I can help gardeners with plant ID, quick-and-dirty garden designs, teaching garden maintenance and planting skills, etc.
I can coach do-it-yourselfers with hardscape projects: how to build a patio, deck, treehouse, water garden, you-name-it, I can probably help you figure out how to build it soundly and creatively. (Inside Durham City limits only please for consultations, unless you can pay for my travel time. :-)
I can also provide gift certificates for my lectures or garden classes (check those pages at left for details, dates and prices.)
As a former organic farmer, an IPM scout for tomato growers, a Clementine-picker in Spain, a co-founder of 3 community gardens, a designer of edible schoolyard gardens, a samurai fruit tree pruner, a trained horticulturist and an organic gardener for 28 years, I can get you (and your church or school or neighborhood) started on the right foot with growing vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, perennial vegetables, the whole organic garden cornucopia.
I can also help you and yours with reducing the workload in maintaining a garden--less weeding, raking, watering, worrying. In a one hour consultation, I can show you how to arrange your garden and your tasks in a way that has you spending less time working and more time enjoying your garden with a gin and tonic in one hand. That's what I call being the Liberated Gardener. There's no need to feel enslaved by your garden.
Also, for all of you who want to be able to save the earth and have fresh smelling laundry, I'm now offering gift certificates for design and construction of custom clothesline posts like the ones I've built for clients and for us here at Bayleaf Cottage.
Contact me at fincaminor@mindspring.com if you're interested and I can send you pictures of clothesline posts I've built. I've been making them with Ipe lumber--a sustainably harvested substitute for mahogany and teak--so the wood is rot resistant and has a very beautful brown color and nice knot-free grain.
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