Sustainable Landscaping Professionals

Dog Island Farm

Rachel Brinkerhoff, PLA & Tom Ferguson

Owners 

info@dogislandfarm.com

Harmony Organics

Organic soil products and amendments

Harmony Organics is a family-owned, Benicia-based business that provides high-quality, non-GMO, natural and organic soil products that include potting soils, coco coir bricks, worm castings, bokashi, pumice, compost tea and liquid and dry microbial products.

Mention Sustainable Solano when placing your order, and we’ll receive a donation for each purchase in your honor!

Areas served

Solano County

Contact information

harmony-organics.com

info@harmony-organics.com 

Native Sun Gardens

Joshua Burman Thayer
Landscape Designer, Horticulture Consultant

Sustainable services offered:

• Landscape Site Analysis (2-hour on-site visit, plant list, estimates of labor, referrals)
• Landscape Design Plan (2-hour on-site visit, base map, planting plan, budget document, estimates of labor, referrals)
• Remote Landscape Design Plan (plant list, estimates of labor, referrals)

Joshua Burman Thayer has always had his hands in the Earth as he has traveled extensively throughout the Americas, working w/ communities around plants and food.

Starting as a W.W.O.O.F. volunteer on organic farms throughout Latin America, to working as a laborer on organic CSA farms back home in California, to apprenticing and working in ecological landscape design, to doing native plant field research with renowned mentors, Joshua has become a lead designer and advocate for uniting Ecology with Aesthetic, creating beautiful, productive natural systems that work with nature to foster bounty.

Joshua holds a degree cum laude from Humboldt State University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Engineering. He offers a 50% off discount to the Sustainable Solano community on select services as a way to promote permaculture.

Areas served 

The greater Bay Area and elsewhere in California

Contact information

Joshua Burman Thayer
Landscape Designer, Horticulture Consultant
510-332-2809
nativesungardens.com

Prime Concrete Construction

A company that can cut concrete for laundry-to-landscape and other sustainable landscaping installations

Areas served

Solano County

Contact information

(707) 563-4549

Scotty’s Organic Gardening

Scott Dodson

Certified Horticulturist

Stating that plants have given him a second lease on life, Scott focuses on services that support his company slogan: “Helping you build a better yard from the ground up.” His services include general organic gardening, planting, landscape maintenance, landscape designing, drip irrigation, organic fertilizers, compost teas, beneficial microbe applications, organic pest management, light to mid-range tree pruning and soil amendments. Scott has a Permaculture Design Certificate through Vital Cycles and Sustainable Solano.

Areas served

Benicia, Vallejo, Suisun City,  Fairfield and Vacaville

Contact information

scottysorganicgardening@gmail.com

Simply Perfect Gardens

Alison W Fleck, APLD
Owner

Sustainable services offered:

• Design of rain gardens and on-site swales for groundwater recharging
• Understand and employ WELO landscape constraints

Alison is a landscape designer who works with homeowners to create the most sustainable garden that will suit their needs. She understands and employs WELO landscape constraints and designs for minimum lawn, maximum drought tolerance, focus on edibles and environmentally sound practices.

She has a strong horticultural background, dating back for over 40 years, which includes multiple certificates from DVC, training at Merritt College, years of nursery work and maintenance work before that. She has been designing full time for about 13 years.

Areas served 

Benicia

Contact information

Simply Perfect Gardens
707-747-9463
www.simplyperfectgardens.com

Soilogical BioSolutions and Designs

Michael Wedgley
Owner

Sustainable services offered:

• Permaculture Design and Implementation
• Soil Health Assessment and Consulting
• Garden Design and Installation
• Drip Irrigation Installation
• Drought-Resistant Landscaping
• Edible Landscapes & Food Forests
• Water Conservation Solutions
• Rainwater Harvesting and Irrigation
• Land Restoration and Rehabilitation
• Greywater Design

Michael Wedgley of Soilogical BioSolutions and Designs, is a regenerative landscape designer and soil consultant. He holds certifications in Permaculture Landscape Design, Water Harvesting Design, and Soil Food Web Lab Technician, and is passionate about creating sustainable, beautiful environments that connect people with the natural world.

With his broad experience and knowledge of regenerative landscapes, Michael creates impactful designs that are both functional and beautiful. As a former program manager for Sustainable Solano, he has installed community gardens throughout Solano County.

Michael’s ultimate goal is to create sustainable and regenerative landscapes that not only look beautiful but serve to provide amazingly healthy food and ecologically thoughtful spaces for the environment.

Areas served 

Solano, Contra Costa, Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties

Contact information

Michael Wedgley
Regenerative Landscape Designer and Consultant
925-732-8210
Soilogical.com

Studio 1515 Landscape Architects

Susan Heiken, PLA CASp & Rachel Brinkerhoff, PLA BFQP
Landscape Architects

Sustainable services offered:

• Landscape and garden design specializing in native, drought tolerant and edible plants
• Incorporates MWELO and stormwater management and treatment into all designs
• Focus on creating sustainable landscapes requiring fewer inputs
• Fire-wise defensible space at the wildland-urban interface
• Certified Access Specialist
• Bay Friendly Qualified Professional

Studio 1515 provides beautiful and unique landscape environments. Their plans reflect clients’ visions and goals, meet or exceed sustainability criteria to protect our natural resources and can be built and function in the real world. Studio 1515 has experience in custom residential, hospitality, public projects including streetscapes, design guidelines, river restoration and MWELO and accessibility compliance.

Areas served 

Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Marin, Contra Costa & Alameda counties

Contact information

707-252-6115
www.studio1515napa.com

info@studio1515napa.com

Peter Swenson

Peter Swenson

Owner, Certificates in Horticulture foundations, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Design, Nursery Management, Arboriculture, Greywater Design and Install, Land Caretakers training

Peter Swenson is a landscape designer who has spent the last few years gaining a rounded education in the horticultural arts. Over that time, he has earned five certificates in the field, plus more from other sources. His experience in the nursery environment interacting with local landscapers has given him a perspective on what’s good for the landscape through a community-learned lens. He has designed and installed several greywater systems into both existing and new landscapes. He believes that every landscape should offer more than just something to look at: plants offer texture and scents, as well as color that can more than make up for a traditional lawn. He has started his own landscaping business in Solano County and is moving forward to make it grow!

Areas served

Benicia and Vallejo

Contact information

peterjswenson@gmail.com
925-378-9751

Water Service Irrigation Co.

Seth Wright, owner/irrigation efficiency specialist

Drip irrigation and consultation

Seth Wright has been gardening and landscaping for over 20 years. His start was in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. He moved to the SF Bay Area in 2003. Working as a landscape maintenance foreman he noticed how much water was being wasted in the California landscape. Seth quickly started his own landscaping company and over the years his focus has shifted to irrigation efficiency. Seth Wright is now owner of Water Service, an irrigation company that offers design, build and management. The goal at Water Service is water conservation through irrigation efficiency. Seth is QWEL certified and has a proven track record for saving water in the California landscape.

Areas served

Serving the greater Bay Area
Cities served in Solano County: Benicia, Fairfield, Vacaville and Vallejo

Contact information

info@waterservice-ca.com
510-830-8852