Transforming Florida Yards

Learn permaculture in a living food forest alongside your children! 🌿🌈🤓🙏🏼🌸

Pike Wellness, LLC is now an approved provider on the Step Up for Students EMA Portal for:

🌱 Gardening/Horticultural Lessons or Training Programs
✅ Catalog Item ID: 20117807

Families can now use eligible Step Up scholarship funds toward our educational programs, including our upcoming:

🌳 10-Day Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course
📍 Jupiter Farms, Florida
📅 August 17–26, 2026

This immersive course combines environmental science, ecology, gardening, agriculture, and regenerative design in a real-world food forest setting. Students and parents will explore:

🌿 Food forests and edible landscapes
🌿 Soil health and composting
🌿 Plant propagation and seed starting
🌿 Water conservation and earthworks
🌿 Sustainable agriculture
🌿 Ecology and biodiversity
🌿 Hands-on design and implementation

To locate the program in EMA, search:
🔍 Pike Wellness
🔍 Amanda Pike
🔍 Gardening/Horticultural Lessons or Training Programs

We are excited to help families connect with nature, grow food, build practical life skills, and learn how regenerative systems can create healthier communities and landscapes. 🌈🦋🌻

Join us this summer for a 10-Day Permaculture Design Course (PDC)

Homeschooling mamas!!! It’s approved for reimbursement through Step Up For Students!!

📍 Pike Food Forest, Jupiter Farms, FL
📅 August 17–26, 2026

🎟️ Reserve your spot here:
https://jupiterfarmspermaculture.eventbrite.com/

(20% off with discount code PDCMAMAS by 6/1/26)

🌺 Have you been feeling the call to dive deeper into regenerative living? 🌺 🌿 10-Day Permaculture Design Course (PDC) 📍 Pike Food Forest, Jupiter Farms, FL 📅 August 17–26, 2026 🌴 Join us for a transformative 10-day immersive Permaculture Design Course where you’ll gain the knowledge, confidence, and hands-on experience to design regenerative landscapes and grow abundant food. ✨ Earn your 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate upon completion. This course blends ecological science, practical skills, and real-world application in a beautiful, living permaculture site. 🌱 What You’ll Experience & Learn: •Foundations of permaculture design & ethics •Soil health, microbiology, and regeneration techniques •Food forest design & edible ecosystem planning •Water systems and climate-resilient design •Plant propagation & seed starting techniques •Hands-on garden and farm design experience •Visits to local permaculture demonstration sites •Social permaculture & working with natural patterns •A final capstone design project 🌿 Your Teachers Amanda Pike, PhD – Pike Food Forest Brielle Águila – Remembering Source Leslie Bosson – Palm Beach Kitchen Gardens 🌻 This course is perfect for gardeners, homesteaders, designers, land stewards, and anyone ready to deepen their connection to land, food, and regenerative living. 🎟️ Reserve your spot here: https://jupiterfarmspermaculture.eventbrite.com/ (20% off with discount code PDCMAMAS by 6/1/26) / scholarships and payment plans available if needed as well! 🌿 Come learn to design with nature, grow your own food, and be part of a regenerative future! #permaculture #permaculturedesign #permaculturedesigncourse #floridapermaculture #growfood

One of my favorite “children’s garden” trees? 🌸 Magnolia.

Magnolias are such a sensory experience for children:
✨ giant fragrant flowers
✨ glossy climbing leaves
✨ natural shade for imaginative play
✨ pollinator habitat
✨ and even edible petals!

The flower petals of some magnolia species can actually be pickled or used fresh in small amounts for a ginger-like flavor. The scent alone makes them magical for nature-based childhood memories.

I also love that magnolias encourage children to slow down. Kids instinctively stop to smell them, touch the petals, watch the beetles and bees, and sit beneath the canopy. In a fast-paced world, that matters.

Some plants feed wonder, curiosity, pollinators, shade, beauty, and emotional connection to the land and magnolia does all of that beautifully. 🌿