Our Land Organics is a natural landscaping company near Cincinnati that designs, builds, and maintains beautiful, functional, and eco-friendly landscapes
We’re on a mission to bring people closer to nature through innovative landscape designs that enhance outdoor relaxation and support native plants, pollinators, and wildlife.
Our team envisions a future for the Ohio River Valley where humans and ecological systems flourish together.
Our Team
We pride ourselves on our ongoing commitment to education, professionalism, and
high-quality design, installation, and maintenance services. The Our Land Organics team has multiple decades of combined experience in natural landscaping, sustainable landscape design, organic land care, environmental restoration, permaculture, and more.
We invite you to learn more about our team’s experience below. And please visit our Careers page if you’re interested in joining our team!
John Hemmerle, AOCLP
“Not too far from Cincinnati lies the Red River Gorge. The Red’s forest floor is carpeted with beautiful plants and towering trees that climb up the steep sandstone rock. You can’t help but be immersed. During the summer of 2008, I built cabins there with a friend, and I felt like part of the breathing flora, the clean water and sweet air. “I want this to be my life,” I thought—not just for a summer, not just on vacation, but every day. Life is too short not to experience abundance and beauty. And we can find it right in our own yards. We can go outside and watch for hummingbirds, hear the leaves of the plants play against each other, listen to the faint buzz of bees as they enjoy sweet pollen. We can breath a little easier, feel a little richer, and know that we’re playing an important role in ecological resilience simply through cultivating the right plants in the right place. Let’s build some peace, one yard at a time.”
Founder / Managing Director
Rowan Strippelhoff
Assistant Landscape Designer
Rowan is part of the design team at Our Land Organics, bringing a background in horticulture, landscape design, and plan graphics. With an excellent graphic eye, Rowan creates compelling visuals that help clients understand and connect with their future landscapes.
Rowan is especially interested in native plants, entomology, and ecological design, with a focus on landscapes that are beautiful, functional, and supportive of insects, wildlife, and healthier local ecosystems. Outside of work, Rowan enjoys hiking, identifying plants, and searching for rare native species in local parks and nature preserves.
Wes Sexton, AOLCP
Wes is experienced in sustainable horticulture and agriculture and also holds a degree in Poetry. He enjoys stonework and is an Accredited Organic Land Care Professional through the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s Organic Land Care Program (NOFA OLC). He loves watching things grow and using plants to enrich people’s lives.
Client Relationship Manager
Bryan Thompson
Crew Leader
Bryan helps bring new life to clients’ landscapes through installations, enhancements, and ongoing maintenance. He enjoys creating outdoor spaces that clients are excited to come home to. With years of landscape experience, Bryan brings a strong eye for detail and a client-focused perspective to each project. He is a wealth of practical landscape knowledge and enjoys sharing that knowledge with the team to help others grow in the field.
Bryan especially appreciates ecological landscaping because it creates beauty while providing food, shelter, and healthier habitat for wildlife. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outdoors on his back patio, hunting, fishing, and canoeing.
Jacob is a huge source of inspiration within our ecological landscape design studio. He has been designing native landscapes since 2010 and draws inspiration from a wide range of landscape and garden styles including (but not limited to) Japanese gardens, cottage gardens, English castle gardens, and permaculture.
As he puts it, “I’ve mentored under several native landscape designers, taken courses on a wide range of topics, worked on unique projects in half a dozen states, and stayed curious the whole time.”
Lead Landscape Designer
Jacob Thompson
Amy Hittinger
Operations Manager
Amy helps keep projects and daily operations moving smoothly at Our Land Organics. She enjoys challenging, hands-on work as much as organizing projects, seeing them through, and watching the results come together. With years of experience in the green industry, Amy brings a broad knowledge of pruning, planting, tree work, equipment operation, and project coordination. She loves helping clients create outdoor spaces that are beautiful, usable, and connected to nature.
Amy especially appreciates fresh air, getting dirty, and landscapes that work with nature through thoughtful planting, color, boulders, and hardscape elements. Outside of work, she is proud mom to Grayden and Fiona and loves watching them grow through music, sports, and their own creative interests.
