Michael A. Gilkey, Inc. is a full service design-build landscape architecture studio in Sarasota, Florida. Established in 1981, the firm is steeped in a culture of passion for thoughtful design, and a belief in appropriate, sustainable horticultural practices. Alongside the community’s finest architects, builders, and our discerning clientele, we create exterior spaces that are unique translations of our clients’ visions. We work with skilled artisans and tradesmen, our experienced landscape contracting team, and our professional maintenance technicians to ensure a seamless continuity of each concept as it evolves, through every phase of the design process and beyond.

Author of "Off the Air" column in bi-monthly publications about all things motherhood.

I serve as the fundraising committee chair and event planner on the volunteer Executive Board of Directors for the Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Sarasota's pregnant women, infants and young children.

Co-producer, writer, hostess and programmer of Maternally Yours: Sarasota's Conversation about Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Motherhood

you CREATE. we BOUNCE.Kangaroo Promotions is a Sarasota based freelance marketing agency that will bounce your project into the limelight. Capabilities include project placement, graphic & web design coordination, publicity, event planning, grant writing, media relations, research, consumer relations, marketability and much more.

Born in Sarasota is a collective of thoughts, articles, birth stories, events, and evidence in action supporting healthy, normal childbirth in our community. We are dedicated to promoting choices in mother-friendly maternity care practices and providers, informed consent for our pregnant families, and increased support of normal childbirth.