Karen

Karen has been a site technician with the Backyard Habitat Certification Program since 2014.  She has also worked as a freelance landscape designer, working with residential clients and Backyard participants to create habitat friendly gardens.  She created the Urban Habitat Garden design templates featured on the Backyard Habitat Resource page.  She has worked at several retail nurseries and spent a summer maintaining a 70 acre estate garden near Forest Park.  She earned her landscape design certificate from Portland Community College and studied Horticulture at Clackamas Community College. Karen’s most valuable experience has come from working in her own Portland gardens for over 30 years. In her free time Karen enjoys hiking, wildflower ID, enjoying a good beer, and hanging out with her partner and their two sweet cats.