentowski, Creighton Hofeditz, Avery Ellis). She started integrating permaculture into her teaching at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in 2013, including study abroad programs to Scotland and Aotearoa/New Zealand; with support from Wayne Weissman and The Permaculture Project, she co-designed and co-taught her first design course for NAU in 2019, and again, sponsored by the Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Project, taught the course for the larger community in 2021, and for NAU in 2023. She has been deeply inspired by her conversations and dreamings with Kate on how to deepen the community and relational practice of permaculture and regenerative design, and is both humbled and honored to work with her on this exciting offering!
More about Kate
Kate Watters has called Northern Arizona home ever since she stepped off the Amtrak train 30 years ago. Kate has been weaving the fields of permaculture, botany, restoration and farming together since her studies at NAU in 2000. At the time a seed was planted at a talk on home scale permaculture by Toby Hemenway and she began with swales and guilds in her backyard. For 15 years Kate studied plants and led groups of volunteers to protect, restore and plant communities on public lands, which too often meant slaying them with herbicide. She co-wrote a book, River and Desert Plants of the Grand Canyon (2006). She longed to care for land more intimately and intentionally, so Kate answered a mid-life call to become a farmer and apprenticed Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming in 2015. She started a native seed cooperative, gardened for a chef at a farm-to-table lodge, and started a farm-grown wedding floral design and herbal business. All the while she dreamed of having a place to root down and grow beauty and biological diversity—in 2020 Wild Heart Farm became that dream in material form. Kate and her sister Kelly completed a PDC with Sonoran Permaculture Guild in 2024. This course helped them reframe much of the farm design around regenerative practices and rest and experiential education. She loves teaming up with Rosemary to bring people of all ages together for hands-on learning experiences at the farm and beyond to grow more resilient gardens and communities.
Community Instructors
Bradley Tremper
Growing up in a household where there was always a backyard project in progress, Bradley is a lifelong tinkerer and plant geek. He is a dedicated student and is constantly building his knowledge through daily reading and hands-on experimentation. Bradley has worked with plants professionally since his high school job at a plant nursery, then for four years as the caretaker of the Northern Arizona University teaching greenhouse while earning his BS in Biology. Bradley’s introduction to Permaculture was in the summer of 2005 when he spent the summer working with Karen Taylor in the Merkin Vineyard’s food forest in Jerome, AZ. While studying Nutritional Biochemistry in grad school, Bradley realized the power of food as medicine and becameinfatuated with agriculture. He and his then future-wife Brandie decided to embark on an agricultural adventure and WWOOFed in South America for 6 months. Upon returning home, Bradley and Brandie decided to give farming on their own a go and started the Sandy Spade farm in the Skagit Valley, WA. Their farm mentors there included Anne Schwartz of Blue Heron Farm, Jim Myer of Cascadian Farm and Matt Van Boven, the creator of the Feral Farm, a 50 acre food forest in Rockport, WA. Matt has been a strong inspiration to Bradley’s evolving permaculture philosophies. After returning to Flagstaff in 2013, Bradley managed the Flagstaff Community Market for four years. In 2022, Bradley and Brandie purchased two acres in east Flagstaff and started Forces of Nature Farm. In addition to being a testing ground and learning space, the aim of FNF is to provide nursery plants for the edible landscaping and Permaculture design service that Bradley and Brandie will be offering in 2026.
John Taylor
John Taylor is a gardener and educator born and raised in Flagstaff, AZ. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in the History of Art from Yale University, and a Master’s Degree in Business from the University of Texas at Austin. For ten years he owned and operated a landscape design, install and maintenance company; and also worked as an ecological restoration contractor. Since 2009 Mr. Taylor has worked in the Flagstaff Unified and Coconino County School Districts leading hands-on garden and sustainability programs.
In 2012 John founded Terra BIRDS, a non-profit organization with mission to educate and empower youth through gardening to help prepare them as the stewards of a sustainable future for humanity.