Elizabeth Greynolds

Elizabeth is, first and foremost, a lover of nature and the spirit of plants. She grew up in the Southern Central Valley in an ecosystem ravaged by oil and industrial agriculture, but found refuge in the mountains of the Southern Sierras where she would catch lizards and climb granite mounds with her brothers, or sit and watch the tall grasses in a meadow sway and gallop in the breeze.

After graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.S in Psychology and minor in Linguistics, Elizabeth took a break from academia and found deep solace working with the land. Her ecologically driven approach to landscaping inspired her to take the Permaculture Design Course at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, which now influences all of her work.

Elizabeth’s current passions in her work include fruit tree pruning, planting California natives, medicinal herbs, edible/scent/ornamental gardens, and, most importantly, helping her clients develop a deeper relationship with the ecosystem that is their garden. She hopes to inspire her clients, neighbors, and friends to feel like a part of all ecosystems they live within– their yard, their neighborhood, watershed, human community, and world. She believes that finding beauty in a landscape can be as life sustaining as finding food there.

Contact Elizabeth for yard maintenance, fruit tree pruning, and ecological inspired designs at greynoldsgardening@gmail.com.