We specialize in hedges and understory trees that yield greater biodiversity, wildlife habitats, and even the dinner table. We help select, plant, and maintain these special hedges along with your routine lawn service.

Fruits and Vegetables

We can install arbors, grape trellis, raised beds, and greenhouses to integrate your garden with landscaping that is pleasing to the eye. We can start with a custom design just for you, or build from reclaimed materials

Examples include:

• Blueberries
• Figs
• Apples
• Pears
• Herbs and spices
• Grapes

Trimming and Clearing

In addition to pruning understory trees like crepe myrtle, peach, and cherry, we can also clear along driveways and fence lines.

Remove Yard waste and Junk

We offer rock-bottom pricing on hauling yard debris because we have space for natural decomposition of mulch and compost. We use oak ash as a soil amendment, and 4-5″ logs for growing our shiitake mushrooms.

We also haul household junk to make room for more garden space. From cleaning out the attic to moving junk cars, we make it all disappear.

Eat Wild

We love edible wild plants and mushrooms, like this tasty chicken of the woods that Jennifer recently found. Chances are, your yard already contains a bounty of wild edible and medicinal plants that we can show you.

We Also Plant Fence Posts

We do the heavy lifting so you can focus on growing a great garden. We also spead rock and maintain gravel driveways so you can get to your garden.

Favorite Places

• Foxfire Museum – A Georgia high school teacher in the 1970’s tasked his students with writing about vanishing Appalachian people and traditions. The result was a decades long project that teaches everything from bushcraft to folklore. https://www.foxfire.org/visit-us/
• North Carlolina Wild Food weekend – This year, we volunteered to host “Breads and Spreads”, a group project to forage and prepare a meal using wild ingredients. https://wildfoodadventures.com/workshop/north-carolina-wild-food-weekend/

A Few of Our Favorites

• Blueberries – While Georgia is best known for peaches, blueberries have become our state’s most lucrative crop. I have blueberries in my yard. Let’s put some in yours.
• Yaupon Holly – Check out offerings of dried leaves and tea from the largest online retailers. We can plant some for your year-round enjoyment.
• Mushrooms, shiitake – We bring tools and supplies to inoculate freshly cut oak logs with mushroom spawn. The hardest part is waiting until the second season for production.
• Mushrooms, oyster – For more instant gratification, try growing Oyster mushrooms on straw on even coffee grounds. We can show you how!

Favorite Books and Websites

• Arborday.org – Learn to identify simple vs compound leaves, alternate vs opposite leaves, and use their handy decision tree to identify any tree in your region. https://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/
• Foxfire Book Series – All of them. I recommend starting with the first book, which was given to me when I graduated from Texas A&M University in 2010. Thanks Gwen! You can buy online, or better yet, visit the Foxfire museum here in Georgia and pick them up in the gift shop.
• Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: of Eastern and Central North America I first met Sam in 2011 at a week-long wild food campout on a reservation in Minnesota. As I was drying my socks by a campfire that would later fuel an earth oven, Sam arrived with a homemade press made from a spare tire jack to render tasty cooking oil from acorns. Sam’s latest field guide is the best.
• Mushrooms Demystified by David Aurora Recommended at a wild mushroom foraging campout years ago, it contains many identification methods such as veils, spore prints, and gill types.
• Foraging Texas – With many plants common to Georgia, this is one of the most comprehensive websites to learn about wild edibles. I attended several of Merriwether’s classes in Texas around 2010-2015, and once bartered a truck toolbox for him to ID the tasty “weeds” on my property.
• Here is another favorite. https://www.eattheweeds.com/

A Note About Affiliate Links – We registered to provide affiliate links and then decided to skip it. If you would like our opinion on products made from hedges, “weeds”, or the best beginner mushroom kits, we are happy to send links to our favorites. Happy Gardening.