Renee Wilkinson Joins the Learning Landscapes Team

We are pleased for many reasons that creative children’s outdoor spaces are becoming popular. Thanks for continuing to contact us about your amazing projects! In response to this or team is growing. We are pleased to add Renee Wilkinson to our team. She is creative, intelligent, and fun. We feel lucky to have the chance to work with her.

 

Renee Wilkinson designs beautiful outdoor spaces that provide refuge, recreation and opportunities to connect with nature. Her background includes a masters degree in landscape architecture, a bachelors degree in journalism, over a decade of experience in strategic marketing, three years of professional experience as a landscape designer and a lifelong obsession with plants.

“As a sixth generation Oregon homesteader, I have a fascination with watching things grow and getting my hands dirty.”

 

Wilkinson is also a garden writer with credits including magazine articles in national publications, guest blog posts and a published book titled Modern Homestead. In 2007, she launched the website HipChickDigs that focuses on edible landscape design and sustainable living. Book readings, workshops and lectures have taken her across the country.

 

She lives on a tenth of an acre city lot in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, daughter, two cats and seven chickens.