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What makes us unique?
HABITAT - Our gardens feature extensive plantings of natives, which have an ecological and cultural history to the place we call home.
ECOLOGICAL DESIGN - We mimic nature by using plant community design to enhance biodiversity and give your garden a sense of place.
ON-SITE RESOURCES - We try to reuse and repurpose everything within the garden. During site preparation, we identify key materials that can find a home within the garden again.
WASTE IS FOOD - Everything has a purpose within the ecosystem or a second life. We recycle old potting bags and pots or put "yard waste" into hugelkultur mounds to create a new raised beds.
LOCAL - Supporting local business and contributing to the community is important to us.
Keystone
Keystone Species: a species whose gifts within its ecosystem are so integral, that without them, the rest falls.
At Keystone Permaculture, we believe that humans have great capacity to be a collective benefit for Mother Earth. In choosing to be a steward who regenerates lands rather than degrading it, you become apart of the Keystone in the arch.
Why Permaculture?
We have power to change the land and the stories we tell ourselves. Instead of seeing ourselves as destructive, what if we could be the change for a much better world?
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What if we could adapt and work with our land, building a world that we belong to? This is the story we belong to.
Permaculture honors and speaks to this question; it is a whole systems design method and practice informed by Indigenous wisdom that brings people and land into communion.
Our Team
Gabriel Yetnikoff
Owner/Principal
Gabriel Yetnikoff grew up in San Rafael and graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Sustainability. Upon graduation, he traveled in Central America, volunteering on community-based projects, learning Spanish and putting Permaculture to practice. He has been designing native gardens for several years and loves creating place for people to connect with their land and be in deeper relationship.
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He is a member of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). ​He is most interested in cultivating resilience through land stewardship and spirit, finding that tending a garden is one of the best ways to do that. In his free time, he finds joy in sharing meals, playing beach volleyball, backpacking and nerding out about plants.