Confluence Habitats strives to provide excellent customer service and communication, while focusing on high-quality, long-lasting solutions to meet our client's goals. We design and install attractive landscapes & living spaces that foster connection between people and the spaces they inhabit. We build landscapes that are beneficial for humans, animals, plants and essential pollinators.
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chris olliges
Chris brings more than a decade of construction and regenerative farming experience to Confluence Habitats. Although not born with a tool in his hand, from a young age Chris nurtured his passion for gardening and building. At age 10 he built his first backyard ecosystem pond, and the same year won first prize (in his age group) at the KY state fair for the largest pumpkin. In high school, he began his construction career working for his grandfather remodeling homes. Chris rediscovered his passion for agriculture in 2007 at New Roots Urban Farm, located in North St Louis.
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Before founding Confluence Habitats, Chris worked for over eight years as an organic farm inspector traveling the country inspecting more than 200 farms of all sizes, growing nearly every crop imaginable. Currently, Chris is a co-owner of a cooperative farm located in St Louis County. Since 2015, he has worked tirelessly growing vegetables, establishing orchards and hedgerows, and building all sorts of homemade farm contraptions. At Confluence Habitats, Chris applies real world experience he gained while developing the 15-acre farm just south of the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
