Our family moved to Mazama in 1976 and into the “Old Farm House”. Here we raised chickens, goats, fresh vegetables and cooked them all on the farm house original wood cook stove! My first paid job was weeding our neighbor’s garden (and of course mom’s) and helping harvest the vegetables for the winter.
Gardening took a different turn when I was introduced to my Great Grandmother Harriet Knudsen’s achievement as creator and curator of the Lincoln Memorial Gardens in Springfield, Illinois.
After being accepted to Cal Berkley on a rowing scholarship, I became interested in city planning and landscape architecture, sparked by Jen Jensen’s and Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence on Great Grandmother’s Lincoln Memorial Gardens.
Dr. and Mrs. Knudsen with Jens Jensens
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After graduating from the University of California in 1990, I took a break from the west and traveled to Micronesia, accepting a position with the Republic of Palau’s national college as athletic director. It was here I met my wife Jennifer Wasisang and my family life began.
In 1995 we moved back to the “Valley”, where our first child Korrie was born, and began niching out a life for our new family.
After working in the construction industry for a number of years, it became apparent that fires were increasingly a part of valley life. In response, I trained as a wildland firefighter and started a fire crew transportation company in 2003.
In 2009 Goat Wall Landscaping was born. Soon after, our family expanded with Aurora born in 2010 and Khol in 2012.
Goat Wall Landscaping returned me to my roots — I was finally working with my favorite landscape, the Methow Valley!
Scott and Family