Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSense^TM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.

Through G3, Pamela promotes the principle that every landscape can be utilized to create soil security, water security, and resilient communities. She has written and published many “Watershed Approach to Landscape” guidebooks, which are utilized by various agencies as the foundation of their landscape standards.

Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela also has provided vision and leadership in executive roles with non-profit organizations such as Pacific Horticulture Society, Association of Professional Landscape Designers, and Surfrider Foundation. Drawing on her degree in Psychology and Organization Design from University of Pennsylvania and MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.

Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.

Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather’s urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother’s beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast life, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her farm-lust for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural communities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.