"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass

“We are nature, working” - Penny Livingston-Stark

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within [us] is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass “We are nature, working” - Penny Livingston-Stark "We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within [us] is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Una donna di fuora

In Sicilian folklore, the donne di fuora or ‘women of the outside’ were said to be cunning, magical herbalists + matriarchs who communed in the forest by moonlight. They imbued their villages + broader communities with reverence for the natural world + its wisdom.

As a student of sustainable agriculture and landscape architecture, designer Gabrielle Ragusa envisions creative solutions to ecosystem degradation + social inequity to help root her in this ancestral tradition.

Gabrielle seeks to utilize skills acquired via formal education, interdisciplinary experience + curiosity-driven experimentation to enhance environments for the benefit of all. She finds inspiration in food, sacred geometry, travel, topography, + the behavior of all manner of species. Her design palette includes a diversity of edible + ornamental plant material, strategies for a circular economy + cultural context.

  • Plumeria 'Hilo Beauty'

  • Chambeyronia macrocarpa 'Hookeri'

  • Folly Beach, SC

  • Sedona, AZ

  • Alpinia zerumbet

  • Palm Beach, FL

  • Chambeyronia macrocarpa

  • Spondylis buprestoides

  • Stardust

  • Delonix regia

  • Copernicia ekmanii

  • Eucalyptus deglupta

  • Syntomeida epilais

  • Latania lontaroides

  • Licuala mapu

  • Loxahatchee, FL

  • Plumeria frangipani

  • Tinnie, NM

  • Monstera fairchildlandii

  • Apoxee Trail, FL

  • Pachira aquatica

  • Coconino Nat'l Forest, AZ

  • Pseudophoenix vinifera

  • Frying Pan Tower, NC

  • Breckenridge, CO