How It All Began

Kara

Kara started her life as a lover of the outdoors and wild spaces. All through her childhood she felt a responsibility to be a good steward to the earth. This generally meant picking up trash and encouraging her family to recycle. During her time in the US Navy, Kara’s shipmates would tease her about the amount of recycling she would constantly be shuttling from the ship to the local recycling facility in her great-grandparents old station wagon! After college she found a love of gardening. It was around this time when Kara started thinking about sustainable gardening practices and found the book The Landscaping Revolution: Garden With Mother Nature, Not Against Her by Andy and Sally Wasowski at the local library. This set her on the course to start gardening with native plants and creating habitat in her own backyard. For over 12 years she has been utilizing native plants in her gardenscapes, bringing nature home, and sharing her passion for native plants with everyone she meets.

Tim

Tim is Kara’s husband and the resident IT guy, both in his day job and with DRL. He can be found eradicating honeysuckle during his lunch breaks.

The Assistants

DRL is family owned and we all work together to be great small business owners and good land stewards. (Team Remove-All-The-Honeysuckle)