This page showcases some of our past projects that demonstrate thoughtful design co-working with natural systems — turning landscapes into living and vibrant spaces.
Urban Food Forest Installation – Atlanta, GA (2020-2021)
Front Yard Biodiversity and Food Production Project
This installation focused on establishing a diverse, resilient front-yard food forest using berm-and-swale earthworks to improve water retention and soil health. The planting design incorporated more than ten varieties of fruit trees and shrubs, along with culinary herbs and perennial medicinal plants and integrates biodiversity, soil regeneration, and ongoing food production.
This was a home garden project where focus was on high-yield food production inspired by permaculture principles and practices.
Natural Stone Herb Spiral — South Carolina (2021)
This project features a hand-built herb spiral dry stacked from natural stone found on a property in upstate South Carolina. This herb spiral was designed to maximize growing space in a compact footprint by utilizing horizontal and vertical growing. The spiral form creates a range of microclimates that support a diverse selection of culinary and medicinal herbs and was strategically built on top of a culvert to observe the affects of water flow beneath.
Fox Gardens – Talladega, Alabama (2022-2025)
In 2022, Skyla co-developed Fox Gardens — an off-grid homestead in rural Alabama built on land that was previously stripped by logging companies and intermittently used as an informal landfill by local neighbors. Starting with depleted soil and a monoculture of pine trees, this project over the course of a few years became a livable & regenerative off-grid homestead that included natural buildings, tiny houses, rainwater harvesting systems, compost systems, raising and rotating of livestock animals, fruit trees & shrubs, and annual garden beds. This project was low budget with keeping in goal that almost everything that cannot be directly returned to earth can be reused in ways that it may not have originally been meant for. This was essentially a project and experiment in self-sufficiency, in which required creativity, observation, and passion for the process in order to gain as much possible knowledge of what a full circle natural system looks like in everyday practice.
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