Working as a human rights lawyer and mediator, Heather Unger and Paul Kruse have sought ways to create balance in relationships among people and with the earth.
Encountering permaculture, they were delighted to find it is possible to not only sustain the earth as it is, but to restore, to regenerate, to heal the earth. Paul and Heather founded Northern Grove as their offering within the emerging regenerative economy, providing holistic tree care and permaculture design, consultation and education.
Heather and Paul live at their 40 acre permaculture homestead, northeast of Winnipeg, where they apply the permaculture principles they teach.
Rather than seeing human activity as necessarily damaging to the earth, Paul and Heather seek to partner with earth to be a benefit - to regenerate ecosystems, create ecological and economic resilience, and benefit their community. In that sense, they hope to make as large a ‘footprint’ as possible.