Our team is a small interdisciplinary team of artists, applied ecologists, botanists, scientists, and planners capable of stewarding client projects from initial visioning and research through construction and into long-term land stewardship.
Bryan Quinn, Principal and Founder
Bryan Quinn is a father, husband, son, brother and compassionate friend to many people, plants and animals. Bryan is a passionate and active person. He likes to spend his free time with his family, tend to his garden, travel in tropical places, explore the backcountry, practice yoga, meditate, read, ride his bike, and swim long distances in open water. He is a vegan, herbalist, and spiritual seeker. Bryan is also an active community member who donates his own professional expertise and his business’s resources to locally important issues. In his work, he is an accomplished artist and applied ecologist who has realized his vision through entrepreneurship in professional ecology, the plant nursery industry, and collaborative design. He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Malawi, 2002-2004) and holds a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (2007). Bryan founded One Nature in 2004 and has guided it from a one person, part-time studio to what it has become today.
Jeff Binkley, Project Manager
Jeff is a former attorney with a passionate interest in land restoration and biodiversity preservation. Born in rural Tennessee, Jeff has held a life-long belief in the sanctity of nature and wild spaces. In his free time, Jeff is an avid trail runner, hiker, cook, and gardener.
Sergei Krasikov, Construction Project Manager
Sergei is a socially minded doer with a keen interest in landscaping, communal space design and utilizing best land stewardship practices to combat climate change. Combining experience in construction, landscaping, creative storytelling, project managing complex film production and dedication to leave our planet livable for generations to come.
Jesse Stacken, Garden Coach
Jesse believes that with just a little effort on our part, we can turn our neighborhoods from places of consumption to places of production. His long-held interest in gardening, personal and societal wellness, and food sovereignty led him to complete the Visionary Permaculture Design Certificate course at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappinger, NY in 2018. His personal garden features a chicken-driven composting system, more 600 gallons of rain water collection, more than 15 types of fruit, several perennial vegetables, over a dozen medicinal herbs, dozens of pollinator plants, and extensive annual vegetables all working together in a resilient, cooperative system that requires less and less outside inputs as it matures.
Steven Danzer, PhD, PWS, Wetland Ecologist
Steven has over twenty five years’ experience in the fields of Wetland and Soil Science, Ecology, and Natural Resource Evaluation. He has always been intrigued by the simple but also perplexing question about whether the landscape before him is healthy or not. This question has propelled him throughout a professional career which has spanned the deserts and mountains of Arizona and the American Southwest to the rocky hills, wetlands, and coastal plains of the East Coast and New England. Steven is also principal of Steven Danzer, PhD and Associates LLC in Stamford, CT.
Liza Friedman, Seasonal Nursery Associate
Liza is currently enrolled in the Landscape Design program at the New York Botanical Garden, and has a degree in cinematography from Ithaca College. She has always been driven by a love of all things plants, and a desire to create lush and magical spaces with native plants. When she isn’t at One Nature, she is most likely camping, on a solo road trip, or crocheting. She also speaks fluent Russian.
Jodie Schoelkopf, Plant Technician
Jodie is from the Hudson Valley, but her interest in plants was seeded on the Southern Oregon coast. Her curiosity led her to SUNY ESF, where her undergraduate research correlated the physical properties of Adirondack mosses with their traditional uses by Indigenous peoples. Prior to One Nature she worked on small organic produce farms, and she completed a certification course in Botanical Medicine in 2021.
Leah Garrard, Ecological Construction and Stewardship technician
With over a decade of organic vegetable and flower farming experience and a BS in Sociology, Leah brings a deep love and respect for working with the land and understanding its important role in our society. She is fascinated with the social and environmental transformative power of plants and excited to be a part of the regenerative land stewardship that One Nature is fostering locally. When she isn’t spending time outside with plants, she enjoys quilting, baking, relaxing with her partner and playing fetch with their pup.
Blair Patterson, Principal
Blair Patterson got her professional start in sculpture, metalwork and installation art. She has a knack for thinking in both two and three dimensions, and envisioning what magic decades of growth and change could reveal. She has a passion for land and earth artistry, plants, habitats, ecology, herbalism, and generally being outdoors. Earth based art has been her medium for the past eight years, using earth, plants, wood, stone, water, time, to create ever changing and beautiful landscapes that once released have a mind of their own. In her free time, she gardens, hikes, bikes, explores, makes, and learns new skills.
John Moss, Project Manager
A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, John leads the construction and stewardship crews towards building stunning wild landscapes. Since joining One Nature over 4 years ago, John’s careful craftsmanship and love of the land has been evident in every project he pilots.