Joey Nishida, Owner
Joey Nishida’s background is rooted in hands-on land and agricultural work. He started his first landscaping business as a college student in Bellingham at WWU and studied biochemistry/microbiology. He has worked on local organic farms and also in property management in the Methow Valley since 2014.
Joey is expanding Sawtooth Edible Gardens to help people in the Methow Valley design, build, and maintain productive, resilient gardens and land systems. His projects include edible garden design, irrigation systems, and supporting structures such as sheds and greenhouses. He enjoys working with both new systems and established gardens, offering a thoughtful, straightforward approach grounded in long-term experience with this landscape.
Over the past three years, Joey has worked in renewable energy development, helping bring Community Solar projects onto the grid. His background in GIS, focuses on land analysis, site selection, environmental review, and project coordination.
Joey’s connection to the Methow Valley began in the mid-1990s, when his family first started spending time in the area. In 2013, he moved to the valley full time with his partner Raechel while working as conservation biology interns at the North Cascades Basecamp in Mazama. They have lived, worked, and gardened in the Methow ever since, gaining deep familiarity with the local climate, soils, and growing conditions.
Sawtooth Edible Gardens operates on the unceded territory of the Methow Tribe, and its work is informed by Indigenous land stewardship practices and place-based agricultural knowledge.
Dundee and Nootka, Excavation Experts
Dundee and Nootka, are our Australian Shepherd pups who help around our garden with morale, hole digging, and mouse hunting when applicable. They love eating peas off the vine and relaxing in freshly planted beds.
Ready to start building the life and garden of your dreams? Contact us today to get started.
“Restoring land without restoring a relationship is an empty exercise. It is a relationship that will endure and a relationship that will sustain the restored land.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer