HEADWATERS  Landscape Design/Build          

HEADWATERS is a full-service landscape design and construction company providing carpentry, stonework, irrigation, drainage, lighting and garden installation services.  We strive to build gardens and outdoor spaces that invite, inspire and endure, and that are as structurally sound as they are beautiful.  We also work to build equally strong and lasting relationships with our clients, our community and our environment.

HEADWATERS was founded in 2002 by Josh Kemp, who was soon joined by his brother Ian.  The brothers' love for fishing the headwaters of the Sacramento and McCloud rivers gave rise to the name, and these rivers continue to provide inspiration for the manipulation of stone, wood, plants, water and earth in the creation of outdoor spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area.  There is a deep poetry present in the way water moves through forests and over stones.  Through the landscapes we design and install, we try to reproduce the rhythms and harmonies of the natural world, and to create spaces where people will feel as centered and renewed as we feel in rivers.

Josh and Ian grew up in Berkeley, California, have lived from one end of the state to the other, and have travelled the world.  They have loosely followed in the footsteps of their father and uncle, brothers who practiced architecture together in Berkeley for over 25 years.