Founded In 2018, Good Earth Gardens, LLC Is A F
ull Service Regenerative Farm & Landscape Company.
Based in Southern Oregon, We Offer Consultation, Education, Design & Build Services For Clients Across Southern Oregon, Northern California & Beyond.
Our work is based on the permaculture ethics:
EARTH CARE - PEOPLE CARE - FAIR SHARE
We believe humans are an integral part of nature and as such, our interaction with the ecosystems and beings around us can and should be a positive, mutually beneficial regenerative one. As opposed to the misconception of humans only being capable of a negative influence on their surroundings and striving to have a small carbon footprint, we believe in the paradigm that humans can have a large, positive footprint on our surroundings! A Regenerative One!
We bring these ethics and mindset to our work, with a focus on creating systems that regenerate the soil, create diverse wildlife habitat, restore watersheds & heal the land all while growing abundant food and medicine and creating beautiful, functional resilient landscapes. Working at all scales and contexts; from backyard gardens to rural acreage, homestead to farm and ranch, commercial building to community center, village to watershed we strive to help our clients, and the communities we work in, implement regenerative practices and realize abundant resilience on projects large and small. We invite you to join us on this path.
"Permaculture is what we use to put into action our growing understanding that humans must fit into the web-work of the rest of life...It gives us tools for social justice and for working together. To use a Buddhist analogy, it tells us how to do the “chop wood and carry water” work that remains after enlightenment; in this case, the enlightenment of gaining a whole-systems perspective After your world changes, there’s plenty of work to be done. That work is permaculture."
- Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden-A guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Lion Waxman
Founder & Lead Designer/Technician
Lion was born and grew up in Queens, NY with his first job at the age of 14 spending a summer working at the Queens County Farm (at the time, the only working farm in New York City). As a young adult, he spent years traveling around the world, volunteering and studying sustainability and permaculture in places such as Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Israel, Palestine, the USA and more.
His travels and studies brought him to become a certified Permaculture Designer, Master Gardener, Land Steward and Sustainable Community Agriculture Guide. He holds a B.A. in Social & Environmental Sustainability, and a M.S. in Ecological Landscape Design from The Conway School of Sustainable Landscape Planning & Design. He has also completed coursework in advanced site grading, surveying for water & earthworks, ecological restoration, natural farming practices, and a permaculture teacher training.
His 14+ years experience in the field include: regenerative farm design & development, ecological landscape construction, irrigation system design and installation, agricultural research, soil health regeneration, food forest implementation, community organic waste system education, organic farm management, school garden projects, as well as teaching classes & workshops on regenerative agriculture, natural farming/gardening, rainwater harvesting and permaculture.
Lion has been living and working in Southern Oregon for the last 6 years, currently living in the hills outside of Talent on the traditional lands of the Latgawa.
Lion holds a Landscape Construction Professional License with the Oregon Landscape Contractors Board LCP #16259
