Josh Feyen

I have always been a farmer. Raised on one in Wisconsin's driftless area, I'm now an urban farmer in Madison, cultivating a butterfly waystation in the terrace, growing fruit in the front yard, raising chickens with neighbors on one side of the house and a kitchen garden on the other, and producing food in hugelculture and traditional raised garden beds in the back. With solar panels on the house, an electric car in the garage and community living inside the house, I try to include a sustainable component to all aspects of living on Earth. I co-organize a community garden, am interested in Madison's local food system and I'm keenly watching the Madison Public Market development, soon to be located just down the street from my family's home. I earned my permaculture design certificate in 2013 and am currently a graduate student in the Edgewood College Sustainability Leadership Master's Program.