Cathe' Fish is an experienced drylands Permaculture Design Consultant since 1988. She has designed 40 acre farms to small suburban plots.

Cathe' is also a very experienced international speaker. She has taught hundreds of classes and workshops. She has been an inspiring pioneer in permaculture education in the US. She was the founder and original editor of the Drylands Permaculture newsletter which later became the Permaculture Drylands Journal.

Cathe' has studied with Australian ecologist, eco designer, and all around character Bill Mollison, who created permaculture as an interdisciplinary approach to land use and community development. In May 2008, she was also able to visit Tagari, Bill Mollison's long term farm in Tyalgum, NSW, Australia (abandoned since 2001) with its amazing still functioning earthworks: 43 bodies of constructed dams, ponds, andwater harvesting swales, as well as many lush food forests. In May 2008, she also spent two weeks at Geoff and Nadia Lawton's Diversity Farm working with Geoff's amazing swales, dams and ponds, planting food forests and bamboo cuttings and other farm activities.

Cathe' has also studied with Tom Ward, David Bainbridge, Barbara Kerr, Sally Fallon, Elaine Ingham, Rosalind Creasy, Robert Kouric, and Joel Salatin

Besides being a Permaculture Designer and Teacher since 1987, Cathe' has been a Master Gardener since 1988. She has created and implemented permaculture designs on properties from 40 acres to 1/4 acre.

Since 1980, she has been a member of the Arizona Solar Action Team traveling around the state of Arizona conducting Passive Solar Greenhouse Workshops. She has taught her Passive Solar Greenhouse slideshow at AZ state Master Gardener Conferences, as well as many Master Gardener classes, and Permaculture classes. Cathe' is working on a Passive Solar Greenhouse book with her Solar Action Teammates, Joe Costion and Em Vardaman.

Cathe' has been involved in the rebirth of strawbale building since 1987, and has taught passive solar building design at straw bale workshops for many years.

Cathe's love is trees, particularly rare fruit trees, and she has planted 1000s of trees. She was the previous director of Cochise County Global ReLeaf. She has helped several cities create tree protection ordinances, and was instrumental in starting Chico CA's Tree Action.

She is a member of the California Native Plant Society, NAFEX North American Fruit Explorers, California Rare Fruit Growers and Bioneers.

Cathe' is known for well organized, practical, high energy classes. She is now organizing another trip to Mexico with other permaculturists to teach Permaculture.

Cathe' lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1970's where she started a natural foods cafe called the Country Kitchen (now Harry's Roadhouse). She built a little greenhouse outside the cafe, where she grew the cafe's tomatoes and greens. To this day, she refuses to eat corporate tastless tomatoes. She also lived for 25 years in the high desert town of Bisbee, Arizona. She says, "Wherever you live, make water catchments and plant fruit trees."

Cathe' now lives in a cohousing village in Northern California where she gets her electricity from the sun, drinks water from her solar water distiller, and cooks her garden vegies in her many different solar cookers and solar ovens.