About Pamela Doan, garden coach

I started writing Roots and Shoots, a weekly gardening column for the Highlands Current newspaper in 2013 as an outlet to share my search for information about gardening and landscaping ecologically. After years of growing things in various environments - a city-sized yard in Seattle, a rooftop in Brooklyn – I was in for a huge learning curve when we moved to 9 acres with a forest on a mountainside in Cold Spring, NY. So many possibilities! So many challenges! Huge mistakes were made!

By seeking answers to my own questions, readers came along as I interviewed researchers and professionals. Being a journalist gave me access to people, conferences, classes and other situations that shaped my efforts to tend an organic vegetable and herb garden, grow shitake mushrooms on logs, battle invasive species for space to grow native plants, create habitat for birds, experiment with hugelkultur and evolve into a garden coach with ecological design studio, One Nature, in 2018.

My methods

I use techniques that improve soil and environmental health without herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers.

I work with native plants and trees and will help you choose the best plants to create projects that are artful, lovely, and have a positive ecological impact while lowering your carbon footprint.