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Landscape Portfolio & Publications

Landscape Design & Implementation

Learning Gardens Laboratory, SE Portland

Managed 4-acre urban farm and garden site including 1-acre dedicated to intensive vegetable production. The photo shows a row of summer cover crops (buckwheat and phacelia).

Buckwheat and phacelia flowers

Clackamas Extension Office, Oregon City

This site was formerly an expanse of lawn with regular use of herbicides. We removed sod and installed native plants to improve habitat attracting the swallowtail butterfly on on Cascade penstemon shown in the photo.

Swollowtail butterly on Cascade Penstemon

Mount Madonna School (1999-2007)

While I was working as a science teacher, the school built a new 10-acre campus. I designed and installed the landscape and engaged students in site work to help the new site blend into the forested surroundings.

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Food Innovation Center, NW Portland

Designed and installed pollinator garden beds at an urban, OSU Extension facility in Portland. Plant choices include many natives along with non-native plants such as lavender.

Landscape bed at Food Innovation Center

Home Landscape, SW Portland

Over the years, I've invested in my own property installing patios, awnings, and fences along with many of my favorite plants. The photo shows a robust patch of Pacific bleeding heart, one of my favorite plants for dry shade.

Western bleeding heart flowers in landscape area

Summit Springs Design (1994-1998)

Fresh out of college, I partnered with property owners to design, install, and manage a 1/2-acre vegetable production garden on a steep hillside. We installed terraces and created a sun bowl and made 100s of yards of compost to improve the soil for intensive vegetable crops.

Terraced planting beds

Publications

Solve Pest Problems

I am primary author and publisher for 80+ pages of peer-reviewed content written in plain language with 100s of photos, icons, and illustrations. Some of my favorite pages include:

How to Use Compost in Gardens and Landscapes

Primary author for detailed guide on compost.

Herbicide-Contaminated Compost and Soil Mix: What You Should Know—and What You Can Do About It

An Educators' Guide to Vegetable Gardening

Co-author for a great publication to help educators with the practical vegetable gardening tips.

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