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.)
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.
GIFTS !
Christmas is coming and you want to get some nice gifts for your loved ones, but you don't want to spend money on crap that will end up in a future yard sale, right? You could do a lot worse than giving someone (or hinting that they should give you) a gift certificate for a garden class or three. Shoot me an email and I'll tell you how to get a nice looking gift certificate in time for Christmas (or have them shoot me an email, so that you'll have one under your organic, living, locally-harvested Christmas tree in time).
Of course if you have bigger fish to fry, you could order up a gift certificate for a one hour garden consultation. With the economy bumming everyone out and with the rising interest in growing edible gardens, I'm cutting my usual rate of $85/hr. to $50/hr. for sites within the Durham city limits for the months of Dec., Jan. and Feb. to encourage people to get a garden started this winter/spring.
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.
Act soon if you want one of these little gems in time for Christmas:
* Gift Certificates for Classes: $20 a pop.
* Gift Certificates for one-hour consultations inside the Durham City limits: $50 a pop.
Email me here !