Founded in 2012, Halcyon Homesteads is a team effort by Adam Kozak and Alisa Kowal. Our ultimate goal is to educate our clients- and the community at large- about the ecological, therapeutic, and financial benefits of utilizing outdoor space to create low-maintenance environments ripe with beauty and natural harmony.

Over the years, we have consistently worked to continue learning and improving our practices to better serve our mission: to help our clients create and maintain beautiful and environmentally friendly landscapes. We strive to create gardens that are beneficial to the local ecosystem, providing food and habitat to wildlife and sequestering carbon into the soil. Our plantings help a complex web of life to cooperate, find nutrients, thrive, reproduce and decompose. Our designs also aid water management, using as little water as possible and helping to retain water for future use. These attributes help our landscapes adapt to a changing climate and mitigate the impacts of ongoing environmental devastation. Every garden counts!

As of 2023 all of our equipment is now electric.

Currently serving the following: Sunderland, Deerfield, Greenfield, Hadley, Amherst, Northampton, Leverett, Hatfield, Whately, Conway, Montague

Adam Kozak

Adam has been an avid gardener and wildlife enthusiast since he was a toddler. He grew his first flower and vegetable garden at the age of 9. He has worked under the tutelage of two garden centers (Tarnow 2006-2007 and The Hadley Garden Center in 2012) with experience in landscape design and installation, and received a business certificate in Environmental Studies/Natural Resource Management from Greenfield Community College. He spends his free time tinkering with old synthesizers and making music under the name Burial Grid.

Alisa Kowal

Alisa has also been a lifelong outdoor enthusiast; some of her earliest memories are of working in her family's flower and vegetable gardens in rural WV. While majoring in Sociology at Smith College, she became passionate about sustainability and environmental issues, eventually taking a month-long course in sustainability in Dakar, Senegal. Upon graduating, she spent a summer as a community organizer with the national organization Food and Water Watch, which works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and ethically produced. She fell in love with the art of wildlife gardening while working on an organic/vegan farm in the Berkshires in 2009-2011, and has been a passionate gardener ever since. She also loves frolicking with her blind pup, Titan.