karin ursula
Karin was lucky to grow up in North Riverdale across from Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx seeing Pin Oak, Black Locust and Sycamore trees from her childhood apartment windows.
After a minor career in the music industry, she obtained an M.S. in Landscape Design from Columbia University and embarked on a successful fourteen-year journey as an ecological landscape designer. She's known for cultivating biodiverse gardens in the Catskill Mountains alongside her beloved dogs Bella, Ollie, Arthur, and Suzie.
One day, she sat underneath an American Ash tree reading Call of the Trees and cried the whole way through. That day, Ash Tree, Yellow Dock, and Bull Thistle called Karin to study with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower at Earth School in Delaware County, NY.
Further investigation into books by Penobscot Nation author Sherri Mitchell, Esq., artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, healer and leading thinker Martin Prechtel, and ecophiloshoper Derrick Jensen continues to shape and form Karin’s relationship with plants, winged, four-footed and furry creatures and Mother Earth.
Currently identifying as a reformed landscape designer, Karin has ceased working on design projects that cause violent ecological destruction and is seeking a path where she may work with plants in subtle, healing ways.
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