ABC Garden Services is an edible landscaping business based in the Cowichan Valley.

We are a small team of highly skilled horticulturalists and carpenters who provide customized garden care and basic landscape constructions for residential, rural, and commercial properties, with a focus on food production, native plants, and eco-logical practices.

Read on to learn more about our amazing team members:

Owner Laura Boyd-Clowes is an experienced landscaper and plant-lover. She has been an active participant in Cowichan Valley’s farm and food community since moving here in 2017 to work as manager for Cowichan Green Community’s “Kinpark Youth Urban Farm”, a permaculture demonstration site, community gardens, and educational market garden in downtown Duncan.

With her partner Luca, Laura is Co-owner of Wishing Well Farm, a small market garden in North Cowichan. For many years they were an active Producer for the Cowichan Valley Co-operative Marketplace (aka Cow-op.) Laura also served as Community Facilitator for the co-op, which provided valuable opportunities for hands-on learning from our region’s best food growers, farmers, and local food leaders.

She is an energetic worker and lifelong learner whose passion for plants, natural farming, and resilient communities lead her to complete a Masters of Science in Ethnobotany. Laura currently runs the Primary Centre gardening program at Queen Margarets’ School in Duncan.
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Luca Granata is a gardener and a journeyman carpenter with an education in Architecture. He is a detail-oriented craftsman who enjoys the process of building using natural materials. With experience working on farms and properties around the world, including several seasons as an employee at Tatlo Road Organic Farm, he is a passionate and dedicated horticulturalist, always looking to practice new techniques or engineer better systems. In his spare time he can either be found in the garden, the woodshop, or walking in the woods. Motivated by an endless curiosity about plants and nature, and driven by the desire to create substantial, high-quality things, Luca brings a wealth of knowledge and skills to every project. In addition to working with ABC Garden Services, Luca is also the founder of his own landscape construction business, LG Design Build.

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Naomi Kulhawy has been working closely with plants for more than a decade, starting her agricultural journey in a commercial hothouse growing peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants and other heat-loving market crops. In 2019 Naomi started working at Kinpark Youth Urban Farm facilitating garden activities for youth and tending the large market garden, community gardens, and edible landscaping throughout the community park the farm is located in. Naomi managed Kinpark from 2022 until moving on in September of 2025 to follow her passion for youth education by pursuing a post baccalaureate degree in teaching. 

Naomi believes strongly that we can learn a lot by observing nature and spending time in outdoor spaces. These are values she is looking forward to bringing into her teaching practice. 

When not busy in the garden or wandering her micro urban homestead barefoot, Naomi is usually found creating something with her hands - knitting, sewing, painting or baking bread while sipping from a cozy mug of tea.