We all want to live in places that are healthy and beautiful — to sustain our bodies, minds, and spirits. What is healthy is beautiful — children playing, clean water and rich soil, streams, forests and meadows, vegetable gardens and orchards, birds singing, bees and butterflies at their work.

As development has spread and human population grown, much of our built landscape has become unhealthy — huge areas of lawn and paving, for instance, are creating urban heat islands and stormwater runoff problems. Industrialized farms devoted to a single species — plant or animal — create conditions for disease, which are passed on to us in our soil, water, and food.

As we change our understanding of what is unhealthy, we change our ideas of beauty to reflect healthier and more functional systems in the built environment.

This firm is devoted to reweaving healthier natural systems — of plants, wildlife, water and soil — back into residential, public, corporate, and agricultural systems in a beautiful and delightful way.

All of us with the firm are trained in landscape architecture and the ecology of the southeastern United States: stewardship of natural resources, art and design, history of built environments, the shaping of public spaces for human enjoyment and safety, naturalistic and conventional grading and drainage design, hardscape materials and construction techniques, and the use of plants for shaping space and restoring the health of ecosystems.