Vision

To create landscapes that awaken kinship, humanity, healing, transformation, and remembrance of our belonging to the Earth and each other.

Services

Serving a diversity of clients and communities who have a desire to make meaning, offer interpretation/education, memorialize, and/or promote healing in landscapes big and small, including individuals and families, parks and open space entities, indigenous communities, conservation organizations, museums, meditation and wellness groups, hospice and healthcare entities, schools, municipalities, victims of traumatic events, etc. Garden design for remembrance of loved ones, and/or to aid ancestral healing. Native plant and rewilding design available as well.

  • Concept design begins with an inclusive, heartfelt and iterative process to best meet your heart and vision.

  • Design of landscape installations and gardens that support dynamic processes of healing and grief work.

  • Design of memorial landscapes that can be custom, personal and private, and/or that may embrace ritual, impermanence, transformative elements, movement, song, and community engagement.

  • Interpretive work may include the design and fabrication of free-standing art, murals, panels, benches, and other landscape features.

  • Jessica is licensed Landscape Architect with decades of experience in preparing documentation to execute a successful project from start to finish.

Research Mission

I am currently pursuing a number of grants to support further research on trauma-informed, interactive healing landscapes and memorial design. I am looking to establish a board of peers and collaborators from the the realms of trauma therapy, grief tending, and community singing. This research will include a number of pilot projects, and will be shared broadly through the publication of a book. This work aims to ultimately benefit communities who have experienced crises such as wildfire, mass shootings, etc. Contact me if you would like to support or collaborate on this exciting mission, or help support this mission through Patreon.

Clients + Collaborators

California State Parks

Esselen Tribe of Monterey County

Point Lobos Foundation

Day Schildkret | Morning Altars

Ventana Wildlife Society

Ann Baker Landscape Architecture

Sonoma-Marin Water Saving Partnership

Jayson Fann Spirit Nest Creations

West Cook Wild Ones

Carmel River Watershed Conservancy