Alicia Houk is an ecological gardener, native garden designer, and teacher — and the writer and photographer behind the blog A Wild Garden. She’s spent fourteen years teaching in the environmental science field, with recent years teaching ecological gardening and rewilding, and she’s been designing and installing pollinator and bird gardens in public spaces and private homes for over a decade.

In recent years she has also helped launch the Community Rewilding Project, a decentralized community nursery where she and past students grow 60+ native species together and sell them locally for 50¢ a plant (!), making lawn replacement, and large ecological gardens accessible.

With a master's degree in pollination ecology, she finds a ridiculous amount of joy in translating science into beautiful gardens where people can connect to wild plants and wildlife everyday.