Small gardens
Thoughtful plans for courtyards, backyards, food gardens, and compact spaces.
Permaculture-informed garden design • Southern Oregon
Gardens made for living.
Thoughtful landscape and garden designs tailored to your needs, your place, and the scale of your dreams — from a small home garden to a larger growing landscape.
A garden can feed us, teach us, shelter us, and bring us back to ourselves.
01 / Garden Design
Design that starts with your place.
I offer permaculture-informed landscape and garden design tailored to each client and each site. The goal is not to impose one look, but to notice what is already there and create a design that fits the land, the people, and the way the space will be used.
Larger landscapes
Whole-site thinking for larger gardens, homesteads, and growing spaces.
Custom design
A design process shaped around your goals, conditions, resources, and capacity.
Growing food
Productive spaces designed around soil, season, and everyday use.
Planting together
Gardens can be places for learning, connection, and shared work.
Regenerative growing
Design that considers patterns, relationships, and the long life of a site.
Observe • Connect • Design
Work with what the land is already telling you.
02 / About Mae Gardens
A lifelong love of gardens, shaped by permaculture.
I fell in love with gardening at a young age. I find some of my calmest moments among my garden, and my very first job was at a plant nursery.
When I felt the urge to leave my hometown, I joined a work-exchange program in Italy and worked on a permaculture homestead. I fell in love with its philosophy and way of life. Since then, I have been striving to share those principles in the hope of changing lives in the way they changed mine.
For those unfamiliar with the word, permaculture is a design approach for creating sustainable human habitats and agricultural systems. The term was coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in Australia in the 1970s. Their early work developed into a broader design philosophy, and Permaculture One was published in 1978.
Permaculture also has deeper roots than its modern name and founders. Its ideas have been influenced by many traditions and by Indigenous and traditional land-based knowledge developed over generations. I believe it is important to recognize those histories, respect the cultural and spiritual values connected to them, and practice permaculture with humility rather than treating those teachings as something newly invented.
For me, responsible permaculture offers practical ways to move from a degenerative, extractive relationship with our surroundings toward more sustainable and regenerative ways of living.
03 / Events
Gather, learn, grow.
Workshops, garden walks, seasonal gatherings, and other events will be posted here as they take shape.
No events posted yet.
Check back soon, or get in touch if you would like to hear when the next gathering is announced.
04 / Art
Garden-inspired work.
Artwork and small pieces can live here as the collection grows. This space is ready for paintings, drawings, prints, handmade objects, and other work inspired by the living world.
ARTComing soonMade with a love of plants, place, and observation.
05 / Education
Learn to see the garden as a whole.
Future workshops and educational offerings will explore practical garden skills, permaculture principles, plant relationships, observation, and ways to build more resilient growing systems.
Garden planning
Learn how to observe a site and turn your goals into a practical garden plan.
Permaculture principles
Explore whole-system thinking and ways to design for connection, resilience, and regeneration.
Growing together
Future workshops and gatherings will create space for hands-on learning and community.
06 / Contact
Let's make something grow.
Mae Gardens Landscape Design serves Southern Oregon. Tell me about your space, your ideas, or what you'd like to create.