Andre Baptiste
At the Permaculture Life food forest in Florida, Andre the Farmer (Andre Baptiste) is a home food-forester, an avid gardener and a popular social media personality. Andre guides and inspires his multitude of followers helping them create their own sustainable lives through food forest tips and techniques, healthy cooking and a wealth of environment-friendly gardening advice. He encourages gardeners to “Dig Deeper” into how our individual gardening practices can impact and influence the greater world.
Under his Permaculture Life brand, Andre’s company offers a wide range of consumable items that support his work and the environment, including clothing made from hemp , bamboo and recycled materials, as well as plants, bags, t-shirts and other garden related products that promote a sustainable lifestyle.Perhaps Andre’s most valuable offering is his vast experience and love for growing all kinds of plants, trees and crops. He experiments and teaches with unusual and sometimes exotic fruits and vegetables and demonstrates ways to use existing food remnants to grow more of what we’re eating, as well as various planting and propagation methods.An orthodontist by trade, Andre Baptiste is a graduate of Howard University, in Washington DC. He is an avid fisherman and sports enthusiast as well as the head of Permaculture Life.