He is most proud of his work on the Lee-3 green roof, as well as the annual flowerbed in front of the Thomas Green Clemson statue.
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For the Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Garden, Baker supports students through professional guidance and also assists in many maintenance tasks such as hauling debris to the compost facility, weed eradication, providing mulch, and graciously supplementing maintenance during the summer months when students are less available to participate in garden work. He leads discovery tours for HORT 1010, sustainability tours of campus, and educational visits to the Lee-3 green roof. Besides leading his landscaping crew on campus, Baker also assists in many educational endeavors in the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences. Seeing an opening in the landscaping staff at Clemson and wanting to work for the state, Baker joined the Clemson family and has been working here for over 20 years. Baker began his career in landscaping by working for the Cliffs Valley Golf Club while attending classes at Tri-County Technical College. He spent time in his mother’s and aunt’s home gardens, where he was first introduced to the idea of landscaping as the marriage between art and science. Jeff Baker grew up in Pickens, South Carolina where he was introduced to landscapes and natural spaces through family activities like gardening, hiking, and hunting. Jeff Baker: Supervisor, Center Campus, Landscape Services Department She looks forward to sharing her appreciation of the nature and background in art, landscape design, and construction with students from many disciplines at Clemson University.
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For the past 10 years, she has run her own business, Byrd Landscape Design, and now works full time designing residential landscapes and chasing her highly energetic three year old daughter through the fields behind their home in Pickens, SC. Renee then worked as a research associate at Clemson, teaching landscape design classes and working with the Cliffs Communities to design a public botanical garden for one of their properties. in Plant and Environmental Science, with a focus on sustainable landscape design. She earned a B.S in Horticulture with a minor in Urban Forestry from Clemson University while running cross country and track for the Tigers, and continued her education at Clemson for a M.S. Her parents’ careers in landscape design and residential custom home construction inspired Renee to pursue a future that would similarly combine the fields of art, science, and design. Renee's interest in design and nature began at a very young age in central Alabama, where she spent countless hours building forts in the woods behind her home.
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