Canyon Cassidy

I was born in Carson City Nevada and raised in historic Virginia City. I was told that when I was less than a year old as I spent time in a garden everyday. By the time I was 7 or 8 I snuck a handful of seeds from my mother’s collection and walked to a nearby vacant lot to make a small garden plot with nothing more than a stick. It was a simple set of rows with seeds planted every 5 or 6 inches in un-tilled soil. The plot was actually on a neighbor’s property and luckily they were not offended by my attempt at planting a garden. I soon forgot about the garden. The garden was uprotected, open to the sky, rabbits, dogs, coyotes, squirrels, deers. Walking on an early summer day I happened across the little garden plot and was surprised to see cabbages, carrots, lettuces, spinach, radishes and few other plants I did not recognize. I sampled the spinach, cabbage, the lettuce, radishes and a few carrots. That was it, I was a gardener from then on.

A as perpetual student I practice Permaculture and study as a regular part of life. I received a Permaculture Design Certificate in 2015 while pursuing an Associates Degree in Science. I look forward to finishing a degree program in the meantime I also manage a small lapidary studio.