The What & Why

Summer 2024: This website is part of me taking another fork in the road. Past forks took me through a late 1990s period of Theater Scenic Design and Painting. I then took a fork leading to a masters degree in landscape architecture at Harvard. I plowed headlong into eighteen years of experience working for two hi-profile, hi-pressure landscape design firms in San Francisco and Brooklyn NYC.

Then 2020 happened and I took another fork away from the big design firms and I picked up work with the Toronto Client I had been assigned to- so I got to see how things are on the Owners side of the table across from the Designers. I picked up other freelance work until late 2022 when I had to start considering the sustainability of remaining in Brooklyn. Considering my elderly father who needed help it made sense for me to return to our “homestead” here in Biscuit Hollow, Broad Run, VA.

So far it has been good for my Mind, Body, Heart, and Soul to leave the City behind and make a new life for myself. I want to do work the way I want to going forward- with people that can engage on a personal level and that share a common love of the landscape and our place we make within it. I offer Design through Build services for your landscape.