About Michael Veracka
Michael Veracka’s design practice focuses on sustainable design, edible landscaping and the adaptive reuse of urban spaces. He is adept at creating site-specific designs for spaces of all sorts and contexts.
Michael’s experience as a project manager, plant procurement buyer, horticultural consultant in the use and selection of superior woody and herbaceous plant varieties – always grounded in sustainable practices – can assist you in selecting the very best plants that save you time and money, and allow you to create style, and match style to architecture and site.
At the root of his work is a reverence for nature and a respect for the natural environment. Trained as a landscape architect – earning a master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design – Michael’s landscape philosophy brings together his educational training at Providence College, the New Alchemy Institute (East Falmouth, MA) the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art and Historical Heritage (Kyoto, Japan) and practical experience as an organic grower and market gardener, environmentalist, stone artisan, urban garden designer, certified arborist and horticulturist. He has also worked as a landscape designer and planner for private landscape architecture firms and city and state government agencies... | Continue reading more about Michael
