Julia grew up in Connecticut. She studied Politics at Bates College and then moved to New York City to pursue an interest in climate policy. She was unexpectedly pulled into the world of garden education at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she taught gardening lessons and school field trip programs to children ages 3-18 for three years and interned at the Youth Farm in Brooklyn before moving back to Maine for a farm apprenticeship.

She worked at Hancock Family Farm in Casco, ME growing vegetables and specialty cut flowers, before discovering a deep passion for perennial and ornamental gardens. She then dove into landscape gardening, working with Full Circle Landscaping in Falmouth, ME and later with Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk, ME on house plant and perennial production.

She co-founded a landscape design company in the Portland area in 2020, which has now morphed into Triflorum. Now, she loves inhabiting the overlap between resilient ecologically-informed design, beauty in the landscape, and the joy that gardens and flowers elicit for humans. She is passionate about floral design, urban gardening, building community around food and plants, and education.

Certifications and Training:

Coastal Maine Botanical Garden: Certificate in Resilient Landscapes in Built Environments, 2021.

Resilience Hub: 25-hour permaculture design intensive

New York Botanical Garden: Coursework towards NYBG Floral Design Certificate

Saipua: 2024 Floral Residency at Worlds’ End Farm