Joshua Burman Thayer, Edible Silicon Valley contributor

Joshua Burman Thayer

Joshua is an Ecological and Permaculture Designer specializing in community food production. He has always had his hands in the Earth, having worked with plants and food with communities all over the Americas. 

Starting as a farm intern through the Willing Workers on Organic Farms Or (W.W.O.O.F.) program which places volunteers on organic farms throughout Latin America, Joshua also worked as a laborer on organic Community Supported Agriculture (C.S.A) farms back home in California and grown to oversee community gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an apprentice in ecological landscape design, and as a native plant field researcher he recieved a diverse horticultural and taxonomical knowledge hands on in the field. As a lead designer, his approach unites Ecology with Aesthetic, creating beautiful, productive natural systems that work with nature to foster bounty for both a healthy ecosystem as well as producing organic food on a community scale.