Working with nature to create landscapes abundant with food, water, medicine, materials, and habitat.

  • Landscape Care

    We plant, seed, mulch, install irrigation (if necessary) and steward landscapes consisting of edible, functional, native, and climate-adapted plants. Our goal is to work with each client’s unique location, lifestyle, means, and goals, to create landscapes that will be abundant with the biology they wish to experience.

  • Water Retention Earthworks

    Water is the most important part of every landscape. To make best use of all water that lands on a site, we build terraces, swales, check dams, infiltration basins, hugelkultur beds, sunken beds, rolling dips, and ponds. These passively collect and direct 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 alongside nature’s forces to 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 effort. 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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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
This week’s project: Hugelkultur mounds! After collecting large amounts of woody material from around the site and off-site, I rented an excavator for a day and lasagna layered woody materials, then dirt, then wood, then dirt. Starting about 2
This week’s project: Terraces built into the hillside, seeded with cover crop, mulched with a neighbor’s goat poop/hay bedding, and planted with fruit and nut trees/shrubs. One terrace is an experiment in just cover crop seed alone, the o
This week’s project: A roundwood grape trellis/hops trellis/garden entrance. Locally harvested logs from a forest thinning project, debarked, charred for rot-resistance, and set in the ground. Hemp twine hangs between the logs, allowing the exi
This week’s project: installing drip irrigation for a client’s raised beds. Previously they had hand-watered all the beds and used a soaker hose to irrigate. Now they have an automatic timer and valves to control water to each bed, as wel
The newest member of the homestead, Scythe. Stray turned semi-domestic. May he enjoy regular store bought cat food in addition to a steady supply of mice. May he limit his hunting of birds and perhaps voles specifically where root vegetables and youn

Testimonials

  • "Sean’s knowledge and resources are excellent. His helpful nature and “can do” attitude makes working with him a pleasure. Don’t hesitate to call him!"

    Betsy M.

  • “Sean is a wealth of information when it comes to regenerative landscaping. He has worked beside many regenerative farmers. My goal is to heal my old orchard land, create more nutrient rich soil, and grow as much food and herbs as possible. Sean was very kind. He walked our property and gave us ideas, a helpful packet of local plants (how to grow and where to buy them), and some freshly foraged serviceberries! He even showed me some of my flowers were actually edible! It’s so important we work with Mother Nature, steward the earth better, and grow more of our own food!”

    Kristen J.

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