Howdy,
Hurrah! Hello, Eugene Permaculture Guilders 
I’m happy to see your website.
We are new in town, although we have done a lot of settling in the last couple of weeks We live in the little house by the Alton Baker Community Garden. My goal is to transform the lawn here into a showcase of native plants communities/ microhabitats, including swales and other greywater treatment over time.
Right now, there are a few big leaf maples I’ll be using as my base. If you have extra native starts - or non-invasive edibles like fruit trees, blueberries, etc - please let me know and I’ll come pick them up. I’d like to set up an edibles guild near the edge of this space as a model/ comparison: we get a lot of foot and bike traffic, and I’d like to help demonstrate what a food-bearing guild looks like.
I am particularly interested in shrubby starts, because it is so hot and dry! However, I can keep herbaceous plants alive until they are properly sheltered by their bigger buddies.
Next summer, I hope to be organized and settled enough to put together a work party to build a cob seating area with a living roof. If you know folks who might be interested in such a project, please let me know or send them my email: walkin_lamb@yahoo.com
Erin