Welcome!
My name is Paige, and I'm the gardener that tends WonderHome. I am so delighted you are here to receive my offering of garden love! I have been learning and teaching in the garden for over 30 years: in local community, through regional study, as well as international travel. I am here to share my passion for plants, beauty and good design. WonderHome brings together my life work and connects you with all the generous co-creators, artists, growers, farmers, teachers, facilitators, and beautiful, dirty-fingernailed people I know, grow and co-create with. I see it is a ripe time to root in, radiate out, and rise together in the glory of the garden and all of its generous offerings. I raise my trowel to people, plants, place... purpose, play, prosperity... and last but not least, peace. I am here for it, how about you? Let's dig in!
My Work
Founder - Paige Witte Garden Design - Portland, OR
Founder - Fiddlehead Gardens Design Build- Berkeley, CA
Owner - Wonderhome Willamette Valley Vacation Rental & Venue - Newberg, OR
School Garden Director - Riverdale Grade School, Portland, Oregon
Greenhouse Coordinator - Oregon Episcopal School K-12 Education
Volunteer Coordinator - Taking Ownership PDX
Founding Educator - Edible School Yard, Berkeley, CA
Teacher - Permaculture Design & Reintegration Program - Merritt College Oakland, CA
Community Garden Director - Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
Aquatic Plant Buyer & Nursery Sales - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, Berkeley, CA
Lotus Propagator - Water’s Edge Aquatic Nursery, Lawrence, KS
WWOOF Farm Hand - Australia & New Zealand
My Studies
Environmental Studies, University of Kansas
Landscape Horticulture at Merritt College. Oakland CA
Permaculture Design at Occidental Art and Ecology Center, CA
Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley Extension.
My
Approach
My approach chooses a state of AWE & WONER, connects COMMUNITY, looks for and shares ABUNDANCE, inspires CURIOSITY, supports CREATIVITY, values COMMUNITY and celebrates SEASONS & CYCLES.
My approach is highly collaborative. I have surrounded myself and infused WonderHome with a generous circle of creatives and experts that believe tending soil and soul, sharing resources and celebrating abundance is an act of resistance to the scarcity and polarizing paradigm being told. Gardening in community is a political act and the time is now to dig in for peace. We need to dig in together and get to work on Making American Gardens Again. The way we treat the land upon where we live has always told profound stories. My approach is uniting people through plants, and Wonderhome is this place of connection.
