I love supporting people in creating hugelkultur, soil, or rock based based beds for pollinator gardens, native plant gardens, vegetable gardens, and herb or medicinal plant gardens. I am happy to convert your grass or empty places to a space that supports carbon sequestering, more microbes, less water use, feeding yourself, and cultivating biodiversity.
I charge $30 an hour and that can include labor and material gathering as well as research needs. Zelle online banking to jai@journeywithjai.com and cash work well.
Please reach out and text 801-205-6016 or email me at jai@journeywithjai.com
I also work alongside The Living Systems Institute as a garden member of the Reinhabit Collective. Feel free to check out our site. 4 tax deductible hours a month for $100 through this non-profit.
https://reinhabit.coop/gardeners/
I have my Earth Activist PDC and experience working at Red Butte Botanical Garden, the U of U grounds, and a couple organic farms.
Below you will see photos with glimpses of growing!
Made a hugelkultur bed at my home. I am glad my housemate appreciates learning with me and trying out ways of gardening that can lend to less water use, healthier microbe-filled soil, and plants that work together and we can eat. I hope to make a fruit tree guild mimicking a micro forest situation. This bed is made of sticks from around the yard, bunny and chicken poop, and free wood chips and logs from arborists. Over time the carbon and nitrogen will break down and make rich food and soil for plants, fungi, and helpful bugs. With a gentle layer of soil on too I can seed or plant as soon as I like. Now I gotta think more about who to grow alongside the plum tree! Had to make sure to not burry this already existing tree further. There are some herbs coming in in an area I fiddled with last year and have now expanded, such as parsley who is a biannual and lemon balm who is a perennial. 🌱😊 The fencing laying across the bed is so house chickens don’t tear up too much but I may put up fencing around everything instead in good time.
All photos and information by Jai Reese of Journey With Jai 2022 or credited.