Empowering Extraordinary Gardeners! Garden Coaching and Cooperative Design Serving the Entire D.C. Metro Area! -----
Gardenary People is a bureau of energetic garden and horticulture personal trainers dedicated to enriching the knowledge and enjoyment of everyone from seasoned gardeners to green-thumb wannabe's! We seek to reconnect the world's population to their earth through one-on-one personal coaching, educational newsletters and workshops, hands-on tutorials, and on-site landscape assessments, plant ID and diagnostics. Our team of designers and specialists create entire landscape master plans, individual area renovations, and soil rehabilitation programs devised to vastly increase planting success through proven sustainable gardening techniques thereby empowering the investment in your earth and yourself to grow beautifully! Additional Sites: www.Designing-Edible-Gardens.com is an informative, new gardening resource specializing in all things edible!Services/Products/Books: Describe Your Garden Coaching Practice: So many people are curious about the often mysterious world of horticulture. Some folks have tried for years to grow plants without success, always wondering, "What went wrong this time?" Others are simply challenged by one particular plant or circumstance which causes the specimen to suffer. Still others have worked their way around their landscape countless times and are just interested in other options, a fresh look.We meet our clients where they are. We come to you and work with you wherever you're at in your learning process, whether you're a budding, new gardener, or a winter-honed, seasoned veteran. Our personal garden coaches help you navigate the often confusing factors that affect plant growth. We provide knowledge and know-how and can provided just about everything you need to complete any size task successfully. All that we ask of our clients is a willingness to learn and a bit of elbow-grease to make it happen.As a practice, we believe in the harmony of sustainable and organic gardening. We believe biological variety is the spice of life and the health meter of a garden. And we believe conscientious human interaction with our Earth can have a great and beautiful impact on more than one individual life.What other types of Garden-Related Services Do You Offer? About Us: Jessica Frakes was found "helping" in her parents' Virginia Beach vegetable garden as early as 5 years old, fingers-in-dirt, weeding, watering, singing the entire time. Pursuing a career in the Arts, she underwent extensive training at various reputable institutions such as the Governor's Magnet School and gained her BS in Scenic Artistry from Radford University. Eventually, her deep love and appreciation of nature married with her extraordinary artistic talents! After several years in the horticultural sale and customer service industry, Jessica is now a Virginia Certified Horticulturalist with the Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association and an agent of the Fairfax Co. Master Gardener Association. Currently, she is launching Gardenary People, LLC with her business partner, Molly Phemister, contributing to the building of www.Designing-Edible-Gardens.com, and preparing to start seeds for her Spring and Summer herbs and veggies! Molly Phemister holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, as well as a Master of Education and a BA in Art. She is a published author, most recently in the mainstream press with "The Biggest Picture: Global Food and Hunger Issues" for Planning magazine, the flagship publication of the American Planning Association. Other articles include "The Beets Out Back: Bringing the Local Food Movement Home", for Joyful Dissent, and a variety of smaller pieces for both Ecoagriculture Partners and The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Molly is currently editing her book, "Agency & Abundance in the Hedgerow Landscape", to be shopped to publishers this summer, as well as building www.Designing-Edible-Gardens.com.
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Garden Coaching - Cooperative Design
Serving the Entire D.C. Metro Area
- Contact Us! - Jessica Frakes -- 703.628.1916 Molly Phemister -- 202.288.3361 -  |
