Elizabeth Greynolds

Elizabeth grew up in the Southern Central Valley surrounded by oil fields 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 in the breeze.

After college, Elizabeth started working outside and found deep solace working with her hands in the soil. 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, their watershed, the human community, and the world. She believes that finding beauty in a landscape can be as life sustaining as finding food there.