OUR MISSION

We are a small, worker-owned company dedicated to creating functional native landscaping. We are committed to building and fostering healthy landscapes for the people and communities we live in.

Community | Quality | Sustainability

WHO WE ARE

Great Blue is a worker-owned cooperative in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded by three childhood friends/brothers from the same small neighborhood in Mt Rainier, MD – after charting separate paths through our early twenties, we all settled in Baltimore, grew out our beards, and decided to have a go at our childhood dream of owning our own business together.

We have since expanded to include other new members but continue to democratically make decisions and run the business as equals. We strive to create the kind of community we wish to live in at our workplace.

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Madelyn
Toni
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Kristin

Luke Walsh-Mellett

Favorite Plant- Aquilegia Canadensis ‘Eastern Red Columbine’

Favorite Sandwich- Oyster Po Boy

Madelyn Kirsch 

Favorite Plant – Solidago rugosa 

Favorite Sandwich – Tofu Bahn Mi 

Toni Elliott

Favorite Plant – Vaccinium Corymbosum ‘Highbush Blueberry’

Favorite Sandwich – Tofu Bahn Mi

Ben Walsh-Mellett

Favorite Plant- Rhododendron

Favorite Sandwich- Pulled Pork

Kirsten Schroeder

Favorite Plant – Schizachyrium scoparium

Favorite Sandwich – A Kitsch Cafe Cuban Sandwich

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Year 2000. From left to right: David, Ben, Liam (not one of the business owners), and Luke.

Early R and D for a rain garden