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    DANIEL BLAKE

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
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