After 5 years straight of custom home building, finishing my Red Seal, and a few years worth of inspection and maintenance rounds of the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s 9 public docks, it became time to mix things up.

I’ve been spending a lot of time in nature, both for work and leisure, started taking wild harvesting more seriously, purchased a property that desperately needed and received some ecological landscaping, been chainsaw milling windfall old growth cedar and fir, acquired some dive equipment and some freedive equipment, took my hunting course, and generally been out and about in nature, paying attention.

All this has accumulated in a reinvigoration of the original vision to design and build indoor-outdoor living spaces and landscapes that directly connect us with our ecosystem. For me, intimacy and connection with our immediate habitat is the greatest form of luxury.

For the summer, I’ll be deepening my local knowledge of all things natural and historical as I lead educational boat tours up to Princess Louisa Inlet and Chatterbox Falls with The Egmont Adventure Center, as well as harvesting some of my favourite genetics of wild foods and medicines for future landscapes.