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    DANIEL BLAKE

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QUALIFICATIONS:

• Over 50 years of experience in the horticulture business 
• Owner-operator of comprehensive landscape business 
• Owner - Aquatic systems, drip irrigation www.dripstakes.com
• Expert knowledge of plants, soil, growing and pruning techniques, sustainable agriculture 
• NPR acknowledgement of World Record Holder for "teaching more people how to get more food to their tables faster than anyone on earth"
• Has taught "double digging method" to grow food with people all over the world.
• Was filmed for www.whydoubledig.com
• Inventor of patented rotating fulcrum www.mulepod.com and trademark on a Sustainable Miniature Greenhouse 

EXPERIENCE:
1987-Present- LIVING SOILS INC.
Owner-Operator

• Creates landscape designs for clients
• Assists clients with selection of plants for their locality, exposure aspect, soil, and landscape desire
• Performs all aspects of garden installation including landscaping, irrigation and plant placement
• Experience in plant maintenance techniques including, pruning diagnostic and corrective measures and garden succession 
• Brokers certified organic compost

1999-2000 EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL Prescott, AZ

• Lead high school garden project for City of Prescott
• ​Transformed a dumpsite for the Prescott Unified School District into a functional garden

1999 YAKASHBA - A Frank Lloyd Wright inspired subdivision in Prescott,AZ

• Design/Installation Project
• ​5 Years in a row
• 7 Month long projects
• Received Award in Belgium for design/install in Prescott, AZ.

1998-1999 AGRICULTURE RELIEF - HONDURAS, C.A.

• Assessed damage done by Hurricane Mitch
• ​Taught and demonstrated Sustainable Agriculture
• Spent 3.5 months in the mountains of the Lake Yejoa Region of Honduras

1996 PROGRESSO VOCATIONAL & HEALTH INSTITUTION - CORTEZ, BELIZE

• Progresso Village, Orange-Walktown, Cortez, Belize                        
• Three month training course to prepare for 3rd World Service
• Tropical Agriculture using sustainable methods and grafting                   
• Built rainwater tanks, solar cookers and dryers, hydraulic rams