About the Author/Owner of Indigenous Landscapes LLC

Have you ever wondered who's behind Indigenous Landscapes LLC? This for-purpose business was created by a Cincinnati, Ohio born and raised 23 year old back in 2013. My name is Solomon Doe, formerly known as Solomon Gamboa. Most of my knowledge comes from independent field studying in prairies, wetlands, forests, neighborhoods, and degraded environments. My knowledge also comes from field experience of designing, installing, and maintaining native prairie/meadow plantings, reforestation projects, and pollinator gardens in the private sector. I gained my invasive plant removal experience through working through my business and previously when I was employed by Cincinnati Parks as a Horticulturist. By cross analyzing 1,000's of acres of ecosystems and their species with soil surveys; I've developed a unique interpretation of how to restore native plants. That field study and field experience is supplemented by interpreting and reviewing ecological research.

One intention of Indigenous Landscapes is promoting Native Plant Agriculture - a path to climate change mitigation and biodiversity recovery. I’d like to help people create Native Plant Agricultural plantings that can one day contribute to native food festivals to help build a market for native plants in our diet. An underlying purpose of this project is to connect people back to nature psychologically through a positive attachment to specifically Native plant foods. With a positive attachment to nature, people tend to care for and act for its protection and restoration.

Another intention of Indigenous Landscapes to provide exceptional education quality to the public about ecology and native plants. Through Facebook educational posts, YouTube presentations, and published books I seek to enable and aid restoration practitioners to achieve successful and impactful projects. To date I've written a Forest Types of SW Ohio and SE Indiana E-Book, a Native Plant Propagation Guide & Nursery Model, Native Plant Agriculture Vol. 1, and Native Meadowscaping - each in consecutive years between 2019 - 2021. As of 2024 I’m working on a book about 50 native trees for restoration projects and neighborhoods, and I have 4 more books planned to be published between 2025 and 2029. Check out our free Facebook educational post index here.

OUR SERVICES

Indigenous Landscape’s service to ecological restoration efferts in the U.S. is to communicate and transfer enough of our professional skills, knowledge, and field experience, for you to succeed in establishing a wide variety of native plant species. The large majority of our educational materials are free of cost, and any information essential to establishing native plants from us is always free. We’re providing native plants in the form of Seed Mixes in 2024. With our instruction manual and customer service, our goal is to enable you or a hired landscaper to restore habit and plant native plant gardens through the establishment seed mixes. For more info on our seed mixes, go to this link.

To be notified of our plant sales and educational materials, please sign up for our email list towards the bottom of the page. We converted our books into online books and those are now available here. Our books will come back into paperback print fall of 2024 if you’d like physical copies instead.