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Gardens that earn their keep

A few of the gardens I've designed, built, and tended across the Upstate. Every one is planted to be cooked from, not just looked at.

Selected work

Topsoil Culinary Garden beds full of thriving plants

Topsoil Culinary Garden

29 beds and 814 square feet growing steps from the kitchen that cooks it, at the Michelin-recognized Travelers Rest restaurant.

Angular raised beds and seating area inside a white picket fence

Estate Garden Project

A full kitchen garden built into an existing estate property, angular cedar beds set within the property's own white-fenced grounds.

From the field

Other gardens from around the Upstate, at every stage from a wheelbarrow of soil to a bed in full swing. Different properties, different problems. Client names stay off this page.

Three cedar beds against a brick lattice wall, golden hour, transplants going in — Courtyard beds, midsummer

Courtyard install, cedar beds against a black clapboard building — Commercial courtyard

Wheelbarrow of soil and a shovel, a bed part-filled — Soil going in

Retaining-wall bed of zinnias and peppers against stacked stone — Stacked-stone retaining bed

Cedar raised beds under construction, transplants going in, picnic table behind — Build in progress

The same courtyard beds in early spring, dormant trees behind — The same courtyard, early spring

Poolside residential install, cedar beds behind a black iron fence — Poolside residential

Cedar planter box under construction against a house foundation — Planter box, cut to the foundation

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