Discovering permaculture in 1995 put Andy Polkey and his wife Angie on a life-long path of learning and growing, 25 years of that path rooted on and in their place in mid Wales. Professionally he has worked in conservation for almost 40 years and finds the ‘edge’ between ecology and permaculture a fruitful and fascinating zone of cross fertilisation and interaction. But he is primarily and passionately a gardener, and since leaving full time work you can now find him spending many of his waking hours practising gardening as meditation.