About
Gold Feather Gardens
We are leading the kitchen garden movement in Boise. We design turnkey kitchen gardens that fit your lifestyle. That way, you can spend time enjoying your harvest in a beautiful, low maintenance space. Our kitchen gardens are composed of locally made raised beds, organic soil and high quality plants and seeds from nearby farms. All of our growing principles are all natural, and sourcing locally is our highest priority.
As a company, our mission is to cultivate, empower and galvanize kitchen gardeners. With authenticity, passion and empathy, we aim to create a healthier and more sustainable world, starting in Boise, Idaho.
Our Why
We believe that a local food system can fully sustain its community, but to do that, the community must invest in the local food system. If we close the loop, ensuring the money we spend on food remains in our local economy, our society and culture will be healthier in all ways.
This is a big job, but we know that if every resident of Boise started a garden, no matter the size, using local resources like we do, they would fall in love with local food, and we could make the world a happier, healthier place.
Meet our Team
Jamie Brennan, Founder + CEO
Jamie founded Gold Feather Gardens when a global pandemic brought her career in hospitality to a halt. A magazine writer and local food advocate, she turned to her garden for inspiration and healing, and she found a new path forward. That’s her goal for every client she meets: to find joy in the garden.
When Jamie isn’t gardening, she can be found writing by the river, reading a good book, cooking with her CSA and hiking in the Boise foothills with her golden retriever, Hooch, and her husband, Owen.
Teresa Nygard, Director of Operations
Teresa joined the Gold Feather team at the start of 2022. After years of admiring the GFG garden at Petite 4, she took a chance on reaching out to Jamie and asking for her dream job...and she said yes! Teresa grew up in a family of gardeners in upstate New York. A member of a very Italian family, some of her earliest memories are of picking tomatoes with her Dad and Nonna to make 150+ quarts of sauce every summer.
Food has always been the center of her home, and learning to grow that food with love on the land we're given is central to Teresa's gardening philosophy.
Outside of gardening, Teresa enjoys making homemade pasta, reading on her front porch, playing tennis, and exploring the Idaho wilderness with her husband and her pup, Fig.
Yesenia Ineck, Kitchen Garden Consultant
Yesenia’s spark for gardening began in college after a visit to a Farm to Table restaurant in Arizona. Seeing the rows of vegetables and groves of fruit trees surrounded by a barren desert started her dive into the garden world. Fast forward 10 years and a move back to Idaho, she has continued her passion. She is so excited to share her knowledge and experience with you by joining Gold Feather Gardens! Her goal is to help you grow and find your own joy in the garden.
If she’s not gardening Yesenia keeps busy with her three daughters along with her husband. She loves traveling, camping, hiking, and playing volleyball.
Gina Lockwood, Kitchen Garden Consultant
Gina’s background in gardening is rooted with her Italian family that centered around growing food, and indulging in its harvest for many gatherings that were shared by family, friends, and neighbors. She remembers the aroma of sliced fresh tomatoes and basil drizzled over them with olive oil, fried squash blossoms, and simple greens for salads and all the fixings to go with them every day. Celebrations revolved around food for all occasions. Little did she know that one day she would share a big dream-to design and create a shared alley space together as a community.
Gina retired in 2021 during the pandemic and reached out to Gold Feather Gardens as she was trying to figure out a way to use the space in her alley that was underutilized, but where most of the day’s sun was. Three raised beds were installed and the rest of her garden experience has evolved. She has since joined the Gold Feather Garden team to help out and started the North End Alley Project together with her community of neighbors to celebrate gardening and food for all occasions.
When Gina is not pursuing her passion for gardening and cooking, she spends her time exploring new adventures in Idaho, hiking with friends, painting, and always trying to be a better fisherwoman and golfer.
Maija Teppola, Kitchen Garden Consultant
Maija grew up in Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, earning her bachelor’s degree at the University of Oregon before joining the Peace Corps, where she grew her first garden (and learned about the destructive nature of slugs!). Since, she has been deepening her knowledge and sharpening her skills in establishing, cultivating, restoring, and maintaining landscapes, kitchen gardens and beyond!
Maija moved to Boise in 2015, and earned her Master’s in Health Science from Boise State University while strengthening community connections to foster sustainability. This has led her to become involved with the Idaho Botanical Garden, Snake River Seed Cooperative, and working at the region's only native plant nursery - Draggin’ Wing High Desert nursery.
Aside from an enthusiasm for growing her own veggies and herbs each season, Maija is passionate about plants endemic to the Sagebrush Steppe - a hugely important and rare ecosystem that she believes deserves to be preserved. Plants are her total passion and she is thrilled to join the Gold Feather Garden’s team to further the mission of growing kitchen gardens in Boise!
Hooch the Golden, Official GFG Mascot
Gold Feather Gardens draws inspiration from a certain golden retriever named Hooch. Jamie and Hooch have been gardening together on balconies in Atlanta, Georgia, harvesting vegetables on farms in Idaho and creating a community garden on a vacant lot near their home in Boise.
Hooch’s golden, feathery tail wags when Jamie pulls her boots on, and into the garden they go, adventuring, experimenting and enjoying what greets them in each moment. We strive to bring joy and fulfillment to all of Gold Feather Gardens clients in that way.
Have questions?Contact us.
Reach out directly if you have questions about setting up a consultation or want to collaborate on a garden.
Hello@GoldFeatherGardens.com
(208) 996-3340
Boise, Idaho