Our Board of Directors
Kip Coval
My name is Kip Coval, and I’m married with four children and one grandchild. I attended my first PDC in 2011 and a second in 2016. I completed CSU Extension’s Master Gardener Course and their Building Farmers Course, and more recently, I finished the Holistic Land Management Course from the Savory Institute. Over the past ten years, I’ve volunteered with several local food-producing non-profits.
For the past eight years, I’ve been developing my 1/4-acre suburban permaculture homestead, which now boasts an abundance of perennial fruit and vegetable plants, alongside a variety of annual vegetables. We also raise a small backyard flock of chickens and keep honeybees. I’m honored to serve on the executive board of Pikes Peak Permaculture and am excited to contribute to educating our community as we work toward building a more regenerative city.
Robyn Madsen
Robyn began her permaculture journey in 2015 with Pikes Peak Permaculture and has continued to integrate the permaculture principles and ethics into everyday life. She is a compost queen and worm farmer; she helps folks understand the importance of rainwater harvesting, and she loves to talk about “weeds,” inspiring folks to look at these valuable plants in a new light. She is a dandelion advocate and nature lover, and she is also a dog mama and plant mama. She loves to dabble in the kitchen, creating herbal concoctions and remedies.
She also supports her community as a death doula and interfaith minister, providing services for friends and family as their loved ones are crossing over, as well as providing comfort and care for those nearing death. She is a stargazer and earth steward, and she finds immense pleasure in spending quality time with her community making magic to further the health and healing of the planet. She loves the earth and values this life, putting considerable importance on spreading love and joy. It is her deepest desire to live a magical life connected to the natural world and to help others do the same.
Ally Richardson
Ally has been an environmental advocate since a young age, possessing a profound connection to the natural world. With a B.S. in Environmental Science focusing on wildlife conservation and an M.S. in Biology concentrating on Ecology, the studies have guided her to permaculture design, certified by Pikes Peak Permaculture in 2022. Since obtaining her permaculture teacher certification in 2023, Ally has been imparting permaculture knowledge in the community wherever she can as a path forward for educating future generations.
Following the development of an elementary permaculture curriculum, she oversees a permaculture pilot program at an urban elementary school. Ally also co-hosts the Peak Environment Podcast, produced by Studio 809 in downtown Colorado Springs, about all things permaculture and environmental stewardship.
Brian Scott Fritz
Brian has strong and varied educational background with degrees in architecture, computer science, business, personal and business coaching. He is a life-long learner with usually four to eight books open at any one moment. He has worked in a variety of executive positions in a number of industries from health foods, sporting goods, electronics manufacturing, and telecommunications. All small to medium size (mostly startup) companies.
Brian was certified as a Permaculture Designer (2009) as well as a Permaculture Teacher (2010); participated in Advanced Permaculture Design Course (2011). From 2009 to 2014 he acted as Co-Director for Transition Town Manitou Springs, a sister organization to PPP supporting the relocalization of the Colorado Pikes Peak region. Brian stays actively involved in the permaculture scene in Southern Colorado.
Scott Harvey
Scott Harvey is Colorado licensed Civil Engineer but has practiced mostly Architectural Engineering for the past 30+ years, starting his own firm last century after many requests from people wanting to employ traditional and new alternative building methods and materials. He often plays the role of critic, cheerleader and contrarian on issues, trying to remain neutral while advancing a cause and keeping folks from making mistakes that can take a cause backwards.
A life long Boy Scout and the accompanying environmental responsibilities, the obvious things are those that are usually hyped but the fundamentals is where the real problem and solutions are found. For example; climate change has a fundamental issue of changing the chemical composition of our air and water. Those include burning trash and agricultural chemicals that end up in our food and water resources. As Jacques Cousteau once said ‘the two essential fluids of life, air and water, have become global garbage cans’. Permaculture works to turn that tide with proper design, implementation and use.