A young girl with blonde hair standing on a garden path, smiling, surrounded by flowers and greenery, with a metal fence in the background.
A couple in wedding attire standing on a black sand beach, holding a child, with large green cliffs and ocean waves in the background, traditional leis around their necks.

MEMA

My hands have been in the soil planting seeds for as long as I can remember. When my husband and I started a family in 2024, my purpose became crystal clear: I am here to bring people back to the garden.

My compulsion for building gardens is rooted in the lifestyle, where the sun warms our skin and our feet sink into the earth, gardening as a lifestyle opens a life rich in connection, vitality, and continual transformation.

With 17 years of experience in the biological sciences and hands-on work across diverse ecosystems, I’ve learned to read plants and their needs in various climates. Along the way I’ve gathered a plethora of techniques and subtle rituals that help gardeners—and their gardens—flourish.

Expirence

A woman sitting on a red tractor outdoors, smiling, wearing a large hat and casual clothes during sunset.
A well-maintained backyard garden with various rows of leafy green plants, some covered with protective mesh, and a dirt pathway in the center. There are garden tools and structures in the background.

7 years MRAZ family farm, Oceanside, CA

a subtopical coffe and avocado paradise located in my hometown of San Diego,on this farm I seasonally pruned 15 acres of fruit trees with a hand saw and a ladder, and after a few years i started building and maintaining year rounf edible food gardens that fed everyone on the farm!

A woman on a ladder picking peaches from a tree.
A woman in a white dress smiling at a farmers market standing next to a display of large watermelons in a cardboard box. Behind her, there are various fruits including melons, grapes, and cardboard boxes with produce. Market tents and other vendors are visible in the background.

6 years Trident Lightning Farms, Humboldt, CA

a 1oo acre certified organic fruit farm in northern california. a land dripping with all the temperate fruit you could imagine, I drove tractors disking fields, sold fruit at the farmers markets and pulled hundreds of thousands of weeds along the way.

A woman standing among blooming flowers in a garden during sunset, holding a small bouquet of flowers and smiling.
A vibrant garden with tall sunflowers, marigolds, and other colorful flowers under a partly cloudy sky, overlooking a landscape with hills, trees, and agricultural fields.

Moro Hills Botanical Library

on the top of an ocean view hill is a private property owned by a dear friend who opened their land to crating a botanical library of rare and delicous edible plants that were collected along my global botanical studies. this one acres plot was transformed from a weedy dead avocado orchard into a bountiful and beautiful food forest over flowing with flowers and scrumptious berries.

Three baskets filled with fresh vegetables and fruits placed on the ground in a garden with green vines, tall palm trees, and blue sky in the background.
Bird's eye view of a backyard with dirt planting beds, a covered patio with outdoor furniture, and a fenced perimeter with greenery.

Mar Vista Urban Homestead

In two phases I worked with homeowners to transform 1/2 of their one acre property into a diverse food forest of rare edible delicacies and in phase two after building their new house, i designed and installed a farm style line up of ample garden beds for the client who “wants to grow all their own food” I brought in mountains of a proprietary soil blend that transformed this blank slate into a thriving and abundantly producing garden in a matter of a few months!

Hawaiian flower garden

While on vacation on the slopes on Mauna Kea where the soil is thick and rich, I single handedly cleared a wild grassy plot and created an expansive flower garden for a client. I utilized resources available on the land like animal manure and wood chips to fertilize and accentuate the walking paths. The space being right out the clients front door elevated the whole property, and offered plenty of space to grow.

before
A woman standing in a banana plantation holding a large jackfruit in her right hand and a bunch of green bananas in her left hand.
A woman picking tomatoes in a garden with a rustic wooden trellis structure.

Hawaiian Food Forest

In my last years of undergrad at the University of Hawaii Hilo I worked on my most radical project yet. Building soil and growing vegetables on pure lava rock with only what was available to me on the land was an incredible learning experience. in 1.5 years I learned what it took to chop down the jungle and using accelerated composting techniques, transform that material into fertile productive soil.

A person holding three ears of corn in a garden surrounded by green plants, corn stalks, and a tree, with mountains and a sunset sky in the background.
Tables stacked with various fresh vegetables and fruits including watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons.

Fallbrook Market Garden

For these clients, I shaped and sculpted a neglected avocado orchard on a hillside into a thriving and bountiful market garden. In the alchemy of beautifully sandy soil and local organic manure, this 1 acre high diversity “mini farm” took off in a matter of 120 days and in no time we were selling produce to the prestigious Specialty Produce of San Diego..

A garden with raised wooden planters filled with various vegetables and flowers, bordered by a wooden fence under cloudy skies.

Stylish Raised Bed Garden

Homeowners were looking for a stylish and neat approach to adding face value to their front yard garden, so we built some custom redwood boxes and added a few corregated steel raised beds as an accent. With hidden drip irrigation, their previously overgrown yard was transformed into a edible gardeners paradise!

Backyard garden with multiple wooden raised beds filled with various plants and flowers, surrounded by a black wooden fence and green trees in the background.
A young woman with a wide-brimmed hat and long braided hair working in a garden with an elderly woman in a wheelchair. They are constructing wooden garden beds outdoors, surrounded by trees and a wooden fence.

Easy access Garden

My clients for this project were very interested in accessibility for their elder years in the garden, so we built extra tall garden beds with a shelf around the rim for sitting on, and additionally surrounded the garden with wheelchair accessible turf.