Garden Gab

Cheryl is obsessed with transforming underused, outdated, and resource-guzzling landscapes into resilient, watershed-friendly, functional habitats that work in harmony with nature and conserve one of our most precious resources – water. She loves to share tried and true practices with residents and landscape professionals through teaching opportunities, creating demonstration gardens, and by consulting with water providers to help develop incentive programs and resources.

Qualifications

• Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper & Instructor (QWEL)
• Certified Landscape Irrigation Auditor (CLIA)
• ReScape Resilient Regenerative Firescaping Qualified
• Associate of Science: Environmental Horticulture

Justin is a seasoned professional in landscape, agriculture, water distribution, and irrigation technology, holding a B.S. in Agricultural Sciences, Landscape Contractors license and industry certifications such as an Irrigation Auditor.

Aaron is the Specification Manager for Hunter Industries in the Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada markets. Hunter is a global manufacturer of full line irrigation products for Residential, Commercial and Golf projects. He has over 20 years of work in the Landscape Design and Construction industry, which has has given him the opportunity to educate about irrigation design, troubleshooting, and best management practices.

The Master Gardeners of Placer County are UC-trained volunteers offering accurate, impartial, science-based information to home gardeners in Placer County.

Don has over 40 years of experience in the field of irrigation water efficiency and education. He owned and operated a landscape business installing, maintaining, and updating irrigation systems, and is an irrigation educator leading workshops and seminars for homeowners and professionals.

He retired from the City of Folsom where he served as the Water Conservation Coordinator, evaluating irrigation systems and advising customers on better ways to use water more efficiently.

Don helped found the Green Gardener qualification program for professionals and the Green Gardener at Home program for homeowners.

Steven has 50 years’ experience in organic horticulture as a retail nursery manager, landscape maintenance provider, researcher, and educator who has given presentations on related topics across the country. He has won numerous environmental awards for his work in the field and his educational contributions about healthy soils and least toxic/organic pest management.

Qualifications

• Retired, President of Living Resources Company
• Executive Director of Biological Urban Gardening Services (BUGS) (newsletter publisher)
• Integrated Pest Management Advocate with Our Water Our World

Carole is a long-time gardener with experience and training in fruit trees and shade trees, who serves as a community forester with the Roseville Urban Forest Foundation.

Julie is a Placer County Master Gardener and an IPM advocate with Our Water our World. Using University of California information.

Julie gives answers that you can use right away to improve your yard and garden on topics like irrigation, insects, and disease. She can help answer questions like: won't that thing fruit, and why do I have weeds?

Marcia has been in the landscaping trade for 40 years: first physically installing and maintaining landscapes, then 25 years designing and consulting in landscapes. For the past 14 years, she has also maintained an arborist certification. Learn more about Marcia at her website mjsland.com

Soleil loves to unify home and garden while honoring our natural environment. She is deeply committed to watershed wise values and inviting folks back into the garden. She specializes in low water use, unlawning, habitat, and edible gardens for humans to share.

Qualifications

• A.S. Horticulture: Landscape Design & Nursery Industry
• Advanced certificate California School of Landscape Design
• Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL)
• G3 Certified Watershed Wise Landscape Pro

Lani is a retired Sierra College Instructor in Environmental Horticulture and Agriculture. She serves as arborist and board member for the Roseville Urban Forest Foundation.

Locally owned nursery chain supplying plants, gardening products. A representative will be available to assist with gardening needs that can be purchased at Green Acres.

Sunny is a Water Conservation Worker II for the City of Roseville with over twenty years of experience in the landscaping industry. 

Her work has included residential landscape design, construction, installation, maintenance, and plant nursery work.  She also worked as a Consulting Utility Arborist for PG&E’s vegetation management program, where she received her Arborist certification.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science with a concentration in Natural Resource Conservation and is certified as a Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper as well as a Water Use Efficiency Practitioner.

She spends most of her spare time in the garden, composting, growing veggies, herbs, and flowers.