FOUNDING PRINCIPAL

Christian Douglas is a multi-award-winning landscape designer, creating beautiful and productive outdoor spaces for over 25 years. Combining his formal training in classical design and his passion for regenerative agriculture, he has created innovative landscapes in his native England, the Middle East and the United States, with food at the heart. Before settling in the US, Christian owned a design studio in the UK for many years, followed by extensive global travel learning strategies for farming and survival in desert environments while working and teaching for both for-profit and non-profit farms and education centers. Constantly inspired by the common connection traditional cultures have to their environment and growing food, Christian believes modern landscape design has a significant role and responsibility to play in restoring our relationship to the natural world - starting with food. Christian has been featured in Architectural Digest, WSJ, California Home & Design and Sunset Magazine, and is currently writing a book on food-forward design philosophy due for release in 2024.

PRINCIPAL + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

Christian is a licensed Landscape Architect with a focus on agrihood design and development. His shared desire to integrate food and regenerative strategies into every project is matched by his ability to create highly detailed masterplans. From landscape analysis and design to community programming, his leadership and skills have supported large teams developing innovative lifestyle communities and fully-integrated sustainable developments. His experience includes working with large-scale estate owners, developers and operators with a focus on land and farm-based hospitality, master-planned communities, multi-family and mixed-use developments. He collaborates with a wide variety of disciplines to find solutions to today’s issues - economic, social and environmental - creating the foundation for design that is at its core; resilient, and truly authentic.

LEAD FARM DESIGNER

Christiana is our plant and food expert who works closely with clients to take the finished landscape into a carefully curated foodscape tailored to their culinary desires. Growing up with organic farming pioneers, Full Belly Farm and Riverdog Farm, Christiana’s passion for farming and food has since lead her from the islands of Scotland to the jungles of Nicaragua in the pursuit of gaining experience with diverse small-scale agriculture methods. Christiana focused her degree at UCSC on agricultural policy and food justice, specifically relating to her work with the non-profit Homeless Garden Project as their Community Supported Agriculture Manager. As the former Assistant Farm Manager for Saison, a 3-Michelin-Star restaurant in San Francisco, she cultivated 3 acres of specialty crops in Marin County. As lead farm designer, Christiana is responsible for implementing food into our plant designs, carefully considering the practicality, interrelationships and longevity of each element. She is also responsible for our online farm classes and educational programs, continuing a strong belief in connecting people with their food sources.

LANDSCAPE + ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER

Cole is a proud SF Native and ‘far’ outside-the-box creative thinker, with a background in both architecture, landscape design and construction. He brings invaluable expertise and vision to all of our projects on both horizontal and vertical planes. After receiving a B.Arch from Cornell University, Cole returned to his hometown and worked for several top landscaping firms and the San Francisco Botanical Garden, where his love for landscape and gardens was solidified. His ability to conceptualize imaginative designs and transform them into comprehensive, meticulous, and yet beautiful plans is a true gift. He conducts our projects seamlessly from inception to implementation, working with clients, architects and contractors to bring inventive designs to life off the page. An accomplished landscape designer, fine artist, and an award winning short-film maker, Cole was simply born to create beauty in the world.

LANDSCAPE DESIGNER + FARMER

With a passion for native, pollinator friendly, and edible plants, Olivia’s original and playful ideas add a level of environmental consciousness to our designs. Olivia has a degree in Environmental Studies and a broad range of farming and food experience including interning with conservation efforts at the American Farmland Trust in New York, making wine in Italy, and working at plant nurseries. She is also an active member of the UCCE Marin Master Gardeners, where she advises community members on plant and pest problems. An avid beekeeper, Olivia’s appreciation for all of the little things is what makes her perspective indispensable to our team and the field of landscape design.

FARMER + EDUCATOR

Amy is the friendly force behind our mentorship programs and corporate classes, including managing the rooftop garden and employee group lessons at the Google SF offices. Amy has been farming for over 15 years and was recognized as one of the top 40 farmers under 40 by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. She’s a graduate of UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems program, who has managed operations, education, and production on multiple well known organic farms in the Bay Area. She also started the Petaluma Bounty Farm - a nonprofit educational farm whose mission is to make fresh food available to low income families.

STUDIO MANAGER

A New York native, Rebecca’s background is in high-end rooftop garden installation and maintenance, an experience that engendered an in-depth understanding of site constraints, seasonal concerns and client satisfaction in relation to high-visibility gardens. After two years of beautifying rooftops around NYC she became a project manager and designer for a biophilic art company, creating large scale living art pieces around the US. As our dynamic studio manager, Rebecca is involved in projects from the first phone call to the final plant delivery. She is often to be found getting her hands dirty alongside our landscapers and farmers, and generally immersing herself in all things quintessentially Californian.