Our Team
Marlo Weekley
Founder, Lead Designer
Marlo is a visionary ecologist and the founder of Forest Fruits Permaculture. Her journey into the regenerative movement began when she joined food-justice advocate and artist Hugh Pocock’s Sustainability and Social Justice group at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010.

“I am a practicing permaculturist of over fifteen years, but first and foremost, I am an artist. I have been an artist my whole life; a painter, an illustrator, and a mixed media artist. I could spend my whole day mixing and exploring color pallets to portray my philosophies and political concepts. But when I learned that the world needed healing maybe even more than it needed art, I changed the course of my career path to pursue ecology and regenerative design.
And when I came to really understand permaculture, I came to view that as an art form as well. The world needs more permaculture, and it also needs more beauty: places of hope that provide a beacon for the making of a new civilization that is healthy and just— through and through, and responsible with its methods of industry and resource management.”
After visiting several urban and rural permaculture sites in New England, she traveled to the West Coast to obtain her Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) at the Regenerative Leadership Institute on a historic farm of the Underground Railroad in Los Altos Hills, CA.
Marlo knew she wanted to gather every ounce of knowledge, experience, immersion, and exposure to all the different ways people live close to the earth, and that a PDC was only the beginning. She wanted to discover her own methods to care for the land, and for each other together in synergy, mutual aid, and harmony with the great web of diverse life on Earth. She knew there was so much more to be discovered through the lessons of our ancestors and stories of the past, and the greatest challenge would be to do this in a context of modern science and conventional land stewardship.
During a political theater apprenticeship that took place on an organic farm in rural Vermont, at the Bread and Puppet Theatre, she heard about an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree program in which she could pursue answers to all of her pressing questions about ecology, anthropology, and specifically what caused such a divide between the two. This program at Goddard College was a low-residency, remote independent study that enabled her to discover answers to these questions through real, hands-on experience.
Eager to dive deeper into the ways of living in a rural permaculture lifestyle, she quickly discovered Aprovecho Sustainability Education Center in Cottage Grove, OR, where she spent over two years both as student and intern, learning to caretake the 40 acre nearly-off-grid permaculture community that fed over 30 people during her residency.
Continuing her independent study at Goddard, she interned at regenerative living sites across the country, including Students of Sustainability, the EF Journal House, the Passion Vine Farm, Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center, Twin Oaks Community, Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School's Seed to Table Program, La Casita Azul, Satellite Artist Residency of the Arts & Culture Lab, Thrivendale, Forest Sanctuary of the One, and Mickey Kleinhenz's Inwood Eden, to name a few.
Carrying these life-changing experiences into her career, she went on to spend over a decade in boots-on-the-ground professional work, from working with five different sustainable landscape installation crews to designing, implementing, and maintaining permaculture landscapes independently across the United States.
Her expertise today includes everything from rain gardens to rare edible plant propagation. She has contributed her skills in urban and rural settings alike, spanning across Texas, Maryland, Washington, Oregon, and Florida, and most recently in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, at Tierramor Regenerative Living and Retreat Center, and the Four Trees Jungle Lodge in a little surf town called Escamequita. She is currently honing her craft of regenerative land management and education alongside her passion for eco-conscious hospitality and innovative experience curation by partnering with eco-retreat centers and event organizers in Florida, where she currently resides.
Elizabeth Levick
Permaculture Designer
Elizabeth Levick stands at the leading edge of regenerative design with over a decade of hands-on experience in ecological estate management in both the United States and France. With a Master’s of Architecture from the University of Colorado Denver and Design-Build Certification from the Colorado Building Workshop, she is our go-to for construction-ready detail, making all of our projects practical, beautiful, and built to last.
Elizabeth began her ecological path early on at the Regenerative Community Design at Hampshire College’s School of Architecture, where she studied green building, herbalism, permaculture, and community organizing. This led her to obtain her Permaculture Design Certificate from the renowned Naropa University in 2018. Elizabeth’s applied work spans regions and cultures, serving as a permaculture designer and estate manager in Boulder, Colorado and Montréal, France. Her passionate work is rooted in the belief that design has the power to not only repair ecosystems, but also strengthen communities, and truly bring a regenerative future for humanity into functional form.
We have two choices for the future:
We can work together to take care of the Earth and each other, or we can keep doing things the way we’ve been doing it, and watch things fall apart.
The future is in your hands.
