Meadowsweet Design LLC works with individuals, organizations, businesses, and institutions who want to make a change, spend time outside, enhance biodiversity and increase pollinator habitat, grow medicinal herbs and edible plants, renew an existing garden, reduce lawn, address drainage issues, and deepen their ecological knowledge about their land.
Site Analysis & Design
The design process is rooted in each site’s unique set of characteristics, opportunities, constraints, and client goals. An initial site visit is the first step to determine if and how we’d move forward in the design process. Meadowsweet Design uses site analysis as context to understand your property and the surrounding landscape. This process informs the iterative design process.
Implementation and Maintenance
Meadowsweet offers design implementation, landscape maintenance & garden management. Examples include site preparation, soil building, garden rehabilitation, meadow formation, and general land stewardship. The discovery and emergence of surprises, needs, and goals while spending time on a property allows for responsiveness and what I call, design/build/grow!
Garden Coaching
Coaching empowers folks to understand their site from a holistic and ecological perspective, and builds connection to place. Meadowsweet will work alongside clients to answer questions and respond to specific site conditions, and teach skills to grow and maintain one’s garden or landscape. Learn to identify plants, tend perennials, build soil, pruning tips, proper harvest techniques, and how to notice the first signs of pest pressure or disease. Consultations can take place over the phone or video chat!
Herbal Consultations & Growing Medicinals
A clinically trained herbalist, Karen consults with clients to incorporate medicinal and culinary herbs and edible perennials that are specific to the client’s health and wellness goals. She blends her deep connection with plants and her experience growing and processing herbs to teach folks proper techniques for tending, harvesting, and processing the plants for medicinal uses. This includes tea, extracts, elixirs, salves, and more!