Abundant Edible & Ecological Landscapes

  • Landscape Stewardship

    We create and steward landscapes that increase biodiversity, habitat, and water retention. We do everything from seeding to planting, mulching, irrigating, pruning, thinning, coppicing, burning, building, shoveling. Whatever best suits the land and helps it move in a positive direction towards feeding more humans and fellow species, we are here to help.

  • Water Retention Earthworks

    Water is the foundation of every landscape. To make best use of all water that lands on a site, we build terraces, swales, check dams, infiltration basins, rain gardens, hugelkultur beds, sunken beds, rolling dips, and ponds. These direct and collect both water and organic matter to provide more consistent soil hydration and fertility. This aids in drought and wildfire resilience, increases plant vitality, and works with natureto create more abundance.

  • Consulting

    If you’re looking for personalized stewardship assistance, we offer on-site and remote consulting to help with observing, analyzing, and caring for your landscape. Our goal is to help you work with the natural elements in your site to have the greatest impact with the least amount of inputs. We can work with you to understand the ecology of your site and formulate approachable plans for actualizing your landscape vision.

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Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort Food Forest Leavenworth, WA - 2024

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Raised beds with a view! Just finished building these cedar board beds for a client in Leavenworth. Filled the bottom with old punky firewood, the rest with garden soil, and topped with some poopy straw gathered from a local animal sanctuary. The woo
This week’s project: A “rain/snow garden”, channeling roof runoff to sunken water retention basins planted with various native, climate-adapted, and edible plants, seeded with 19 varieties of native wildflowers, and then covered wit
Last week’s project: planting 30 native plants, fir mulch, cedar woodchip pathways, a log-edged lounging plateau, and some river rock edging to a cabin up in Plain. In October I’ll go back to sow native bunch grass seeds around the rest o
Yesterday’s project: building a beaver dam analog in the Chumstick Creek. We laid down layers of logs, then grasses, then mud, then leafy branches, then mud, then leafy branches, then mud. When we came to the creek yesterday to start, there wa
Today’s project: pulling weeds. Generally I don’t like weeding, but, it’s something people want to pay for, and I can make use of the removed plants. Here’s my hypercondensed explanation of weeds: weeds are plants that you d
This week’s project: a lil living privacy hedge for a client’s front yard to create a buffer between them and their neighbors. Nothing too fancy here, just 19 native plants from Derby Canyon Natives, some woodchip mulch, some drip irrigat
Y’all this is what’s possible with lazy gardening! The amount of abundance that comes from perennial plants (woody plants that return every year to produce more and more food) is unreal. People been living off perennial foods (predominant
Today’s Harvest: Garlic. The simplest and easiest crop to grow, all ya gotta do is put individual cloves in the ground about 1-2” deep in the late fall, and wait to dig them up in the late spring/early summer. No watering necessary in the
This summer’s project: combatting the prevailing winds and vehicle noise entering from the east by making a “crater garden” and hugelkultur mound. Winds severely dry out the landscape and make it hard for plants to grow. Noise from
This week’s project: Small steps toward reducing water needs and creating wildlife habitat. Planted 13 new species of native plants, repaired leaking irrigation with drip emitters, reduced watering duration and frequency for their existing lawn