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6" 7" Nic Connor shown here in his high school football uniform. Incidentally he was All League 

and all Western Washington State A/B center in 2000. He is now enrolled  At Western 

Washington University where he is in his junior year planning to become a Marketing Tycoon

of the 21st century. He spent his summer on Our Farm and Wildlife Preserve putting in 

countless hours on the excavator clearing brush before fruit harvest, building habitat for wildlife

and mowing fields before the 2002 plant and tree flagging project. We hope to entice him back 

again in 2003. 2003 is also a big salmon run year. He is definitely a top notch catcher.

Meg Connor has been doing what ever is the most important thing to do for the entire 

28 years we have been on Orcas Island. I have a strong feeling that what ever gets 

done that is productive is because of her work or inspiration. I know that anything I do
that is meaningful I do because I think she will be better off because of it. Meg manages

our two retail stores; Rhapsody of Orcas Island  and Spirit of the Northwest, our two 

vacation rentals; The Gnome House and Maggie's Manor, all of the financial arrangements

of all of our businesses, all of the scheduling of everything, all of the domestic responsibilities, 

and has the task of helping me with nearly everything, I do. She's perfect in every way and 

I asked her to be my wife for at least the next hundred billion lifetimes. She agreed. :)

I'm Bob Connor. I have always had a strong desire to bring together all of the important

things in life. I believe in heaven on earth and I'm willing to do my part to make it happen. 

I believe if you like the rural character of the islands then you have to make sure there are
rural people doing rural things. I know you have to do what you love to do. I love my family,

wild fruit and berries, wild fish, wild flowers, natural honey, children laughing, families warm 

and secure, neighbors neighborly, hard work, sunshine, heartfelt sincerity, challenges, 

community projects, preserving food, cold winters, vibrant springs, long hot summers, 

colorful crisp falls, homemade everything, helping young people get started, listening to 

friends, achieving goals, far out physics, northern lights, stars, hoots of owls, cry of the loons, 

fair trading, the feelings from well made memories, innocence, sunrises, sunsets, wind and 

rain, smell of baking, obsessive exercise, esoteric thinking, discovering, fishing, 
every kind of snow, competitive sports, planting, harvesting, vacations as a family, designing, 

building, enlightenment, writing, music, hospitality, cooking, getting up early, passion, mountains, 
rivers, streams, holidays, potlucks, sailing, backpacking, skiing, giving presents, chopping 

wood, heavy equipment, tugboats, digging by hand, all animals, all birds, all pets, learning. 

teaching, singing, well almost everything and certainly more than that.

I live on Orcas Island with my wife and three kids. I have been involved with horticulture for almost 25 years. 
My interests range from fruit trees to perennials, from food forests to fungi; in fact, I haven't met a plant that 
I didn't like. My horticultural interests have taken me to Latin America and to the former Soviet Union, and 
as a result I speak both Spanish and Russian fairly well. I completed a Permaculture Design Course with 
Bill Mollison in 1981 in California, and have taught, thought and lived Permaculture since then. 

Joseph Bullock

Bullock's Permaculture class of 2001