Our Team
Zev Friedman - Creative Director (he/him)
Zev has worked as a leading permaculture designer, researcher, teacher, and writer in Western North Carolina. He grew up in a patch of kudzu in Sylva, NC, and received his B.S. in Human Ecology from the University of North Carolina Asheville. Zev specializes in hands-on, in-depth education in permaculture and earthskills and has been doing residential and community-based professional design and installation throughout Western North Carolina. Almost a decade of study with world-renowned teacher Martín Prechtel helped feed his passion for regrowing our own diverse indigenous lifeways through youth initiation and ritual.
Zev currently serves as Creative Director for Cooperate WNC, which harnesses the power of cooperation at a regional scale to meet human needs and address our most pressing ecological and social challenges. He can also be found teaching many of these same concepts as a faculty member of the School of Integrated Living.
Connect with Zev if you are interested in becoming a donor of Cooperate WNC or if you have ideas for community initiatives or events:
zev@cooperatewnc.org