About This Course
You may not be familiar with the word, Hugelkultur, but it is a European practice going back hundreds of years. It literally means ‘mound culture,’ a raised planting bed filled with wood, soil and organic materials. The many benefits of hugels include improved soil health, stormwater capture, carbon sequestration, and reducing green waste. Not to mention the opportunity to create beautiful thriving landscapes.
Join our experts at Studio Petrichor as they share why hugels have become such an important part of their landscape practice and what they learned along the way.
Learning Objectives
Material Includes
- video of presentation
- links to resources
Target Audience
- Landscape professionals
- General public
Curriculum
Video – Hugelkultur and Beyond
Video – Hugelkultur and Beyond37:07
Your Instructors
Shawn Maestretti
Oracle and Alchemist
(aka designer, plant daddy, licensed landscape architect and contractor, certified arborist, certified permaculture designer, biospheric caretaker, speaker, educator, and author-in-the-works)
Shawn has been co-creating exceptionally designed and artfully reimagined gardens in both California and Nevada since 2006.
A collaborative visionary and optimistic “possibilitarian”, he is a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corp, a Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate, and an activist in the movement to care for the environment.
Shawn has been presenting on Nature’s intelligence and humanity’s impact on climate change in his presentation series Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis, Reimagining Landscape and Lifestyle, and Co-creating as Interbeings (Landscape Architecture and The Death of the Ego)
His personal mission is to reconnect with the natural world, tread lightly on the land, nurture biodiversity, protect water, and bring people together.
Shawn’s legacy is his commitment to leaving a more beautiful world for his son and everyone else.
Leigh Adams
Water Witch and Spirit of Light
(aka consultant, co-presenter, educator and designer)
Leigh is an educator and eco-sensitive designer. She has been a groundbreaking, horticultural interpreter at the LA County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens for many years and has trained many county agencies in regenerative practices. She has conducted hundreds of hands-on, organically based workshops with local schools, private citizens and professional groups. Her love of collaboration and education infuse all aspects of her work, leaving participants with a profound sense of empowered accomplishments.
She has held multiple artist’s residencies at the LA County Arboretum, Metabolic Studios, Westland School and New Horizon School, to name a few. Leigh has received a Global Citizen Award from the United Nations, an Angel Award from the City of Los Angeles, the National Gardening Teacher of the Year 2020 and an Outstanding Citizen Award from the County of Los Angeles.
Leigh is the muse, inspiration, artist, water harvester, and wisdom-keeper of Studio Petrichor. Her ability to see her way into a landscape and name the intention of the work for each project contributes to the manifestation of enchanting and healing (for client and earth), nature-focused designs. She is instrumental to keeping the heart and intention in all of our work.
$10.00$25.00
Material Includes
- video of presentation
- links to resources
We imagine resilient cities that are water and soil secure, with Watershed Wise landscapes, designed, built and managed by confident property owners and certified professionals who understand the connection each yard has to healing the global environment.
