What We Do
Consultation
We help steer you in the right direction with our extensive experience in the field. We can provide you planting suggestions, walk you through the options for materials, point you to the suppliers and sub-contractors we like. Click Here to learn more.
RAINWISE CISTERNS AND RAIN GARDENS
Click Here to Learn More about Rainwise Cisterns and Rain Gardens. CEL has installed about 30 projects to date, and know what it takes to get the job done.
Maintenance
We provide landscape maintenance programs to fit your specific landscape. Pruning, clean ups, We can mix in some plantings within that context, leading to a bodacious edible landscape through time.
DESIGN
Depending on your needs, we can put together
- quick and dirty sketches on site.
- a basic, mostly-to-scale, site plan and master plan
- detailed landscape design
- planting plans
- hardscape plans
- work plans
- construction details
Nursery
we have a small, but growing, (mostly edible) plant nursery. We grow a wide variety of veggie starts, herbs, berries, natives, and trees. It is by appointment only, and we also sell at neighborhood plant sales, farmers markets, and through various distributors in Seattle.
Build
Through our team as well as other contractors in our network, we can build out your (edible) landscapes. Of course we love plants and have professional horticulturalists to help build the soil and We have all the tools and people to do anything hardscapes/structural, to carpentry, fences, decks, pergolas), irrigation, cisterns, We love working with wood and stone!
EDIBLE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT MANAGEMENT
We work with a team in your neighborhood to design and oversee the transformation of your neighborhood space so that there is abundance everywhere. Imagine fruit trees/food forests, with all fences covered in grapes, kiwis, or other edible vines, with huge berry patches. We start with a small series of workshops to education people in your neighborhood and build capacity upon the assets that are already there, most importantly, you and your neighbors!
Workshops
We love to share what we love to do. We have put on dozens of workshops for private parties, schools, churches, and community groups cover the various subject matter relating to edible landscaping, food gardening, livestock raising, and more.