With over 20 years of gardening and homesteading experience, and a natural appetite for learning and experimenting, Phoebe can help with almost anything realted to the garden. From system design to problem-solving a stinky compost, it’s suprising how much can get conquered in a 2 hour coaching session. Specialties include:

Private Coaching and Design

  • Creative, artistic, out of the box solutions and strategies that add magic to the landscape

  • Working with Nature, instead of powering over. Making sure there is a balanced relationship of reciprocity in the garden.

  • Drought tolerant designs that still look lush using a combination of natives and ornamentals for a four season garden.

  • Food forrest design/Introducing more edibles into the landscape

  • Strategies to keep the budget low, for the DIYer

  • Water management including rainwater harvesting, catchment basins, and swales. ***NOT irrigation

  • Listening deeply and understanding client needs

  • Compost systems

  • Vegetable gardening (a Tomato Queen in fact)

  • Natural playscapes and design that is FUN for kids and still beautiful for adults

  • Reducing energy consumption by using shade effectively via plants

Space/time is limited. Two hour minimum for $200, $60/hr after initial two hours. Sacramento only (without additional charges for travel time).