A little bit about our team

Gayle Lohmar - Owner, Operator, Permaculture Designer

Gayle is the owner and operator of Water it With Love Landscaping, LLC. She manages the daily operations for organic garden maintenance, offers permaculture and landscape design services (virtual and in-person), and loves to share educational resources with the community through her blog and special events. Her passion for permaculture runs deep, growing up in multi-generational, family gardens and pursuing interests in renewable energy technology, herbalism, ‘bio’-tecture, and global networking for over 25 years. After receiving the Permaculture Design Certificate with Boulder Permaculture, Gayle became an active member of PINA (Permaculture Institute of North America), Wild Ones - Front Range Chapter, and Herbalists Without Borders. With extensive working knowledge in growing food, landscaping, and preserving the harvest, Gayle started Water It With Love to help transform the community with a more resilient approach to both the agricultural and landscaping industries.

Contact Gayle@wateritwithlove.com or at (720) 938-0928 for permaculture questions, organic gardening services, educational events, and more.

Sage Coughlin - Herbalist, Permaculture Designer, Lead Gardener

Sage (she/they pronouns) has been a gardener in Boulder County since 2016, working in varied settings from biodynamic farming to organic landscape gardening. Sage is a certified herbalist, having graduated the advanced herbalism program at Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism in 2018. Their education in vitalism, folk and clinical herbalism, botany, and nutrition has informed their work to this day.

Sage's life changed when they studied permaculture design via Permaculture Institute in 2017. Since, they have committed to integrating sustainable practices into their work in Colorado's arid front range landscapes. Sage now offers to-scale customized permaculture landscape design and gardening consultation for Water It With Love. You can also find Sage working the gardens on our routine maintenance crew. Additionally, Sage is nurturing the growth of Dirt Hearth LLC, a landing place for all of Sage's various offerings and services.

Visit dirthearth.com to read more about Sage's offerings and browse their design portfolio. Request Sage as your landscape designer via WIWL if you have specific interest in permaculture-based assessment, xeriscaping, or medicinal/edible herb gardens.

Kira Rukin - Professional Landscape and Permaculture Designer

Kira earned a degree in Garden Design from Capel Manor in London, England in 2009. Following a move to Boulder, Colorado ten years ago, she earned certification in Permaculture to round out her training and now practices design using permaculture as a driving force. Kira’s passion is to work together with clients to design beautiful, useful gardens that are a reflection of themselves and enable a closer connection to the outdoors.

For landscape and garden design inquiries, contact design@wateritwithlove.com.

Susan Klein - Administrator, Billing Specialist

Susan’s love for the plant world began twelve years ago when she worked on a friend's native plant nursery near Lucerne, Switzerland. Her love for the outdoors brought her to Leadville, Colorado where she now lives next to a lake that is home to several beavers, waterfowl, and wildflowers. She has six years of landscape/gardening experience and is always eager to learn more about permaculture. In 2017, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Care at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She cares deeply about the natural world and our relationship to it.

While you may see Susan getting her hands dirty here and there, her main role at Water It With Love is an administrator. Susan brings her seven years of experience in administrative assistance to our team, supporting all the necessary back-end duties so that the rest of the team may continue the manual work that makes your gardens the beautiful, bountiful places they are. As an administrator, Susan feels connected to her love for the Earth in helping Water It With Love fulfill its mission. 

For billing inquiries, email admin@wateritwithlove.com.

Mariah Master - Farmer, Herbalist, Permaculture Designer & Educator

Mariah began her herbalism studies during her time at Metropolitan State University where she received her Bachelors in Integrative Health Care. She has apprenticed under Ryan Drum in the Pacific Northwest, which led her to farming and eventually managing an organic farm on Orcas Island. She is an avid traveler and has spent time in Eswatini and India volunteering, mentoring, and learning from community gardens and NGO’s. She loves to make animal friends wherever she goes, pictured is her former pet chicken Annie.

She received her Permaculture Design Certificate from Earth Activist Training in 2021 and is a student of the Regenerative Land Management Program. She works part time as the Program Administrator for Earth Activist Training assisting with online class support. She recently completed an advanced design course focused on decolonization and how to design for the most vulnerable populations. With this knowledge, training, and experience, Mariah is serving as online education coordinator for WIWL’s online garden classes. She also offers farm-scale permaculture design for commercial and homestead sites in her own business, Untamed Ecology, in the Denver area. She is the mother to a beautiful baby girl and has enjoyed digging her roots into Colorado’s beautiful soil to focus on family and community.

Work with WIWL

Calling all 2026 earth tenders! Interested in working with Water It With Love? If “dependable, hardworking nature-lover” describes you, and you’d like to get your hands dirty in the garden, please contact us today. We are currently hiring for the 2026 routine maintenance and installation work.

Seasonal work begins April 1 and ends on or before November 15 (inclement weather permitting).

The ideal candidates:

• Have reliable transportation

• Enjoy working independently and in group-settings

• Have experience gardening or landscaping in Colorado (required)

• Bring unique skills and abilities to share with the team

• Must love being outdoors rain, sleet, or shine (we do not work in snow or below freezing temps)

• Must be available to work during operating business hours (M-TH 8am-4pm)

• Can lift heavy objects up to 50lbs (not required)

• Carry private liability insurance for independent contractor services OR would be willing to obtain by start date.
  

Various jobs include:

• Weekly maintenance crew members

• Installation crew members for spring and fall garden projects

  
  Pay: Starting wage is $25/hour or more depending on skills and experience.

Currently, all positions are part-time (up to 25-30 hours per week). There will be an increase in merit after 3 months of employment and a bonus at season-end. Progressive annual increases in merit as experience and skills develop.

To inquire, please email wateritwithlove@gmail.com with a brief summary of what makes you a great candidate. In the subject line, state the job - weekly crew or installation crew. List skills and desired pay.