Rochelle Greayer was raised in a family of gardeners and ranchers.  She dreamed of traveling to space and grew up to become a Physicist Rocket Scientist. After that amazing accomplishment she yearned to return to her roots and was trained as a Landscape Designer while living in London.  She's the author of Cultivating Garden Style by Timber Press. Her astonishing new accomplishment is that she's founded a cool new garden and landscape community newspaper: Pith & Vigor!  
P&V celebrates native plants, local and regional gardeners and the sheer, stunning beauty of biodiversity in our living landscape.  Have a listen to this wildly inspiring woman's  insights on the growth of the gardening movement sweeping the nation and the World.   

Pith and Vigor: A Fascinating New Garden Newspaper with a Fascinating Founder, Rochelle Greayer

Creating as much change as possible," is the motto of my guest, Trevor Smith, owner of Land Escapes, in Arlington Massachusetts.  He is also the current President of Ecological Landscape Alliance. I caught up with him to hear about the Fairmount Line Bus Shelter Living Roof Initiative he's partnered on with Michael Chavez, an architectural designer and Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow for the Fairmount-Indigo Line CDC Collaborative, in Boston. 

Trevor Smith, ELA President, Talks About Boston Bus Shelter Living Roof Initiative

Claire Jones is a Landscape Designer who has successfully been using digital and social media to organically grow her business for a decade. Listen as she shares her savvy strategies to reach new clients, communicate with existing ones and network with peers. 

Claire Jones: Landscape Designer & Social Media Maven Shares Successful Strategies

It's Rachel Carson's 108th birthday. Who better to have a conversation with then Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed., and Author of the blog "What Would Rachel Say?"  She is founder of www.healthy-kids.info, an advocacy service committed to children's health security and educational equity. Ellie is active in local, state and national public health and safety organizations dedicated to citizen engagement, government accountability and corporate responsibility on behalf of children and their healthy development. Listen as she shares her  mission to create a culture of "Sentinel Lions"  with the courage, the confidence, the reverence for life, and the sense of responsibility to speak out during a period of widespread pesticide abuse and environmental degradation, just like Rachel Carson did with Silent Spring.

Ellie Goldberg, M. Ed., & Author of the blog "What Would Rachel Say?"

Welcome to the newly improved Finding Safeground Podcast! I will feature guests who are innovative professionals and product distributors, change agent activists, and end user clients to help you hear from today’s organic landscape consumer as well as experts in the field.