Oonaugh Foster-Bill (creator of this site) is a twenty-year-old first-year student at Evergreen State College with a passion for sustainable agriculture, land restoration, and indigenous ecological knowledge. She was born in Seattle and grew up in Indianola, WA, exploring tide flats and swimming in the Puget Sound. Oonaugh has volunteered for various climate activist organizations over the years and spent her gap year after high school walking the Spanish Camino, painting on the West Coast of Ireland, and volunteering for a Costa Rican conservation organization on the Osa Peninsula.
During her time on the Osa Peninsula, she read the book Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka, which made her realize that addressing the crises we face today must begin with healing human relationship to land and food. When Oonaugh returned home she spent the summer before Fall quarter at Evergreen living and working on an organic farm called Persephone. Now in her third quarter at Evergreen, Oonaugh is excited to continue exploring human relationships to land and food through participating in the Gilo Eggplant variety trial project in collaboration with the Land Based Learning program taught by Sarah Williams. She will contribute by helping to collect data and research for an initial writeup of the ‘Gilo’ eggplant vigor study and writing weekly reflections on WordPress.