About Sacred Garden Designs
Based in Santa Monica and La Crescenta, California, Sacred Garden Designs, Inc. is a certified Minority/Women Business Enterprise (MBE/WBE) with a crew of key seasoned industry professionals, providing a broad range of Landscape Architectural Services including landscape design, tree planting, hardscape installation and maintenance for residential customers and land development, urban renewal design and planning, urban agricultural planning, park master planning and streetscape improvements for city and county clients. We are skilled in Project Management; having coordinated small and large projects with various community and government stakeholders throughout the USA, Canada and the Caribbean, where we encourage the design and installation of cost effective and environmentally beneficial sustainable land developments.
About The Founder
Sacred Garden Designs, Inc. was founded by Denise Buchanan who is a Sustainable Landscape Architectural Design Consultant with a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture and a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology. Her unique inter-disciplinary approach blends her knowledge of design and human behavior by designing environments which are not only aesthetically pleasing but which are environmentally responsible and healing to the human psyche.
For over 25 years, Denise Buchanan has been committed to minimizing the impact of drought, climate change, food insecurity, growing populations and deforestation in urban landscapes while maximizing the creation of more useful and livable urban environments centered around tree planting, sustainable land management and community economic viability especially in the under-served areas of society.
Denise gained a Ph.D. and lectured at the University of Southern California and she has also been instrumental in providing leadership to community-based organizations, government departments and government stakeholders on various national parks, highway, tourism, urban renewal and master planning projects throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.
Denise’s wide-ranging interests include urban forests for climate modification, environmental justice, sustainable management of land and water resources, responsible mining, urban farming, food security, agricultural productivity and sustainability in marginal environments, desalination of sea water for agricultural crops, urban revitalization, sustainable rural development and cultural and psychological factors that influence human social behavior in public spaces. Her work has been featured on the Etherworks Production “Sold on Green”, HGTV, on national television and in various industry publications.
Denise is an Award Winning International Public Speaker and Author and has been called on to be an inspirational guest speaker at conferences and functions for Wells Fargo Bank and Universal Studios and at events in Warsaw, Poland; Berlin, Germany; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; Lima, Peru; The Democratic Republic of the Congo; London; Uganda; Vatican City, Italy and the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Denise is a Member of the American Association of Landscape Architects, the American Horticultural Therapy Association, the International Association of Women and The Global Mentorship Initiative and she is the only Jamaican Female Licensed Landscape Contractor in California.
“Intentionally designing and installing sustainable landscape architectural projects allows us to participate in improving the quality of human life while developing innovative ways to enhance the Earth’s vitality and diversity. The possibilities are endless. I see my role as expanding and blending the boundaries of sustainable landscape design and art, where cultivating a world that works for everyone becomes the norm.“
Denise Buchanan (Email: sacredgardens27@gmail.com)
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