Farmer Clare Hintz talks about a topic near and dear to her heart: using ecological design and drawing from a number of traditions to steward our land and produce healthy food to boot. She has a 40-acre farm near the south shore of Lake Superior in Herbster, Wis. She uses organic practices and permaculture design principles and now has about 700 fruit and nut trees, with about half in full production mode. Her intensively planted market garden features heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable varieties, bees, and rare-breed Icelandic chickens.