Mark Cohen
Mark has been practicing permaculture and sustainable agriculture since 1977. He has taught ethnobotany, cultural ecology, systems analysis, and agricultural design both in the US and internationally
About this speaker
Mark Cohen has a background in wildlife biology, ecology, ethnobotany, permaculture, cooperative land use, and renewable energy. He has been an organic inspector with OEFFA for 26 years, as well as a permaculture designer, organic farmer, apiculturalist, mycologist, philosopher, and business consultant.
He lives in Southern Ohio at Far Valley Farm, a 30-year old intentional community he helped co-found. He founded the Belize Agroforestry Research Center, a permaculture research and teaching facility based in Southern Belize, and spent 25 winters in Central America practicing and teaching tropical permaculture.