Leader Details

Melissa Gonzalez Melissa Gonzalez, Owner of Earth Green Landscapes, specializes in creating pollinator habitats with healing properties for the human soul. She is a proud Nevada native and inspired by the unique desert flora and fauna for her creative work in her industry. She balances design with landscape management work for the success of the southwestern ecosystem. She believes in conscious landscape practices that sustains and flourishes the land and uplifts its inhabitants. When she discovered nature journaling before the pandemic, she realized her sketching techniques of landscapes and research could be taken to new ways of discoveries and learning possibilities when she looked closely at what the wildlife in her own garden and adventures of the outdoors were teaching her. Growing up Melissa saw her Grandmother pass down knowledge of plants to her mother. She also watched her father run his own landscape business for 25 years. All of the lessons learned from her family instilled an appreciation for the land around her.