I am in the midst of teaching the Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Stelle, Illinois in conjunction with Midwest Permaculture. I am convinced that we are in the middle of a revolution that suffuses slowly into the consciousness of the culture. We are taking to the backyard (and the front) with our shovels and rakes and transforming them into food, medicine, utility gardens. We are slowing down, observing closely, taking time to get to know our environment. We are harvesting from our gardens and preparing healthy meals for the family. We are breathing again and usurping the control of our lives, wresting it away from the industrial farm. As Geoff Lawton reminds us, everything can find healing in a garden. Our students are so inspired. Yesterday we had several site visits all over Chicago. Gardens on roofs, in urban backyards, on office buildings, at schools. People breaking down the walls of the status quo, eating raspberries through the fences, harvesting peppers next to bee hives on a roof, pulling dandelion leaves from a front lawn in the burbs, admiring a stand of big bluestem on once forgotten reestablished prairie.