May Apple is an ecological and sustainable minded business with a passion for creating, restoring, and conserving native gardens and wildlife habitat. Our mission is to provide a home for our native plants, pollinators, insects, birds, mammals, amphibeans, and reptiles! In the modern world habitat is shrinking and more and more humans find themselves interfacing with wildlife that has lost it’s home. For what is a garden without bees buzzing, birds chirping, moles burrowing, and frogs hopping! The blooms, the color, the smells, the shade, the light, the glory of a garden we seek is multi layered and dynamic but we can’t have it if we don’t provide a home for all these friends to find! Let’s create spaces together for all of us to share in the beauty and infinte wisdom nature brings.
Meg is passionate about plants! She has 15 years of experience working with plants in many different fashions. Starting with a vegetable garden plot in the Lawrenceville community garden in 2005. She has WOOFED on a vegetable farm in FL, started three farms which grew vegetables, cut flowers, medicinal and organic herbs, drove a delivery truck for Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance, and did trail building training with SCA. While living on and off in NYC for four years she worked at a garden center, taught vegetable gardening classes to kids at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, completed a horticulture apprenticeship at Wavehill Garden in the Bronx, and was very lucky to have worked as a seasonal gardener at The High Line Park in Manhattan for two years. It was at The High Line Park that Meg fell in love with native plants and learned about the need for fostering these communities in our urban areas and beyond. She has completed the Organic Landcare Accreditation Program and earned her Sustainable Horticulture Certificate through Phipps Conservatory. As well as earned her Arborist Short Course Certificate though Penn State Extension. In addition to this she is attending every native plant conference and symposium she can get to offered locally and in the greater Mid-Atlantic and New England areas. While absorbing as much continuing education as possible she has also spent the last 5 years of her life working as co owner and operator of the former business Dirt Landscaping Collective. While at Dirt she was not only a business owner and manual laborer but she also offered landscape design services, side by side gardening, and garden consultations, which she will continue to offer as owner of May Apple.