Farmer by day, writer by night
Heather Jo Flores
courses, challenges, toolkits
Resources, Courses, and Community for Creative Women Who Love Plants
Select from a unique collection of unique and original courses & resources based on permaculture, friendship marketing, the heroine's journey. I specialize in stuff for women writers, but you don't have to be a writer nor a woman to enjoy my work-all types of creative people will love these resources.
Design Your Daily Practice
Use a linear process to reorganize your life for optimum creativity.
Permaculture Writing Challenge
Re-wild your writing practice with this nature-based 21-day challenge.
Wild Women Writing Challenge
Make a 40-day commitment to your practice with this challenge.
Writing the Heroine's Journey
Explore an eco-feminist take on the traditional hero's journey.
Learn Permaculture Design, Online
In addition to the portal for creative women, I curate and co-organize two full-scale permaculture courses--one is a collection of 52 classes, available for free, and the other is a mentored permaculture certificate course, by and for women.
Permaculture Women's Guild
I direct an international collaboration of teachers, students, and dirty-hands permaculture practitioners, working together to heal the Earth.
The #freepermaculture project
This project offers 52 FREE weekly classes, starting at the beginning and moving through the process of designing a sustainable homestead.
344-pages of permaculture how-to
Food Not Lawns, How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
This was my first book, published in 2006 and based on a decade of community gardening and grassroots activism. Read the entire, original text, with more than 90 original illustrations by Jackie Holmstrom, for free:
Articles & Publications
I write often, and on a diversity of topics. I also curate an online magazine for women in permaculture. Here's a selection of recent work.
about gardening and permaculture
How to Grow Food in the City
8 places you might be able to garden if you don’t have access to land
How to Learn Permaculture for Free
...and also lots of tips for finding ways to fund your permaculture education.
Eat the Weeds!
12 Delicious and Nutritious Edible Weeds and How to Include Them in Your Diet
about women, writing, and the heroine's journey
So you say you're not a feminist?
Here are a bunch of reasons you are, even if you don't think so.
read my novel
Naked Lady Soup
Part memoir, part manifesto, part magical realism, this fast and funny novel tells the story of a group of young, creative, single women trying to navigate the absurd and hilarious woes of modern relationships while also trying to stay sane, make the rent, and manage to enjoy what's left of their youth. Written in 2008, 180 pages, free.
courses, challenges, toolkits
My best writing goes into the work I create for students.
Select from a unique collection of unique and original resources, sure to help you unleash your best self!