Our team
The specialists behind every yard
Tell us what you need
Pick the situation closest to yours and we'll say who shows up.
My yard is overgrown and I got a city notice
Crew day with a dump run, plus repairs if the fence or steps failed too.
- Marcus Adeyemi · Landscaper
- Tomáš Novák · General contractor
I want to start a garden but I've never grown anything
Kitchen-table plan, free seeds, and a follow-up visit six weeks later.
- Rosa Inés Delgado · Master gardener
- Nathan Whitefeather · Horticulturist & native plant specialist
I can't kneel, bend, or stand for long
Seated-height raised beds, smooth paths, and no-kneel tools.
- Priya Raman · Accessibility & inclusive design lead
- Tomáš Novák · General contractor
- Leilani Kahale · Landscape designer
I'm a veteran and I need help with my outdoor space
Veteran-to-veteran intake, then a crew and an adaptive layout.
- Danielle Reyes · Veterans outreach coordinator (Army veteran)
- Marcus Adeyemi · Landscaper
- Priya Raman · Accessibility & inclusive design lead
I'm helping an older parent or neighbor
We call them directly, and loop in aging-in-place services if needed.
- Grace Liu · Senior services outreach coordinator
- Marcus Adeyemi · Landscaper
- Rosa Inés Delgado · Master gardener
I want a full yard makeover plan
Design drawing, plant list, and a build sequence you can do in stages.
- Leilani Kahale · Landscape designer
- Yuki Tanaka · Design specialist
- Tomáš Novák · General contractor
Meet the whole team
Search by name, skill, or language spoken.
Showing 13 of 13 specialists
Amara Okonkwo
she/her
Lead web developer
Builds and re-builds the site with neighbors in the room. Amara runs monthly 'edit nights' where community members request changes out loud and watch them ship.
- Background
- Nigerian American
- Languages
- English, Igbo
- Serves
- Riverbend
- Donated time
- 6 hrs/week · 12 yrs experience
Helps with: Site edits & re-edits · Map features · Form accessibility
- Full-stack engineer
- WCAG 2.2 practitioner
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Diego Marroquín
he/him
Front-end developer & translator
Keeps every page readable on an old phone with one bar of signal, and makes sure Spanish speakers get the same site, not a thinner version of it.
- Background
- Guatemalan American
- Languages
- Spanish, English, K'iche'
- Serves
- Westside
- Donated time
- 4 hrs/week · 7 yrs experience
Helps with: Spanish-language pages · Mobile fixes · Plain-language rewrites
- React & TypeScript
- Bilingual content lead
- Senior requests
Yuki Tanaka
they/them
Design specialist
Draws the seed-bag illustrations and hand-lettered signs you see around the site and at every build day. Believes bright color is an accessibility tool, not decoration.
- Background
- Japanese American
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Serves
- Hillcrest
- Donated time
- 5 hrs/week · 14 yrs experience
Helps with: Illustrations · Signage & yard signs · Printed flyers
- Illustration & brand systems
- Seed-packet art
- Senior requests
Priya Raman
she/her
Accessibility & inclusive design lead
Reviews both the website and the garden beds. Priya designs seated-height planters and no-kneel tool kits for neighbors with limited mobility.
- Background
- Indian American
- Languages
- English, Tamil, Hindi
- Serves
- Northgate
- Donated time
- 5 hrs/week · 9 yrs experience
Helps with: Raised beds for wheelchairs · Screen-reader review · Low-vision contrast checks
- CPACC certified
- Occupational therapy background
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Keisha Brooks
she/her
Social media specialist
Turns build days into short captioned videos that reach the people who never fill out a form. Most of our senior yard resets started as a comment on one of her posts.
- Background
- Black American
- Languages
- English, ASL (conversational)
- Serves
- Southbank
- Donated time
- 6 hrs/week · 8 yrs experience
Helps with: Finding neighbors who need help · Captioned reels · Volunteer callouts
- Community storytelling
- Video captioning
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Rosa Inés Delgado
she/her
Master gardener
Has started more first-time gardens than anyone on the team. Rosa will sit at your kitchen table and sketch a four-bed plan on the back of an envelope.
- Background
- Mexican American
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Serves
- Riverbend
- Donated time
- 8 hrs/week · 22 yrs experience
Helps with: Starting a first garden · Container gardens · Seed libraries
- Certified Master Gardener
- Seed saving instructor
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Nathan Whitefeather
he/him
Horticulturist & native plant specialist
Teaches which plants already belong here, and how traditional food and medicine plants fit into a small city yard. Leads our foraging education walks.
- Background
- Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
- Languages
- English, Anishinaabemowin
- Serves
- Lakeside
- Donated time
- 5 hrs/week · 16 yrs experience
Helps with: Soil health · Native & pollinator plantings · Plant diagnosis
- B.S. Horticulture
- Native plant restoration
- Veteran requests
Marcus Adeyemi
he/him
Landscaper, senior yard-reset crew lead
Third-generation landscaper who believes nobody should lose their home over a yard citation. Marcus brings the crew, the trailer, and the dump run.
- Background
- Nigerian American
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
- Serves
- Riverbend, Westside, Hillcrest
- Donated time
- 2 Saturdays/month · 18 yrs experience
Helps with: Overgrown yard resets · Code-violation cleanups · Tree & limb safety
- Licensed
- Insured
- Certified arborist
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Leilani Kahale
she/her
Landscape designer
Draws the makeover plan before the crew arrives, so a donated Saturday turns into a yard that still works five years later.
- Background
- Native Hawaiian
- Languages
- English, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
- Serves
- Hillcrest
- Donated time
- 4 hrs/week · 10 yrs experience
Helps with: Yard makeover plans · Low-water designs · Shade & seating
- Landscape design
- Rainwater & irrigation
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Tomáš Novák
he/him
General contractor
Handles the parts of a yard makeover that need permits and real lumber: ramps, gates, retaining walls, and paths that a walker can cross.
- Background
- Czech American
- Languages
- English, Czech
- Serves
- Northgate
- Donated time
- 1 Saturday/month · 25 yrs experience
Helps with: Ramps & safe steps · Fence & gate repair · Raised bed carpentry
- Licensed general contractor
- Insured & bonded
- ADA ramp builds
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Danielle Reyes
she/her
Veterans outreach coordinator (Army veteran)
Served eight years, then came home to a yard she couldn't manage. Danielle now handles every veteran request personally and connects families to VA and VSO programs.
- Background
- Puerto Rican American
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Serves
- Countywide
- Donated time
- 10 hrs/week · 6 yrs experience
Helps with: Veteran intake · VA & VSO referrals · Adaptive garden setups
- U.S. Army veteran
- Peer support certified
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Grace Liu
she/her
Senior services outreach coordinator
Answers the phone when an older neighbor calls, then matches them with the right specialist and the right agency the same week. No forms required.
- Background
- Chinese American
- Languages
- Mandarin, Cantonese, English
- Serves
- Countywide
- Donated time
- 10 hrs/week · 13 yrs experience
Helps with: Elder intake calls · Aging-in-place referrals · Caregiver support
- Licensed social worker
- Area Agency on Aging liaison
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Sofia Benhamou
she/her
Illustration director & visual designer
Draws the hand-inked plants and creatures across the site, then tunes every headline and paragraph until it reads cleanly against the paper background — big ink-black titles, green jot-down notes, and bold body type older eyes can read from a distance.
- Background
- Moroccan French American
- Languages
- French, Arabic, English
- Serves
- Riverbend
- Donated time
- 8 hrs/week · 11 yrs experience
Helps with: Seed-packet illustration style · Type contrast & legibility · Page-to-page visual consistency
- Botanical illustrator
- Type & contrast specialist (WCAG AA/AAA)
- Veteran requests
- Senior requests
Veterans, disabled, and elderly neighbors
If planting or clearing an outdoor space isn't possible for you, we send people. Our coordinators handle the call and the paperwork.
Veteran & disability outreach
Danielle Reyes, an Army veteran, takes every veteran and disability request personally: a phone call first, then a crew, an adaptive garden layout, and referrals to VA and veteran service organizations.
Trusted connections
- VA Caregiver Support Program(opens in a new tab)
Support, respite, and home help for veterans and the family caring for them.
- Farmer Veteran Coalition(opens in a new tab)
Grants, training, and mentors for veterans growing food.
- Team Rubicon(opens in a new tab)
Veteran-led volunteer crews for property cleanup and disaster recovery.
- Veterans Crisis Line — dial 988, then press 1(opens in a new tab)
24/7 confidential support. Call, text 838255, or chat online.
Help for elderly neighbors
Grace Liu, a licensed social worker, answers when an older neighbor or their family calls. She matches them to a specialist within the week and connects them to local aging services — no forms required.
Trusted connections
- Eldercare Locator (1-800-677-1116)(opens in a new tab)
Federal directory that finds local aging services by ZIP code.
- Area Agencies on Aging (USAging)(opens in a new tab)
Your nearest agency for home help, meals, and aging-in-place programs.
- Meals on Wheels America(opens in a new tab)
Home-delivered meals and friendly check-ins for older neighbors.
- AmeriCorps Seniors(opens in a new tab)
Volunteer programs by and for adults 55+, including garden companions.
Are you one of these professionals?
We're always adding gardeners, horticulturists, landscapers, contractors, designers, translators, and outreach workers — especially ones who reflect the neighborhoods we serve.
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