I started Fiddlehead Garden/Craft/Design LLC in 2022 after years of maintaining and building gardens, crafting custom wood furniture, and generally just trying to do meaningful work for good people. In short, I’ve always had an impulse to make art and to be in relation to nature–Fiddlehead has enabled me to do all that and more.

I’ve heard it said that architecture is the purest form of art that has to do with space, and music is the purest form of art that has to do with time. I like to think the work that Fiddlehead does sits right in the overlap of architecture and music, but without all the purity.

As we go from design, to installation, to stewardship, we witness a space come into its own, and as it does so, it starts to sing its own unique tune. What we do is create architectures for the music of life and of place, for the passage of the seasons, for the slow churn of years, architectures that encourage inhabitants and passers-by to stop and listen.

On the day to day, the reality of it is a lot messier and much less lofty–there’s hardly anything harmonious about a dump truck full of gravel rolling up at 8am in the pouring rain–but there’s also no shortage of gratitudes and delights visited upon us by neighbors and clients and pets and wildlife as we do our work, listening and playing along in the quiet corners of Seattle’s neighborhoods.

This is all to say, I don’t just see this as a landscaping business exactly, I see it as a means of subtly changing the way we see the world and how we move through it by small acts of observation and care.

From the beginning I’ve been assisted by the efforts of countless others–day laborers, friends, contractors, bosses, coworkers, clients, mentors, vendors, pets, pollinators, and finally in 2024, a few real employees.

We all look forward to chatting with anyone interested in what we do - let’s make the connection!