Other Projects and Efforts

We love design, the landscape, the environment, our clients, and everyone involved.  We love it so much, we want to help you and your colleagues, friends, neighbors, basically anyone and everyone to learn more about it.  Our goal is to provide information so that everyone grows, gardens and all.  Below briefly outlines some of the ways we've begun to tackle this in support of the community.

Public Speaking and Training

Jennifer has performed public speaking, teaching, and training on a variety of subjects for select clients.  Current and ongoing clients in education are the Ruth Bancroft Garden’s Design certificate program and the CNPS / Theodore Payne’s California Native Plant Landscaper Certificate Program.

Our educational clientele has also included PG&E, UC Berkeley Extension, ReScape CA, Annie’s Annuals nursery, and a smattering of garden clubs, HOA's, and other organizations.  

Our talks have included (excluding talks we currently offer through the Bancroft Garden and the CNPS program):

• Firescaping - landscaping in a fire paradigm

• Firescaping workshop - Site Evaluation with Fire in Mind

• Planting Design

• Site Design

• Planting Design, selection, and selecting individuals at nurseries

• Planting Considerations in the Understory of existing trees

• Plant list workflow - make your own custom lists!

• Water efficiency in landscapes

• Lose Your Lawn

• Landscape Maintenance

• Sheet Mulching

• MWELO

• How to select plants at a nursery (not decide what kind of plants)

• Coming soon: a topic we come up with together!

Feel free to bring your educational needs to us. 

Guidelines: technical & design

dGDA is proud to be lending expertise to local government agencies and HOA's to support their need for updated technical and design guidelines.

We are pleased to have generated reports on fire risk mitigation for local HOA's and a report for a local municipality on their capacity for using compost and mulch pursuant to SB1383 compliance.

We were also a team member for the San Francisco Dept of the Environment’s Pest Prevention by Design Landscape Guideline (online and pdf) https://sfenvironment.org/article/pest-prevention-by-design-guidelines

We worked with Santa Rosa Water on identifying the problems with weed fabric and inorganic mulches. They’ve incorporated that effort into the Water Smart Yard program here: https://www.srcity.org/3521/Garden-Design-and-Plant-Selection the document we helped with can be found here: https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/39000/WaterSmartYard_Weed-Fabric-and-Rock-Mulches

The World is on FIRE

We’ve considered writing a book on fire, hence this splurb. At the moment, we’re focused on writing for Pacific Horticulture on fire (among other things) and writing a book has been shoved to the back burner (forgive the word choice).

Find us also at https://www.lifepropertyenvironment.com/