Karin’s eye for elegance and enduring beauty has enabled her to create unique connections between natural and built environments, ranging from Lake Tahoe estates to valley vineyards, organic farms, and coastal retreats.
Karin Kaufman has over 20 years of sustainable landscape design experience. Her commitment to environmentally friendly design comes from both her great love of the outdoors and from early in her career, when she worked under one of the leaders of the sustainability movement in Southern California. Whether it be for public use or a private home, Karin strives to incorporate innovative storm-water management techniques, sustainable community design, and the use of renewable and recycled materials.
She uses sustainably sourced and durable materials to create personal environments tailored to each client’s unique lifestyle and setting. Motivated by her principle of using landscape to foster well-being, Karin weaves climate-appropriate plantings with art and architecture to promote deep respect for the natural environment and encourage seamless indoor/outdoor living.
Publications
Karin is the co-author of Living Wild: Gardening, Cooking, and Healing with Native Plants of the Sierra Nevada – the essential modern day guidebook to native plants in the Sierra Nevada.
It offers gardening advice for over 90 plant species, 70 gourmet food recipes which use local leaves, nuts, and berries, as well as plant medicine remedies for common health conditions. Filled with beautiful illustrations and color photographs, this book invites one in, offering a true sense of place and deepening one’s connection to the outdoors.
100% of LIVING WILD book profits support environmental and cultural conservation in the Sierra Nevada.
