Jo Fuchs(she/her) is bridging the gap between teaching, farming and herbalism. She recently graduated from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture with a degree in Sustainable Food and Farming, specializing in permaculture and agricultural education. She also studies and practices herbalism at a community scale, acting as a matchmaker between people and well-suited medicinal plants. At university, she obtained a Permaculture Design Certificate and served as Student Coordinator of the UMass Permaculture Initiative, managing beautiful and diverse educational gardens, coordinating volunteers, hosting and running educational programming and coordinating a student farmers’ market. Having found her love for spiritual-based land tending at a Jewish farm in Denver called Ekar Farm, she has pursued holistic tending to both ourselves and the land, seeing where we meet. Jo seeks to find collaborative pathways in which healing ourselves helps us to heal our culture and the land. She lives at Sirius Ecovillage in Western Massachusetts on Nipmuc and Pocomtuck land, practicing self-governance and Nonviolent Communication(NVC). She is immersed in the intentional communities movement, solidarity economy, holistic western herbalism, and the continued practice of finding joy and connection through working with her community on land.