I was born in 1952 in the St. Ann’s watershed. I am a multi media conceptual artist/maker, permaculture designer,  deep ecologist and bioregional animist with a focus on promoting an ecological awareness for evolving regenerative human cultures appropriate to place.

Motivated by my experience, while living in Ontario, Canada in the 80s, of connecting with the Bioregional Movement, which grew out of the “back to the land,” intentional communities, cultural experiments of the sixties, I returned to Trinidad in 1994 to share this vision.

I am a founding member, research officer and technical advisor to the award winning Community Based Organization, the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP).

I attended the 9th North American Bioregional Congress at Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina to invite Peter Bane to teach the first Permaculture Design Course in Trinidad & Tobago in 2007 and, since then, I have been teaching and designing using Permaculture Principles around the Caribbean. I registered the non profit NPO, the Foundation for the Bioregional Autonomy of the Orinoco Watershed (FBAOW) in 2017 and the first project we are working on is the forest regeneration of the POS watershed. In 2023 I initiated, “D’ Bush ‘s Cool” Wilderness Connection Camp for children of all ages to spend unstructured time away from the manmade environment, on the T&T Permaculture Institute site that I host.

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