Garden Design
Common Sense Gardens offers a full range of services for landscape and garden design including urban, suburban, and rural landscapes, and edible foodscapes for home or work environments.
Garden Coaching
Have you always wanted to design a home garden or sustainable landscape? We can help you get started, through a mentoring and coaching process. Learn more.
Garden-based Education
Learn about Garden-based education which focuses on sustainable garden and landscape designs. Learn about community food systems and local food security.
Garden News…
Book Review: Real Gardens Grow Natives
Real gardens grow natives: Design, plant & enjoy a healthy northwest garden. Eileen M. Stark. 2014. Seattle, WA: Skipstone Common Sense Gardens gives this book a big GREEN THUMBS UP! Eileen M. Stark makes the case for native plants by carefully illustrating how...
Considering Backyard Habitat Certification?
Perhaps you’ve seen those signs around your neighborhood in beautiful, lush gardens proudly proclaimed as Certified Backyard Habitat. And you’ve thought, “Hey, I love nature! My yard is pretty green, how do I get one of those signs?” Well, we’re here to help! Let’s...
Permaculture as Wholistic Healing
I asked one of my new interns, Dr. Rhesa Napoli to write a guest post about her interesting path to pursuing gardening professionally. Here is what she had to say. ---Denissia As far back as I can remember, I have felt deep concern and care for others: people,...
Profiles: Katie
Katie worked during 2018 for CSG. She graduated from Portland State University with a master’s degree in Leadership for Sustainability Education. After a brief project in New Zealand working as a youth outdoor program coordinator, Katie returned to Portland to study...
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