

GARDEN Craft
"I Grow What I Make"


FarmGirl Garden Design/Install
FarmGirl is owned and operated by Lauri
Newman-Waters in Asheville, NC. I am an experienced landscape and garden designer and installer, flower farmer, floral designer, mosaic artist and training herbalist. FarmGirl specializes in using WNC natives; designing edible landscapes, beautiful food and medicine producing gardens, water features, stonework and their installations.
I specialize in designing Homestead Gardens.
Ecological Design & Installations
Combing Nature, Science & Art... to design and install beautiful, healthy and useful gardens and landscapes. Giving humans, plants and wildlife an opportunity to have a "fruitful" relationship with their natural environment.
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Insist on Rights of Humanity & Nature to coexist.
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Recognize Interdependence.
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Respect Relationships between Spirit & Matter.
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Accept Responsibility for the Consequences of Design.
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Create Safe Objects of Long-Term Value.
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Eliminate the Concept of Waste.
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Rely on Natural Energy Flows.
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Understand the Limitations of Design.
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Seek Constant Improvement by the Sharing of Knowledge.
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Understand the Land.
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Think of Long Term Consequences of Actions.
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Use Low Energy & Biological Systems.
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Amend the Soil.
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Use Native Species.
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Plan for High Density & Low Impact.
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Be Diverse.
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Integrate Food Growing.
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Reforest/Preserve Forest.
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Recycle Waste.
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Stack Functions.
FarmGirl is enviormentally minded and low impact, therefore use NO chemicals EVER. We only use tractor/heavy machinery when really needed.