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Staff Highlights and Bios
Kara Crissey
Kara Crissey is a landscape and garden designer who opened
Good Earth Gardeners in 2003.
Kara studied landscape design at the University of Maryland, the Community College of Baltimore County and at Jardin d'Art et D'Essais in Normandy, France.
Applying a thorough knowledge of horticulture to a blended aesthetic of modern and traditional, she creates gardens and landscapes that integrate human communities with the natural world. Her approach to planting design is deliberately layered gardens. Carefully planned intricate compositions serve year-round drama while allowing for ecologically intelligent maintenance practices.
Michael Barry
Mike has been the Operations Manager for Good Earth Gardeners since early 2022.
Mike brings a dynamic and analytical mindset to the team at Good Earth, putting practices and systems in place that enable the team's creative potentials to become reality. His twenty years of Operations and Management experience across multiple industries allows him to draw on a variety of skill sets to help the business
thrive and grow.
Hannah Megill
Hannah has had a passion for gardening since she was a little girl. Growing up around her grandmother's garden, an award-winning ecological wildlife habitat, she has learned to appreciate and cultivate native gardens. In her 2 years at Good Earth Gardeners, she has been able to fully express her love for gardening around Anne Arundel County. Hannah is a Level 1 certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional, and is currently attending the Community College of Baltimore County for a Landscape Design certification. She enjoys installing rain gardens and maintaining native landscapes, but every aspect of gardening is a true joy for her. She is grateful to spend every work day surrounded by knowledgeable and reliable gardeners, and is always looking for new things to learn about gardening.
In her free time, Hannah loves tending to her vegetable farm, producing music, and crocheting blankets. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Production from the renowned Berklee College of Music.
Ella Greer
With a deep appreciation of both art and nature, Ella understands how to develop a garden from its beginning to completion. Working toward a career in landscape design and environmental stewardship, she continues to learn about plant culture from native perennials to trees . With Ella's artistic flair and landscape knowledge, each garden she nurtures is left well tended and more beautiful.
Favorite plant: Aclepsias Incarnata, Swamp Milkweed (Host plant for the Monarch butterfly)
