Workin' for a Livin'

Michele Chalice, Founder of Healthy Home Habitats, Environmental Landscape Educator/Coach/Designer Describe your work and what it entails. I am the founder of Healthy Home Habitats which offers healthier, eco-landscape stewardship for more beautiful & delightful ways to live with native plants and homegrown food. Discover HHH's entertaining, public programs, engaging hands-on workshops and informative on-site coaching for DIY Eco-Stewardship: https://healthyhomehabitats.com/ I also create native landscape and foodscaping designs with clients for joyfully increasing daily interactions with one's landscape. These designs result in vibrant, enjoyable and ecologically diverse gardens/landscapes that are also wildlife and pollinator habitats! https://healthyhomehabitats.as.me/MyLandscape This season I'm offering a monthly "Ask an Eco Gardener" workshops at our urban, eco-demonstration gardens in Keene. What is the most rewarding aspect of your job? Having my work be aligned with my values, reconnecting our lives and our children to a more diverse and playful version of nature in our home landscapes. Also reading the wonderful reviews of clients. What is the most challenging aspect of your job? Enticing people to discover that there are five, straightforward choices they can make to improve the diversity, health and enjoyment of their home landscapes and our communities; and that these choices will dramatically improve their life. What would you like people to know about you or your job? How happy I am seeing the smiling faces of children planting pea seeds with their family. How grateful I am to be living the so-called work that I value with my daughter and furbabies. What is your favorite thing about working in the Monadnock region? My favorite thing about working in the Monadnock region is the proximity of nature to our everyday lives. We don't have to travel to a national park to go forest bathing or hear streams rush by. What else? Folks can schedule a free, 20-minute, online consultation at https://healthyhomehabitats.as.me/freehomelandscapechecklist. They can watch HHH's DIY Eco-Gardening Tips on Facebook & Instagram, read the blog at www.healthyhomehabitats.com/blog/, monthly articles in the Woods & Gardens section of the Monadnock Shopper News and an upcoming eBook: "5 Choices for More Birds, BeeBerries, and Butterflies; Eco-Activism from Your Garden."