After obtaining a permaculture design certificate, Sara furthered her environmental studies in soil biochemistry and formed Octarine Landscape Design to help others create and maintain beautiful, healthy, and resilient landscapes that support life. This led to transition toward direct action on local landscapes. From that experience she gained a deep respect for those making the largest impact: the individuals coming together to make good choices for their land, natural resources, families, and communities. Sara has written on the dual issues of forced migration and trapped populations due to climate change impacts, large scale agricultural land concessions and management, land reform for subsistence farmers, community forest governance, and carbon markets. After obtaining an LLM from UW Law in sustainable international development, Sara built a consulting practice for global climate policy research focused on women’s and indigenous land rights as foundational pillars of equitable climate change mitigation and adaptation. Lawyer turned ecological designer with a passion for empowering people to respond to climate change with hope and concrete action. Beyond this work, Katie is a passionate wildlife tracker, poet, astrologer, writer, paddleboarder, singer, and baker of wildly delicious herbal desserts. They believe the earth heals through us and, in these extraordinary times of climate upheaval, that the earth needs all the “green thumbs” it can get. They believe grief and ancestral repair is an unavoidable part of healing our relationship with land. They believe gardening is a therapeutic act, enhancing our personal healing and major life thresholds. Katie marries their services with a background in rites of passage ceremony and trauma-informed facilitation. They own and operate an ecological gardening consulting business called Tending Alive. Katie teaches at both the UW’s School of Landscape Architecture and Bastyr University’s Holistic Landscape Design program. Over the past decade, they were Garden Supervisor of Bastyr University’s medicinal herb gardens & Sacred Seeds Ethnobotanical Trail, and taught organic and ecological gardening classes all over King County as a Garden Hotline educator for Tilth Alliance, also offering personal coaching and consultations rooted in permaculture principles. Katie got started working at a local plant nursery and on organic farms all over the world. Katie supports clients in navigating overwhelm to find a plan for their yard that they love, mentoring people in building the skills to grow abundant food and medicine for their communities. They offer ecological garden coaching, consultations and classes with a special focus on medicinal and edible plants. With over 17 years of working with plants, Katie brings a strong background in horticulture, ecological restoration and herbal medicine to the team. Languages: English, NVC/trauma-informed communication When she is not working, she enjoys the outdoors: snowboarding, hiking, her horses, running, yoga, biking, rollerskating and stays strong with Olympic weightlifting. She has 3 kids and spends time with them around their little farm, with a handful of animals and gardens to look after. Currently she was appointed as an Agriculture Commissioner for King County, as well a member of the WA DNR Urban and Community Forestry Committee. Jessi is passionately committed to volunteering in the community and sits on several advisory boards within the green industry and educational/environmental organizations hoping to empower people, also raising industry standards, and helped develop the EcoPro program for WA State. Bloom to numerous environmental awards, traveling nationwide as a speaker and is the best-selling author: Free-Range Chicken Gardens (2012) Practical Permaculture Design(2015)which is now in 6 languages and Creating Sanctuary: Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant Based Medicine and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-Being (2017) and its companion workbook Everyday Sanctuary(2019) Jessi’s work has gotten press and been featured in many national and local media outlets from the NY Times, Better Homes & Gardens, Sunset Magazine, DISNEY, Martha Stewart Living, Mother Earth News, UTNE Reader, Fine Gardening Magazine and PBS’s Growing a Greener World TV. Seattle Times named her a “ rockstar in the ecological gardening movement“, with her leadership combined with artistic design talents she led N.W. In early 2000, she decided to start an ethical business in the green industry to fill a niche for organic and ecological landscaping. Her early experience ranged in project management, from organizing restoration projects with community volunteers, to high-end residential and commercial landscape design/build. Jessi was born and raised in the PNW and has a strong background of horticulture and environmental sciences.
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