TOOLS INSPIRED BY BIG ANIMALS
Rebel Garden Tools are designed by forester, forager, & citizen-scientist, Wilson Alvarez, with input & feedback from his friend, farmer & herbalist, Benjamin Lavan.
The tools were created utilizing biomimicry & permaculture principles.
Each tool's form & function is highly ergonomic, inspired by Wilson's many years of observing & researching the ways in which large wild animals shape their landscape through highly specialized disturbances that give rise to long-term stability within the ecosystem.
The tools are manufactured locally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania using the highest quality materials, & have been tried and tested by numerous colleagues & friends, with overwhelmingly positive feedback.
Wilson Alvarez is a certified permaculture designer, an inventor, gardener, skilled tracker, bowyer, nature-awareness instructor, & writer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the Woodland Steward at The Horn Farm Center in York County, Pennsylvania. He has studied & taught classes & workshops on bio-intensive agriculture, regenerative technology, foraging, hunting, trapping & tracking, agroforestry, & wilderness survival. He has a Kamana II certification through Jon Young's Wilderness Awareness School, received his PDC online via Permaculture Visions, & studied applied archaeology at Prescott College.
Benjamin Lavan is a certified permaculture designer & teacher, an herbalist, forager, farmer, musician, & writer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He studied natural building & ecovillage design at The Farm Ecovillage Training Center, received a permaculture teacher certification from CRMPI, completed a beekeeping apprenticeship at The Horn Farm Center, received a certificate in forest garden design with Dave Jacke, & has studied herbalism with Sarah Preston of Radiance. Ben has facilitated permaculture design courses & many other classes & workshops, has designed and managed five farms, forages professionally, & co-manages Susquehanna Botanicals.
