our team
Sara Hartley
head gardener/owner
Fascinated by gardens, edible landscapes, art, local food movements, Sara has traveled from Ireland to Italy, Mexico and Costa Rica to explore different food cultures and terrain. After graduating at UNH with dual major in Business Administration/EcoGastronomy, Sara moved to the tropics and spent 12 years there. While in Costa Rica, she coordinated the farm internship program at biodynamic and organic farm Finca Luna Nueva, co-founded an organic health food store La Farmacia Organica (check it out in Nuevo Arenal!) and designed edible landscapes and permaculture gardens at Brave Earth. Native to New Hampshire, she is back living with her partner Sam and 12 year old daughter, enjoying her newly built cabin on a 1 acre homestead. She is looking forward to continue caring for green spaces, designing gorgeous landscapes and permaculture gardens within New Hampshire and Seacoast Maine. Also a visual artist, you can find her artwork at various shops on the Seacoast. Check out prints of her paintings at Auspicious Brew in Dover, NH and at Wild Peace.
Hope Hartley
Garden crew
Hope holds a board certification in traditional naturopathic practice, and certifications in holistic health, innate postpartum care, is certified as reiki master teacher and shamanic practitioner. In addition she has years of direct mentorship with elders in herbalism and energetics, culminating into a multifaceted supportive approach which considers all factors of health and each client's unique emotional, mental, and physical constitutions.
Her private office for her business Wild Peace Vibrational Medicine is located in Dover, NH. She also loves to get her hand dirty and supports Sundance Home and Garden when she gets a chance!
Samuel Ronda
Garden crew- Tree guy
Sam has spent the majority of his adult professional career in physical therapy. His love for nature and fascination for tree and tree preservation, recently called him to his new world of arborism and now works full time as a climbing arborist for Northeast Shade Tree. When he's available on the weekends, Sam supports Sundance Home and Gardens and loves to prune ornamental and fruit trees. Sam loves to make furniture from native hard woods.
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