Projects
RECENT PROJECTS
Educational Garden at the Bedford Area Family YMCA
Project Details
Year: 2017
Size: 2/3rd acres
Climate: Zone 7
Our Role: Design, Build, Consulting, Education
Description
Full-blown teaching garden that we helped design and build alongside the Y’s CEO Mary Jo Boone. The garden was a long-time dream of hers and we happened to be in the right place at the right time to help make it happen. This project is part of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant and allows us to teach close to 100 children per week in an after school program.
Features
- Raised bed herb and vegetable gardens
- Row crop main garden
- Perennial fruit and nut hedgerows
- Water harvesting cistern
- Water harvesting swales
- Check dams
- Kiwi and grape tunnels
- Edible forest garden
- Over 70 species of useful plants
The Old Amherst Mill: Camp Trapezium
Project Details
Size: 7 acres
Climate: Zone 7
Our Role: Design, Build, Consulting
Description
Centuries old flour and grist mill turned farmhouse brewery, farm-to-table restaurant, and venue. The design details the layout of various production systems to produce vegetables, fruits, herbs, and mushrooms for use in the restaurant kitchen as well as brewery, alongside a myriad of ecological restoration systems.
Features
- No-dig/no-till Vegetable Production
- Tree Crops
- Small Fruit and Berries
- Uncommon Fruits
- Riparian Buffer
- Hedgrows
- 4-seasons Food Production
- Perennial Vegetables and Culinary Herbs
PAST PROJECTS
Rural Edible Forest Garden
Project Details
Done under Roots to Fruits, LLC
Year: 2011
Size: 1/10th acre
Climate: Zone 6
Our Role: Design, Build, Consulting
Description
A front yard edible forest garden designed for maximum yield-to-labor ratio to produce a wide range of fruits, berries, nuts, herbs, perennial vegetables, and beauty.
Features
- Nut Crops
- Small Fruit and Berries
- Uncommon Fruits
- Perennial Vegetables and Culinary Herbs
Edible Landscape
Project Details
Done under Roots to Fruits, LLC
Year: 2012
Climate: Zone 6
Our Role: Design, Build
Description
A public edible landscape installation in Clarkston, MI, designed to be lower maintenance, ornamental all year, and produce delicious berries.
Features
- Small Fruit and Berries
- Uncommon Fruits