Principal Designer & Owner, Gentle Gardener Green Design, Zone 6b, Rappahannock River Basin, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Piedmont, Central Virginia, North America.

Certified Permaculture Designer, Landscape Designer & Horticulturalist. LEED Green Associate. Licensed Nursery Stock Dealer.

The mission of Gentle Gardener Green Design is to support your personal stewardship of the Earth in your own Garden. Gentle Gardener Green Design creates Landscapes and Gardens As Pleasing to Nature as to the Eye.

We consult in sustainable land care for our design clients, and create 'green' weddings & events using locally and sustainably harvested flowers & produce.

Present permaculture activities include roof rainwater catchment projects for clients in urban environments, sustainable alternatives to turfgrass lawn, ecosystem services trading in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and our own farm's integration of riparian buffer plantings for water quality , forestry, hay and rotationally grazed cattle.