horticoaching
Horticoaching is a personalized garden mentoring service that blends practical design advice, hands-on guidance, and mindset shifts to help you enjoy your garden, not just manage it. It’s about transforming gardening from a chore into a creative, calming, and deeply satisfying experience. Whether you're troubleshooting, redesigning, or just feeling overwhelmed, horticoaching supports you in reconnecting with your garden in a way that feels joyful, not like more work.
Neat Flower Farm, based in Southeast Portland, offers a uniquely intimate approach to transforming urban spaces into thriving, sustainable, healing ecosystems. My goal is to help you turn your space into a sustainable, eco-friendly haven that feels alive in every sense of the word. My passions are rooted in turning lawns, balconies, and forgotten corners into edible, biodiverse gardens, to promote the integration of vegetables, herbs, flowers, and native plants to support pollinators and wildlife. My guidance emphasizes not only growing and sharing food and flowers, but also reconnecting with nature, fostering biodiversity, and promoting ecological health. Supporting the return of pollinator-friendly plants. My services include designing pollinator, edible, and cut flower gardens, offering advice in all aspects of gardening, composting, and chicken keeping, while also teaching sustainable practices like water catchment and companion planting. Neat Flower Farm isn’t about just growing flowers, it is is about growing self and creating gardens that nourish the planet and the people.
This one-hour consultation is your chance to ask questions, hatch ideas, and sprinkle a little magic on your plans. Whether you’re arriving with a dream, a dilemma, or a to-do list, I’m here to help you sort it out with care and creativity.
WE WILL SHARE a full hour of focused time, with plenty of room for inspiration, planning, and some great conversation. Let’s make something wonderful happen, together!
Our journey starts with a tour of your space where you walk me through your observations, vision, goals, successes, and failures.
if you are interested in setting up a consultation to start growing food and flowers in a happy garden ecosystem, lets connect!
Horticoaching Session (1 hour)
Care + skills + day-to-day integration → Horticoaching
For existing and new gardeners who want to get their hands in the soil and grow their confidence alongside their plants, my horticoaching service offers personalized, hands-on guidance every step of the way.
This is a collaborative, educational experience designed to empower you with practical skills from pruning and plant selection to ongoing garden care. Together, we work within your space, your goals, and your lifestyle to create a garden that feels manageable, rewarding, and aligned with your well-being.
Horticoaching goes beyond technique. It’s about cultivating a relationship with your garden that reduces stress and increases joy. With an ecological lens, we also teach how to garden in harmony with all living creatures encouraging balance, observation, and respect for the interconnected systems that make a garden truly flourish.
This is a good fit for you if…
You want to start a garden
You need guidance and support in your own garden
You are interested in getting chickens and what to learn more about care and integration into your space
You want to learn how to save seed and start plants from seed
You want to build confidence in skills like pruning, planting, and maintenance
You’re looking for a more meaningful, calming connection with your outdoor space
You want to garden in a way that supports both your well-being and the ecosystem
I’m looking forward to connecting and exploring next steps,
