About Us

We are a husband (Ryan) and wife (Skyla) team who love working outside together. Our combined experience in agriculture, gardening, ecology, botany, landscape design, construction, and natural building over the last decade creates a fertile foundation for Foothill Orchard Care.

Ryan focuses on orchard production, irrigation, landscape installation, and regenerative design. Before starting Foothill Orchard Care in 2021 he managed the Saratoga Heritage Orchard in Saratoga, CA as a site manager for Orchard Keepers Inc. He started managing the family walnut orchard Hummingbird Ridge Farm in Somerset, CA in 2017, which he continues today.

Skyla focuses on native plant restoration, propagation, seed saving, integrated pest management, and regenerative design. Before starting Foothill Orchard Care, she worked as a propagation lead and IPM manager at Central Coast Wilds native plant nursery in Santa Cruz, CA. She currenlty manages our home nursery in addition to co-managing Hummingbird Ridge Farm.

We believe in self reliance through ecosystem resilience and a localized food system. Eating locally grown food supports a food system that is able to cope with stress and disruption, improving food security in uncertain times. And what could be more local than growing food in your own backyard?!

A well designed edible landscape or orchard feeds your family, is aesthetically beautiful, and supports the local ecosystem. We believe that land stewardship applies to both large landscapes and small plots. If you have access to land, you have the potential to restore and steward that land, and we find joy in helping your efforts succeed!

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