Chris Fehlhaber
FEATURED PROJECTS
An education and welcome garden for the Mainline School Night Association. Serving as an extension of the building, it welcomes students, serves as an outdoor classroom and provides opportunities for spontaneous interactions between students, staff, faculty and park visitors before and after classes and events.
Located in Harford Park, it has become a beloved garden for the people and animals who frequent the dog park.
Continuously growing since 2014, the first project to effectively pair gardens with the existing social infrastructure of the library and village hall in Elm Grove Park. Rich, dynamic, nourishing gardens envelope the building extending a welcoming approach beyond its walls. A diverse array of primarily native plants provides interest and habitat throughout the year.
Public interest has lead to public education programming and the addition of new gardens throughout the village park creating new baselines of beauty and ecology for the village.
Habitat
Stacks
Chanticleer
A carbon positive approach to meadow management. All organic material, save the occasional noxious gift from the birds, stays on site. People powered and cut using a scythe in spring all material is stacked into a pile inspired by Romanian hayricks and the habitat piles at Great Dixter.
Older stacks that have decomposed are directly sown into with species that have difficulty establishing in the highly competitive meadow, maximizing the controlled disturbance the stacks create.
Read more about them on Gardenista.
