I talk with plants. I work with Nature, with garden energetics, with both the body and the soul of your garden. I have a Bachelor’s degree in ecological agriculture. I am highly trained in regenerative soil health. With me as your gardener or designer, you get the best of both worlds, the rational and the intuitive.

Garden Maintenance in Nevada City and Grass Valley, CA

I offer weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly services doing all aspects of garden maintenance including weeding, pruning, mulching, and compost creation. Veggie gardens, edible landscapes, orchards, food forests, or pure ornamentals – I enjoy them all and can help you co-create yours in ecological and regenerative ways. Lawns are fine, but let’s manage them in ways that benefit ecological health by letting them be biodiverse with the addition of plants such as yarrow, violets, ajuga, and yes, even some dandelions.

I’m also happy to act as your garden coach, working alongside you to help you learn how to communicate with the land you inhabit while tending to it.

Interested? Call or text me at 530-292-0279.

Soil and Water Consulting

Soil is the foundation for a healthy life, and living soils are the key to a robust and regenerative environment. When you learn to work from a wholistic perspective, one that places the health of the soil as a top priority, you work for the health and vitality of all life.

Soil also has a profound impact on water. Healthy soil becomes a sponge, infiltrating the rain that falls and storing that water for later use. Adding just 1% organic matter into your soil can increase the ground’s water holding capacity by 16,000 gallons. We can each participate in assisting our landscapes to work effectively with the water cycle, healing the causes of drought and desertification while creating lush landscapes that provide a wealth of food and medicine.

If you would like to regenerate your soil and learn how to work effectively with water, I can help! Contact me to learn more and to schedule an initial phone consultation.

Full Designs:

Regenerative Healing Gardens

Would you like a beautifully designed landscape that feeds you and your family, both body and soul?

Healing Gardens are beautiful and bountiful gardens whose rich, living soils grow the nourishing foods, herbs, and flowers that support human health and vitality. They also sequester carbon, infiltrate and store water, and create habitat for pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

This is medicine for all!

Contact me to learn more and to schedule an initial consultation.

The Wisdom Oasis

This is gardening at the leading edge, creating space to connect your heart to the heart of nature. Wild Nature is a place of healing because wild places resonate in coherence; They are Whole

A Wisdom Oasis is a place of integration. It is a space for turning daily stress and information overload into everyday wisdom through a garden that connects into nature’s information processing “software”, leading you simply and calmly into your own Wholeness.

Contact me to learn more.