Custom Ponds & Water Features
Design • Build • Consult • Repair • Maintain. Natural ecosystem ponds, pondless waterfalls, streams, and custom water features shaped for your property.
Serving McKinleyville, Arcata, Eureka, Trinidad, and surrounding Humboldt communities.
Living Earth Landscapes
Rooted in Experience. Built for the Years Ahead.
Landscape design and master plans, construction, renovation, repair, water management, and practical site consultation backed by approximately 30 years of field experience.
From standalone CAD design plans with editable files and material take-offs to complete builds and phased renovations, Living Earth helps clients plan, build, and care for outdoor spaces that function well over time.
Design Services
A plan shaped by your property
Full CAD design capabilities, scaled working plans with editable files, and plant choices grounded in real site conditions bring a landscape into focus. AI-assisted concept renderings explore the possibilities; dimensioned CAD plans guide the working layout.
Concept rendering developed from site measurements and a scaled layout.
Estimate • Consultation • Inspiration
Sometimes You Need an Estimate. Sometimes You Need an Answer First. Sometimes You Need Inspiration.
Whether you have a defined project, need help thinking through a problem, or are still gathering ideas, Living Earth can help you find a useful next step.
Practical Experience Across the Property
Aerial view of the Wallace setting.
A decade of care across one property
Over a decade, Living Earth has helped maintain, repair, and improve the Wallace property. That ongoing relationship brings a detailed understanding of its structures, gardens, and systems—helping balance immediate needs with long-term goals as priorities change.
Landscape + Site
Planting, grading, drainage, irrigation, hardscape, access.
Structures + Water
Decks, stairs, fences, ponds, pumps, filtration, masonry.
Planning + Renovation
Repair, replacement, phasing, consultation, long-term property improvement.
Connected outdoor spaces
A courtyard and garden pond show how stonework, planting, and water can shape a connected outdoor experience.
Featured Projects
Featured Work
Decks, Fences & Outdoor Structures
Deck construction, repair and replacement, stairs, railings, fences, gates, and site-specific outdoor structures.
Hardscape & Masonry
Paver patios and driveways, flagstone, retaining walls, stone steps, entries, and hardscape renovation.
Planting & Landscape Renovation
Whole-property landscapes, planting renovation, soil improvement, irrigation, and long-term site development.
Licensed & Certified
Licensed C-27 Landscape Contractor & QWEL-Certified Irrigation Auditor Serving Humboldt & Del Norte Counties (CSLB #846559)
Why Living Earth?
Owner-Operated, and directly involved.
Keith Hamm brings approximately 30 years of applied experience across landscape construction, water features, drainage, irrigation, carpentry, hardscape, site work, planting, and property improvement.
The goal is not high-volume production. It is direct involvement, practical judgment, clear communication, and work that makes sense for the property.
Teaching & Practical Guidance
Sharing practical knowledge has long been part of Living Earth.
During the years Keith operated a retail nursery and pond-supply business, he regularly helped property owners understand systems, choose appropriate materials and equipment, and complete portions of projects themselves. That included years of free workshops and demonstrations on ponds, water management, rain catchment, planting, and related outdoor systems.
The goal was not simply to sell a product. It was to help people understand what they were building, avoid common mistakes, and know when professional involvement would make a meaningful difference.
That same approach continues today through consultation, DIY guidance, educational content, and the growing Living Earth knowledge library.
Client Testimonials
“Keith was a rare find! A skilled craftsman with a great work ethic and a genuinely nice guy. We had him complete several landscaping projects for us at both our home in Trinidad and our home in Santa Rosa. All were completed quickly and with skilled work. Hire Keith, you will not be disappointed!”
“Living Earth landscaped my backyard to include an English perennial garden and pond with an almost invisible fence to keep the deer out. Keith is inventive with great customer care.”
“Keith brought practicality, high-level skill, experience, creativity, and careful planning to a complicated, long-term project. Years later, he was still available with technical advice when I wanted to reseal the pavers myself.”
“Keith was super easy to work with, communicated well and was on time and on the money. Fence turned out great. Can’t recommend highly enough.”
Living Earth Portal
Your Living Earth Portal
The Living Earth Client Portal is built so project information, questions, communication, photos, documents, and history have a dependable home. Instead of important details being scattered across texts, email threads, invoices, photos, and memory, the Portal keeps the working relationship organized around you and your property.
Good contractor relationships should become easier to manage over time, not harder. The Portal is designed to preserve the details, communication, and continuity that can otherwise disappear into the cracks between conversations and projects.
Living Earth Portal
- New to Living Earth — contact and project intake
- Existing client — Portal sign-in
Ask Living Earth
What can we help you understand or plan?
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Practical guidance based on Living Earth’s verified reference library and field experience. Property-specific diagnosis, design, pricing, and code decisions may require direct review.