Butterfly Effect Services

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Butterfly Effect landscaping and design is run by me, Mika

I’ve been landscaping and farming in the seattle area for 5 years, before that I was living in Portland, OR. I am excited about native and co-adaptive planting, regenerative practices, creating pathways and fostering resilient ecosystems. “Butterfly Effect” comes from a childhood fascination and long-standing belief that how we do one thing is how we do anything, and everything we do can have compounding effects.

I believe this is especially true for your garden — a place right outside your door you can turn to for moments of peace, aesthetic enjoyment or garden veggies. As part of a bigger picture, every residential parcel has the potential to be stewarded as a pocket of the natural world. We may not be able to amend the entire world, but one garden at a time we can support pollinators, plant rain water and build healthy soil and in so doing, foster harmony in our respective corners of it.

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Client Testimonials:

“Mika has come to work in our yard and gardens three times now. She helps prune, transplant, weed, mulch, advise, and haul stuff away. She is delightfully willing, able, and hard-working.”
⁃ Chris S.

“I hired Mika to help me excavate and build a gym/patio under my deck. Mika showed up ready to work, and created a lot more usable outdoor space for me. My basement has also stopped flooding. We moved many tons of soil, sand, and gravel across my yard and to/from trucks in the summer heat and laid a lot of pavers. If you’re looking for help with planning and executing your hardscaping dreams, with great attention to detail, and an enormous work ethic, call Mika!”
- Max W.

1. Planting Design

I am greatly inspired by our lush native landscapes here in the PNW full of dimension.

I aim to plant communities that function beneficially together as well as satisfy our aesthetic sensibilities. By mimicking nature, we can create year-round, low maintenance landscapes that reflect your personality as well as support a healthy ecosystem.

2. Garden Maintenance.

Are the brambles, weeds and soggy grasses masking the beauty and structure of your garden? Is there a scraggly branch you can’t stop looking at?

As a master pruner, as well as a reliable and efficient worker, I can give your garden the TLC it needs. Whether you are seeking seasonal or regular maintenance or a major cut back after a long period of letting the garden “go”, I’ve got you covered.

3. Hardscaping

I may not look it, but I am seasoned and experienced in hardscaping. I have built many a pathway and patio working with flagstone, brick, pavers and gravel. I am diligent with slopes and grading, conscious of drainage and a resourceful problem solver.

I am only taking small jobs as I am a small operation at the moment, but I love to build patios, pathways, herb spirals and riverstone walls.

4. food growing

As an eternal student, I will share what I've gathered so far and work with you to set up or lend my hands to a food producing garden growing vegetables, herbs, and fruit trees. Principles of regenerative practices go hand in hand with smart farming and thoughtful design. I'd like to help make it as easy as possible to grow food from your land, with your own hands, in relationship with the system as a whole. If you have a plan and are in need of an install I can do things like prepare garden beds, build and shape your garden, build compost bins, lay irrigation, create mason bee habitats, amend soil, or any other practical need.

5. something else?

do you have a roof that needs pressure washing? some junk removed? some painting that needs done? I have a truck and I’m handy, let’s talk :)