I'm a mental health nurse with over a decade of clinical experience. A permaculture designer who lives and works on Little Tern Farm, a property I designed on Yaegl Country in the Clarence Valley, NSW. A PhD candidate researching the intersection of ecological design and mental health. A homeschooling mother. A person living with a chronic health condition inside a life I designed to hold it.

I am not sharing a version of health I read about. I built it. I tend it. I live inside it every day, including the hard days.

I believe the most radical thing you can do for your health is design the conditions for it to grow.

My Approach

My work sits at the intersection of mental health, social prescribing, permaculture and education.

I run The Permaculture Nurse, where I partner with health professionals and health services to bring ecological design thinking into clinical practice, and I work with individuals ready to stop managing their life and start designing it.

The framework I've been developing applies permaculture's ethics and design principles to human health across every zone of a person's life.

Zone 00 is you, your nervous system, your rhythms, your emotional architecture. Zone 6 is your village, the community web that either sustains or depletes you. Most permaculture designers map Zones 1-5. I expand the frame inward and outward, because a well-designed garden doesn't hold much if the person tending it is running on empty.

Grounded in science. Rooted in care. Sparked by creativity and coffee.

Why Permaculture

Here's what I know after years of nursing, researching, farming and mothering: health is not a destination. It's not a supplement stack or a morning routine you found on the internet. It's a living, dynamic, sometimes messy ecosystem that needs good design, honest observation, and the right conditions to regenerate over time.

Permaculture gave me the language and the tools. The slow, creative work of tending regenerative gardens, programs and care systems that help people be healthier, joyful, connected and resilient, from soil to soul. That's what I'm here for.