Garden Starter

Ready to start growing your own food, but just need a little help, consultation, design, or a gentle boot in the butt to actually do it? I can bring decades of experience as a landscaper and gardener, as well as an artist’s eye and a passion for sustainable planting and growing practices, to make your garden a reality. I encourage the use of native, local varieties.

My goal in this enterprise is to empower people to engage with the plant world, experience the cycles of nature, and feed themselves with healthy, homegrown food. I will get you started, and help keep it rolling, but you will be the gardener.

Contact me for more information: mcowell13@gmail.com

I recommend seeds from Native Seeds / SEARCH and Westwind Seeds

North of a southern wall, we built a raised bed to maximize winter sunlight

I designed this garden space to deal with excessive shade trees and a southern wall.

Budding gardener and her more heat-sensitive veggies enjoy the afternoon shade of some native sunflowers.

A beautiful local melon, Tohono O'odham Ke:li Ba:so, grown from Native Seeds