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Jessi Bloom


Jessi Bloom is a best-selling author, award-winning ecological landscape designer, and speaker and professional horticulturalist, and certified arborist She owns N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Services, based in the Pacific Northwest, which is known as an innovator and leader in the field of permaculture, sustainable landscape design, construction and land management. Her work has been recognized by government agencies and industry organizations and makes headlines in national media. She lives near Seattle with her two sons on their permaculture homestead, which is full of functional gardens and rescue animals. She... is committed to educating others and now spends much of her time teaching, consulting, and speaking nationwide in addition to designing landscapes.Her best-selling book Free-Range Chicken Gardens has been praised for being informative and inspiring, changing the way people integrate animals into their landscapes. Practical Permaculture (2015) became a bestseller in less than a month after its release. Recognition for her work includes awards from the Washington State Department of Ecology, the American Horticultural Society, Pacific Horticulture magazine, Sunset magazine, the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association, and the Washington Association of Landscape Professionals. She lives north of Seattle with her sons on her permaculture homestead.

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