Cooperative Native Landscaping with SymbiOp

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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Home & Garden, Science, Nature, Leisure, Education, How To

5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we're joined by Matt from Symbiop to discuss what it looks like to develop cooperatives in the landscaping world. How do we showcase alternatives to the norm that draw folks in, and how can we also leverage that ownership to center native plants in our landscaping design choices? SymbiOp started off as a one-person landscaping business, operated by one of their co-founders, Nutmeg. On Oct 1st, 2021, they opened an ecological garden shop, using their plant expertise to make ecological gardening even more accessible to the greater community. Find them in Portland if you're in town, or otherwise check out their work on social media or at their website: www.symbiop.com To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at https://www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For PPA Writing Content, visit: www.agroecologies.org For PPA Restoration Content, visit: www.restorationagroecology.com For PPA Merch, visit: www.poorproles.com For PPA Native Plants, visit: www.nativenurseries.org To hear Tomorrow, Today, our sister podcast, visit: www.tomorrowtodaypodcast.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Port Porels Almanac. This is your host, Andy, and we're back to talk with Symbiop Garden Shop.
0:21.6	Now, these folks are a worker-owned native plant-focused landscaping gardening company
0:26.0	that work extensively on trying to make restoration work approachable for non-gardners and homeowners
0:32.2	through classes and consultations.
0:35.2	We chat a bit about how they came to be, native plants on the West Coast, which, as you
0:39.7	know, I don't know as well, and much, much more.
0:43.3	So please take a listen.
0:44.7	Let us know what you think.
0:49.9	I just have to give a shout out to Raymond.
0:52.2	He's one of our crew leads.
0:53.8	We were listening to your podcast the other day while we were on site,
0:56.5	and I came up that we were going to have a talk.
0:58.3	And he's like, can you please shout me out?
0:59.9	So this is me shouting out, Raymond.
1:01.4	Thanks for all your work, buddy.
1:02.9	You kick ass.
1:04.0	Yeah, they want to make sure everyone knows.
1:06.5	Matt, thanks for coming on.
1:07.7	Could you please introduce yourself for our audience? My name is Matt Gravel, and I work with Simbao garden shop and landscaping.
1:16.0	Awesome. Where are you guys located? Portland, Oregon. Awesome. So you guys are getting a lot of different
1:20.4	plants than what I get to see. I know we were talking a few minutes before we started recording,
1:25.0	and yeah, I was just like, I don't know any of the species you're
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