Garden Design and Consulting with a Focus on Native Plants
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Edible landscapes
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Bird and Pollinator Gardens
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Permaculture
Our Mission
We design outdoor spaces that provide abundantly for human needs while contributing to the biodiversity, ecological health, and unique beauty of the Great Lakes region.
We apply our expertise in food gardening, native plants, and local ecology to select the plants and other design elements that are best suited to your unique goals and site. We strive for simple solutions with big impacts.
With our designs, even a small space can grow nutritious food, attract and support birds and beneficial insects, reduce property maintenance and inputs, add beauty and livable outdoor space, foster community, and support our forests and waters all at once.
Services
All services include a detailed intake interview and site assessment. Our design and consulting offerings include but are not limited to native plant habitat analysis, plant lists, and planting recommendations, edible landscapes, Permaculture/urban homesteading, alternative lawn strategies, deer resistant gardening, and surveys for invasives or edible/useful plants. Small properties and projects welcome, as well as public projects. Please call for quotes.
We would love to talk about your project!
Set up a consult today.
PO Box 43
Marquette, MI 49855
Our full site will be up and running in June 2025, please check back soon!
About us
Maddie is the founder of Great Lakes Ecoscapes. She draws inspiration and expertise from decades of observing and managing ecosystems, in diverse roles from professional organic market farmer to wildland firefighter with the US Forest Service. She holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Wild Abundance in Asheville, NC and has continued her Permaculture education with Midwest Permaculture. She is an avid forager and loves to share knowledge about our local medicinal and edible plants and incorporate them into her designs. She holds a degree in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia. Currently she works at UP Natives nursery which fuels her obsession with our beautiful and valuable native plants and ecosystems.
