Built from
the ground up.

In 2011, I co-founded Eco-Works in Baton Rouge with a straightforward mission: bring sustainable, systems-thinking landscape design to South Louisiana. Not the trim-and-blow model — the real thing. Permaculture design, soil fertility, pollinator habitat, drip irrigation, rain catchment.

We were working in people's front yards and thinking about coastal erosion, habitat loss, and water quality at the same time. Those problems aren't separate. They never were.

In 2014 I partnered with Ken Rust — one of the most respected names in aquatic ecosystem design — and opened a waterscapes division. Small koi ponds. Backyard water gardens. 20-acre fisheries. Pond biology and lake management. Living wall systems, hydroponic installs, indoor and architectural fountains, and my beginnings in aquaponics. If water was involved, we were interested.

Alongside the commercial work we ran a DBA called We Grow — a charity that taught kids how to garden. We worked with private schools like Episcopal and special needs groups through BREC.

In 2017 I moved to Oregon with a new purpose. To learn new biomes, new farming systems, new methods. I worked on a rotational grazing cattle farm, a cricket ranch, varieties of orchards, poultry flocks, horse pasture, composting, fermentation.

I joined a bio-construction company building homes with earth and natural materials throughout the Willamette Valley. I founded an aquatic division inside a legacy landscaping company there — and that's also where the garden coaching model was born. Turns out people want expert guidance more than they want a crew.

Then I got recruited to Memphis.

At Ounce of Hope I built a 10,000 square foot vertically integrated aquaponic hemp farm and production facility from the ground up — fertilizer production, CPG development, community food programs. Through retail we gave the Mid-South it's first organic farm to table hemp operation. Through our charity we fed hundreds of people and produced thousands of pounds of food — donating our organic fish poop to local farms and gardeners across the region.

I taught local schools from Pure Academy to 4,000-level biology classes at Southern Illinois University, and traveled the country speaking on aquaponics, living soil, decentralized fertilizer production, and agricultural policy. We built what became a $3 million company anchored in regenerative agriculture, vertical integration, and community health.

I moved to Savannah to build something of my own.

Siltborne is the company I've been working toward for fifteen years — one that brings systems thinking, living water expertise, food production knowledge, and design sensibility to the people who actually want it. The DIY homeowner who deserves more than a generic install. The property manager whose maintenance crew can't do what a designer can. The curious person who wants a koi pond and has no idea where to start.

I'm a martial artist, a farmer, an entrepreneur, and someone who genuinely believes your outdoor space should be alive — not just maintained.