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 the owner of May Apple LLC and is passionate about plants! She has 18 years of experience in horticulture, landscaping, landscape design, and farming.
Having an education in fine art with a minor in french and poetry from CMU this wasn’t an expected path for Meg. She got bit by the gardening bug as soon as she graduated from art school and didn’t look back. Although she has many years of experience working with plants in many fashions 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.
Meg has worked on farms, started three farms, drove a produce delivery truck, did trail building, worked at Chelsea Garden Center, taught vegetable gardening classes, completed a horticulture apprenticeship, worked as a seasonal gardener at The High Line Park in Manhattan for two years, and started and run two landscaping businesses. Continuing education and learning being one of Meg’s other passions she has completed the Organic Landcare Accreditation Program and earned her Sustainable Horticulture and Design Certificate through Phipps Conservatory. As well as earned her Arborist Short Course Certificate and tree climbing certificate through 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. She also enjoys learning through the natural environment, botanizing while hiking, kayaking, and on camping trips. Currently Meg teaches two yearly classes at Phipps Conservatory Sustainable Gardening Principles and Practices in the spring and Home Garden Design in the fall.
Lawrenceville Community Garden, Pittsburgh 2005-06
WOOFED vegetable farm in FL 2008
Chelsea Garden Center 2008-2009
Children’s Education, Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2008-2009
Seasonal Gardener, Highline Park Manhattan 2009-2010
Horticulture Apprenticeship, Wavehill Garden 2010-2011
Seasonal Gardener, Highline Park Manhattan 2011-2012
Owner and Operator, Knotweed Urban Farm, Healcrest Urban Farm, and Cutting Root Farm 2012-2015
Penns Corner Farm Alliance 2013-2015
Owner and Operator, Dirt Landscaping Collective 2014-2020
Owner and Operator, May Apple LLC 2020- to present
Additional Certifications and trainings:
Horticulture certification, Cornell Extension, 2009
Organic Landcare Accreditation Program, Sustainable Horticulture and Design Certificate, Phipps Conservatory 2014-2018
Arborist Training and Tree Climbing Training, Penn State 2019 and 2022