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Projects

A growing record of productive home gardens in North Carolina, Michigan, Colorado, and Pennsylvania.

North Carolina · Front yard

Front-Yard Mini Farm

An ordinary residential lawn reshaped into planting rows for food, flowers, herbs, perennials, and habitat.

The project was developed gradually: clearing the site, shaping rows, planting, mulching, reusing bamboo for vertical support, and learning from the garden as it filled in.

Established front-yard mini farm with the house visible behind the planting rows
Michigan · Home gardens

Productive Home Gardens

Several seasons of seeding, mixed raised beds, in-ground growing, harvest, and garden-to-table use.

These gardens combined vegetables, herbs, fruit, and flowers rather than separating productivity from beauty or habitat.

Michigan raised bed planted with vegetables, herbs, and flowers
Durango, Colorado · Residential garden

Mountain Home Garden Bed

A newly planted, curved garden bed set around an established evergreen beside a mountain home.

The red-mulch bed brings together young perennials, flowering plants, stone edging, and the existing tree while working with the shape of the site.

Katy seated beside a newly planted red-mulch garden bed around an evergreen in Durango, Colorado
New planting around an established evergreen in Durango.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Residential garden

Hillside Front-Yard Planting

A steep urban front yard organized into mulched planting areas within the existing retaining walls.

Katy seated on a retaining wall among newly planted black-mulch garden beds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
New perennial planting across the terraced front yard.
Wide view of terraced front-yard garden beds with black mulch and young plantings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The planted hillside in context with the neighboring homes.
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