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James Dale Partner, Designer, Earth Inc. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a major in History and Ryerson’s Landscape Architecture program, James has garnered recognition for his award-winning landscape designs. He is well respected for his height, clean-shaven head (and mind), a propensity to talk back (but later apologize) and an unstoppable passion for pronouncing both vowels in “Saab,” his vehicle of choice. As cohost of HGTV’s Dirty Business, James was able to showcase his various natural (and unnatural) talents. |
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Kennedy McRae Partner, Designer, Earth Inc. Kennedy is one of Canada’s leading redheads. He has a passion for design and an uncanny ability to create forward thinking and avante garde concepts. Always hungering for new ideas he takes inspiration from every situation and is the king of superlatives, his quest for ‘awesome’ is contagious. A natural risk taker, Kennedy always knows how far to push the envelope and say ‘stop’ before the design becomes quirky. He is a graduate of the Humber College Landscape Technician/Technologist program. Although his passion is design he really should have been a musician he loves all types of music, however, the rest of the team just wish he kept his singing to the shower not the office. As one of the co-hosts of Dirty Business on HGTV, Kennedy was never averse to getting down and dirty. |
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Beverly McClosky General Manager Beverly is a graduate of Loughborough University of Technology in England and brings masterful experience (over thirty years) in helping to grow and augment businesses. From a long line of nurserymen and expert gardeners (English style), she speaks eloquently of, and to, plants and packs a walloping sense of dry humour, which she blends with a smile that has launched a thousand ships. Although always having to be the voice of reason and the sensible one (she is, after all, the bean counter), Beverly would much rather be either cooking them or growing them (the beans, that is) or zip-lining through the tree canopy. |
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Jay Smith Technical & Construction Manager A licensed Structural Designer and certified Master Restorer, Jay has a knack for making our work happen and manipulating dirt to suit precise client needs. His love of vigorous shrubbery is balanced perfectly by a weakness for the blues – the music, not the state of mind. Despite more than twenty years in virtually all aspects of the construction business, he still has ten fingers and ten toes – and seldom shows signs of instability. |
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Michael McMartin Designer Michael is a graduate of the University of Guelph (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture) and has completed graduate studies in Interior and Product Design in Florence, Italy. Just for a laugh, he studied Sculpture and Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. Michael is our sustainable design authority, having gained valuable experience at home and abroad whilst working and studying at the Institute Without Boundaries. However, he is not a perpetual student and now spends his time maintaining his significant beard, providing in-house chef services and creating phenomenal landscape designs, usually with a doodle somewhere on them. |
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Tara Maginn Bookkeeper & Administrator Tara is a graduate of Newport College in Foundation Art, and Fashion and Textile Design. She has several years of experience working for small businesses and not-for-profit agencies. A seasoned traveller, she has visited and lived in several countries and has many stories to tell. Tara can be seen on many a summer’s evening tending her vegetable plot in the community garden, encouraging her zucchini and cauliflowers to grow, and trying to stop her broccoli from bolting. |