My gardening and design "qualifications"

You may have realised that I have no degrees in garden/landscape or permaculture design. This post is to let you know where my learnings come from.
I was raised on a small mixed farm where we raised almost all our own food. The veggies were raised mostly without chemicals. Both sets of grandparents had Large gardens including some ornamental perennials.
Manitoba has LONG winters, and I read voraciously when housebound. I learn very well from reading and rereading information. Books that I've read as if they were a study textbook include the following:
Food not lawns by H.C. Flores
permaculture:principles and pathways beyond sustainability, by david holmgren
Gaias garden By Toby Hemenway
forest gardening by Robert hart
the permaculture way by graham bell
permaculture/a designers manual by Bill Mollison
permaculture/ a practical guide for a sustainable future
The natural way of farming by masanobu Fukuoka
The one straw revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Ornamental grasses, the amber wave, by Charlotte Ottesen.. and anything esle about ornamental grass gardening
The english cottage garden, by Jane Taylor and Andrew Lawson
The self sustaining garden, The guide to matrix planting; by Peter Thompson
The Natural Habitat Garden, by Ken Druse with Margaret roach
Anything on canadian Native Plant gardening
Anything on Canadian Shade gardening
Everything from harrowsmith on canadian gardening
Organic gardening magazines, Harrowsmith magazines, and Mother Earth News from 1975 till 1990
Square foot gardening by Mel Bartholemew
Perelandra Garden workbook by Michelle small wright
And many more books and magazines too countless to mention.
Nature is my best teacher. You learn to garden by killing things, and I've contributed to a lot of compost. Bio-mimicry is a great part of my personal garden practice. So is the holism of my spirituality. Life on earth is a closed system, so we need to make our outputs become our inputs.
My garden and design styles are informed by all the above and much more. Please check out earlier posts on here for pictures and information about how I've grown my gardens in winnipeg.
I have designed and maintained ornamental gardens for others for the last 15 years. I specialise in Herb gardens, holistic gardens, edible ornamental gardens, self maintaing[sic] gardens, all season gardening, gardening to suit the site and soil, and am learning how to comfortably and ethically utilise domestic animals as part of a holistic homestead.
So, yes I am a permaculturalist, but with my own slant. I include spirit in my garden design.
I utilise natures pathways throughout the design, letting nature do as much of the labour as possible. I design for minimal ongoing labour, other than thinning/dividing or harvesting. My gardens are planned to evolve and change as things grow or die from old age or crowding.
I think of Gardening as art played through time and space.