Garden/Food writer for Shrinking Kitchen Blog at ShrinkingKitchen.com.

Sustainable landscape design for containers, vegetable gardens and small-scale projects. Locates, purchases and arranges logistics for delivery of trees, shrubs and ground covers to landscape clients and architects throughout the Puget Sound Region. Liaisons with multiple nurseries and growers in the area to provide high-quality plants for high-end residential properties. Horticultural Consulting and Sales.Estimate and develop bids for projects from $1000 to $200,000, balancing from 6 to 8 projects per week. Negotiates between nurseries and growers to secure best products for best prices where products vary dramatically by size, variety, specification, quantity, growing conditions and overall quality.Research hard-to-find items using on-line search engines and building strong working relationships with growers. Recognized for expert knowledge of thousands of varieties of plants. Accessing on-line availabilities and catalogs on a daily and weekly basis.Consistently meet tight and often moving deadlines, balancing between needs and inventories of growers and landscape crews, project managers and clients.

Landscape Design, Container and Edible Design, Garden Coaching and Consulting.

Plant purchasing agent, horticultural consultant, garden coach, and sales and marketing for landscape division.

Locates, purchases and arranges logistics for delivery of trees, shrubs and ground covers to landscape clients and architects throughout the Pacific Northwest. Liaisons with over 350 nurseries and growers on the West Coast to provide high-quality plants for commercial and high-end residential properties.Estimate and develop bids for projects from $5000 to $500,000, balancing from 8 to 12 projects per week. Negotiates between nurseries and growers to secure best products for best prices where products vary dramatically by size, variety, specification, quantity, growing conditions and overall quality.Make complex transportation arrangements to insure timely and cost-efficient pick-up and delivery of high-volume, perishable and fragile goods throughout California, Oregon and Washington.Consistently meet tight and often moving deadlines, balancing between needs of growers and landscape contractors, and balancing realities of transportation and logistical challenges.Earned reputation for consistently supplying highest quality products in high-volume market within deadline.

Sourced and purchased plant materials, fertilizers, sod and hydroseed for commercial and residential construction divisions of the company. Served as liaison between project managers and landscape architects to provide high-quality materials for completion of complex landscape construction projects.