Land Language

In this episode of Land Language, hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark sit down with Andrea Palacio, co-founder of Crewless. Andrea walks through how she used AI to rescue her Florida lawn care company from near-collapse, and what she learned when she stepped too far away. Andrea went from answering 50+ calls a day with a newborn in her arms to building Crewless: an AI implementation consu...

In this episode of Land Language, we sit down with Brittney Herrera, CEO of Thunder Egg and GeoTune. With 25 years in interior architecture for Fortune 500 tech companies, Brittney has spent her career designing spaces where people want to be. Over time, she found the layer beneath the built environment that most designers never look at: the energetic condition of the land itself. We discuss geopa...

In this episode of Land Language, hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark sit down with Angelique Robb, founder of SYNKD, a media platform and event series connecting landscape architects, contractors, designers, and horticulturists. They dig into the communication failures that cost design-build-maintain projects their best outcomes, two materials most US practitioners haven't encountered, a...

Jonathan Clay built The Kalos Project to close Houston's local food gap using permaculture design. The same principles guide how he leads his team. In this episode of Land Language, hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark sit down with Jonathan and explore how permaculture's closed-loop principles translate to team leadership, what it takes to create a safe container for conflict on a job sit...

$14 trillion in small business assets will change hands in the next decade. If you own a trades business, this conversation is for you. David Hori has spent his career where people and business overlap. From HR to startup operations to building and exiting pro.com (acquired by Opendoor), he now coaches business owners on how to build, prepare, and thoughtfully pass on what they've created. Brit an...

The landscape industry is still building its catalog of case studies for regenerative work. Every project that gets built is an example. Every conversation that shifts a client's understanding is a seed. We're all relearning methods of cultivation that were once just daily life, and we're doing it together. In this episode: Why the first question in any deck project isn't about materials, it's abo...

In this episode of Land Language, Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark talk with Marc Boucher-Colbert, longtime garden educator and urban farming advocate, about how outdoor spaces can nurture curiosity, resilience, and ecological literacy in children. Marc shares his decades of experience developing school gardens and edible landscapes—from composting and crop rotations to integrated pest manag...

Soil health is the backbone of regenerative landscape design. In this episode, hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark talk with Nick Tomasini, soil consultant, microbiology specialist, and founder of Humankind Oregon, about the real science behind soil structure, compaction, microbial activity, and soil amendments that actually work. Nick explains soil chemistry vs. biology, how to choose th...

Sustainable landscaping and regenerative landscape design aren’t just about plants and products, they’re about how we relate to the creatures that hold our food systems together. In this episode of Land Language , hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark talk with Onyx Baird , documentary filmmaker, regenerative beekeeper, and wildlife scientist, about rethinking bees, beekeeping, and pollinat...

Local, sustainable wood is more than a material choice. It’s a connection to land, community, and story. In this episode, Land Language hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark sit down with Lynn Morgan , Director of Community Engagement at Sustainable Northwest Wood , to explore how regenerative forestry, ethical material sourcing, and cultural stewardship can transform the landscaping and bu...

Sustainable landscape construction isn't just about swapping one product for another, it's about questioning the entire system. In this episode, Land Language hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark talk with Jenny Jones , founder of Terremoto, a Los Angeles-based design studio challenging conventional construction practices through material reuse, labor visibility, and conservation-minded de...

Regenerative landscape design isn’t just about plants — it’s about teaching people to be in right relationship with land. In this episode of Land Language , hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya (CEO, Blueprint Earth; stormwater expert) and Bethany Rydmark sit down with New Zealand landscape designer and author Xanthe White to talk about process-driven design, soil and water as living systems, and why restrain...

Growing food isn't about producing bushels of vegetables or becoming self-sufficient—it's about cultivating connection, wonder, and daily rituals that nourish both body and soul. In this episode, Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark talk with garden writer and cookbook author Willi Galloway about integrating edibles into landscapes, discovering overlooked plant parts, and building a breakfast ro...

In this episode of Land Language , hosts Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark sit down with nursery owner, author, and plant ecologist Paul Bonine (co-owner of Xera Plants , paleoclimatology background, and longtime horticultural educator). Together, they go deep into the future of regenerative landscaping through native annuals, cover cropping, soil biology, and plant-driven weed management. Pa...

What if the future of landscaping starts with a conversation? Welcome to Land Language, the podcast where landscape contractor/designer Brit Sastrawidjaya and landscape architect Bethany Rydmark bring you the real, unfiltered conversations about building regenerative landscapes. No fluff. No greenwashing. Just practical tools, expert insights, and honest talk about transforming the industry from t...