Gardening for resilience and reciprocity

Services

Stewardship Stewardship
Stewardship

Bringing knowledge of plants, animal habitats, and ecosystem relationships to the stewardship of gardens to provide beauty and ecological benefits throughout the seasons. Services include seasonal maintenance, vacation or other short-term care, invasive removal, safe pest management, and property cleanup.

Design and Install Design and Install
Design and Install

Designing and installing ecologically oriented gardens with an equal focus on restoration and beauty. Specialties include lawn to native restoration, urban pocket meadows and container gardens, stormwater management, upcycling, and establishing stable plant communities suited to the land and climate requiring minimal maintenance over time.

Consultation Consultation
Consultation

Discuss possibilities for ecological design/install projects in your home or at your business, troubleshoot a problem in your garden, or get a step-by-step DIY guide to plant and maintain your own native garden. Consultations may be on-site or virtual.

Portfolio

  • Design and install of container garden and irrigation system in Park Slope

  • Design and install of lawn to native garden in Ditmas Park

  • Long-term stewardship and garden design edits in Windsor Terrace

  • Design and install of pocket meadow with gravel substrate to minimize maintenance on apartment block in Ditmas Park

  • Native perennial foundation planting for apartment building Ditmas Park

  • Garden design edit in Windsor Terrace

  • Native ground cover in ecological garden design edit in Windsor Terrace

  • Front yard sheet mulched with upcycled materials to remove lawn for future native garden design/install in Ditmas Park

  • Lawn removal with upcycled materials for future native garden in Ditmas Park

  • Design and install of lawn to native garden in Ditmas Park

  • Design/install of summer window box in Park Slope

  • Edit of window box design for fall/winter in Park Slope

  • Close-up on container garden on apartment block in Ditmas Park

  • Seasonal stewardship and garden design edits in Park Slope

  • Garden design edit in Park Slope

  • Design and install of pocket meadow with gravel substrate to minimize maintenance on brownstone block in Park Slope

  • Long-term stewardship and garden design edits in Windsor Terrace

  • Stewardship and garden design edit in Flatbush

  • Seasonal stewardship in Flatbush

  • Seasonal stewardship in Flatbush

  • Spring cleaning in Flatbush

  • Rose care in Flatbush

  • Hugulkultur in progress for a community garden built for the Bedford Library in Bed-Stuy

  • Frida selecting seeds for the Bedford Library Community Garden

  • Early growth in the Bedford Library Community Garden

  • Blueberry foliage in autumn at the Bedford Library Community Garden