I hope your hearts are healing from the loss of our beloved Toby. We here
in Sonoma County at the Permaculture Skills Center are missing Toby, yet we
are trying to move forward and heal as we strive to carry on his legacy by
welcoming in a new cohort of Ecological Landscapers and Farmers in our
Immersive permaculture programs that start this June, 2017.
In honor of his wisdom and gifts, we are starting a Toby Hemenway Memorial
Library here at the Permaculture Skills Center (PSC). This February, we
helped Toby’s wife Kiel transition his library away from her house to its
new permanent home at the PSC. One of Toby’s students who is an alumni of
our Ecological Landscaper Immersion program commissioned a beautiful inkpad
stamp and with it, we marked each book and created an inventory of his
extensive collection. This library will be made available to the public and
to the hundreds of students that pass through our campus each year. If you
are local to Northern California and would like to have access to and/or
help steward this incredible community resource, please let us know by
emailing us at admin@permacultureskillscenter.org.
We also planted a tree guild here in his honor and will continue to plant
more trees throughout our upcoming immersion programs...