It is fair to say that I am most grounded in the great outdoors. As a teenager I enjoyed tending the garden at our suburban home in Portland, Oregon. This need to always have my hands and feet in the earth inspired me to own and operate a successful small landscaping company, CREATE-A-SCAPE, from 1983 – 1987. During this time I received a degree of Applied Science in Landscape Technology and Design from Portland Community College in 1984 and Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1987.

After a short stint in a Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering firm in Portland, Oregon, marriage and an adventuring spirit called to me. We spent the next two years as a Peace Corp Volunteer on the Island of Grenada in the West Indies. I had the good fortune to work in the newly developed National Park’s Unit, within the Ministry of Agriculture.

Upon returning to the United States in 1991, we selectively re-assimilated with a season as interns at Natural Harvest Farm, an organic CSA farm in Canby, Oregon, Volunteered with Oregon Tilth and started a family.

In 1993 I started FERTILE GROUND, providing landscape design and contracting services to homeowners and small businesses. In 2002 I started re-envisioning FERTILE GROUND in order to offer a deeper connection with people and place. My life’s journey has lead me to the labyrinth, with its varied form and function, as an inclusive expression of the uniquely creative path to discovering one’s center.

In 2005 I became licensed as a Landscape Architect. I offer landscape architectural services specializing in labyrinth design and construction as a vehicle for transformation…..designing gardens which invite people to rediscover their sacred ground.

Live. Celebrate. Balance. Honor. Breathe. Reflect. Walk on……………..