About Sawtooth Edible Gardens
Joey Nishida, Owner, Garden Designer & GIS Consultant
Joey brings together hands-on land work, ecological design, and technical mapping experience. He started his first landscaping business while attending Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he studied biochemistry and microbiology. Since 2014, he has worked on organic farms and in property management in the Methow Valley, gaining practical experience with gardening, irrigation, soil care, seasonal maintenance, and the challenges of growing in North Central Washington.
Through Sawtooth Edible Gardens, Joey helps landowners and organizations better understand, design, and care for the places they steward. His work includes edible garden design, irrigation planning, permaculture-informed land design, GIS mapping, remote site analysis, and supporting structures such as sheds and greenhouses. He enjoys working with both new and established systems, offering a thoughtful, straightforward approach grounded in practical experience and close observation of the landscape.
Over the past three years, Joey has worked in renewable energy development, helping bring community solar projects onto the grid through GIS-based land analysis, site selection, environmental review, and project coordination. This technical background allows him to combine ecological design with clear spatial analysis, helping clients make informed decisions before they build, plant, restore, or develop.
Joey’s connection to the Methow Valley began in the mid-1990s, when his family first started spending time in the area. He moved to the valley full time in 2013 while working as a conservation biology intern at the North Cascades Basecamp in Mazama and has lived, worked, and gardened here ever since.
Sawtooth Edible Gardens operates on the unceded territory of the Methow Tribe. Its work is informed by respect for Indigenous land stewardship, place-based agricultural knowledge, and the responsibility to care for land with humility and long-term attention.
Dundee and Nootka, Excavation Experts
Dundee and Nootka, are our Australian Shepherd pups who help around our garden with morale, hole digging, and mouse hunting when applicable. They love eating peas off the vine and relaxing in freshly planted beds.
Ready to plan a thriving garden or land-based project? Contact us today to get started.
“Restoring land without restoring a relationship is an empty exercise. It is a relationship that will endure and a relationship that will sustain the restored land.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer