Meet Nikki. She loves being in nature, respects that we are nature, and believes humans have everything to learn from nature.

She grew up in suburbia, where neighbors would report you for letting dandelions grow in your yard and “good landscaping” meant a flat lawn and sharp edges. Later, she went to college in a concrete jungle, where parks were just manicured water‑hungry spaces. During those five years, she wrote endlessly about “sustainability” in essays but rarely saw it in practice.

Eventually, that disconnect became too loud to ignore. Nikki left academia and her conventional civil engineering job and sought out regenerative farms to live, work, and learn on. On those farms, sustainability wasn’t a buzzword; it was how people kept the land healthy enough to survive. Composting, cover cropping, succession planting, and water‑harvesting weren’t trends—they were everyday tools copied from nature that made the farms function at their best.

Nikki’s landscape design style grows directly out of these experiences and the principle of mimicking nature. Those years taught her that:

• Earth can produce food so abundantly that no one should go hungry.

• Pesticides and synthetic fertilizers act like addictive band‑aids, covering symptoms instead of healing the root issue…usually soil.

• Regular contact with living landscapes changes people—how they feel, what they notice, and how much they care about the world around them.