Person Place Thing: Landscape architect Kate Orff 7/7/23

By Tina Renick

Published July 7, 2023 at 10:50 PM EDT

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Landscape architect Kate Orff has learned a lot — about nature, about human behavior, about their intersection. Her hope for the future: “Can we just make better mistakes, can we not make the really, really dumb mistakes.” Orff tells us about Forest Park and a he hori hori knife.

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