Do you have a permaculture farm already? Dreaming one up? Looking to incorporate mushrooms in your homestead visions? Hear Kris's insights on running a permaculture farm, taking interns and WOOFers, teaching kids, growing mushrooms and crops in a drought, and the ups and downs of being an off the grid farmer. Kris Holstrom is the owner of Tomten Farm, a high-altitude off the grid, solar powered demonstration and education farm at 9000’ above Sawpit, Colorado where she grows mushrooms. She's been teaching lowtek mushroom cultivation for around a decade and three decades educating the public and youth about sustainability issues including renewable energy, food security, waste reduction and “out of the box” systems thinking to contribute to regional solutions to current challenges.