Johanna Salmon has been working in plant tending, soil building and bringing artful structure into yards for going on a decade now. She has been experimenting with holistic and artful garden concepts in her own garden and observing the results closely. Adding depth and intrigue into the edges of cultivated space has been a rewarding task and one that continues to bring new challenges. 

Johanna specializes in creating beautiful and functional privacy hedges that provide food and shelter for pollinators, pleasing structure, and a diversity of plants to initiate a self perpetuating mini ecosystem. These border beds can be very satisfying and take on a life of their own after a few years. 

She also spends time working with the excess material left over from the garden growth and tending cycle, creating artful compost swales to create a system of gardening that is low maintenance and natural. Reframing our ideas of beauty and value in the garden are important components to deepening our relationship with our space and understanding our impact on the natural systems around us.