About Grow Wild Permaculture

Grow Wild Permaculture shares the wisdom of ecology and the knowledge of humanity’s ability to replenish the earth by mimicking that wisdom. Become a part of the sustainable future and unleash your own wild growth at our learning workshops.



Grow Wild evolved out of a partnership between Briana and the owner of a large labyrinth garden and geodesic dome greenhouse in Nelson, BC. We invite you to check-out their first summer line-up of eco workshops at the retreat-like setting of Casa Samasati.

Casa Samasati Labyrinth Garden in Nelson, BC

The Labyrinth Garden of Casa Samasati was built in 2007. Ringed in a delicious hedge of red raspberry, the large circular maze is designed for walking meditation. Its passage ways are placed so one can walk gradually - without thinking - towards the center.

Workshop Leader Briana Lyon 

Briana was originally educated as an art and cultural expert and worked her way through administrative and educative fields to become a Visual Analyst with an art consulting firm. She liked the work enough but felt it was perpetually missing something. Mostly that something was that she wasn’t doing anything to address the most pervasive and daunting issues of out time.

When Briana first saw Rob Avis speak at an intro to Permaculture talk lightbulbs of all shapes and sizes started going off in her head. Someone was finally talking about not just the most daunting problems but the actual answers to them! And somehow they were linked directly to design.

Briana soaked up the systems theory and all the awesome in-the-field-learning in her PDC and hit the ground running. After a few years self-educating and apprenticing to professional designers in other fields she launched her own design business.

Today she runs a few eco-startups including a sustainable landscape design firm in Los Angeles, an eco-friendly plant dealership and - most recently - Grow Wild Permaculture [BC] which offers curated learning events and workshops.

Her mission is to popularize ecologically friendly [Permaculture] landscaping by elevating the field’s design aesthetics. She can’t get enough of replenishing deteriorated urban and suburban ecologies with incredible edible, native and/or wildlife supporting plants.