work trade in the Seattle Area?

Hi folks,

I 've recently moved into a new rental home where the landlord has given me free reign to renovate the yard. It's currently an overgrown mess of old ornamentals, un-cared for fruit and nut trees, and the ever present english ivy.

I'm studying restoration horticulture and taking a PDC course, but have no previous background with gardening and I'm feeling a bit over-whelmed with how to tackle this yard.  I want to put in more edibles, while maintaining a nice aesthetic for the landlords. If I was starting from scratch it would be fine, but trying to take an already established garden and re-direct it towards something more beneficial to my family and I is just a bit more complicated.

I am a decent restoration horticulturalist with experience with native plantings, soil stabilization, habitat creation, and riparian repair. Sadly, those skills don't help me much with an urban edible/ornamental garden.  I am trained with the base horticultural skills of pruning, propagation, planting techniques, and the like so I do have the right "tools" to do the work, I just lack the experience with these plant types.

Need extra trained hands on a project? Want to create native habitat on your property? Want to attract specific native birds or insects to your yard? These are things I know how to do and would happily trade that kind of work for help with solving how to turn my yard into an abundant food garden.

I also have other tradeable skills on the table, such as mead crafting, sourdough baking, and computer repair skills. I'd be happy trading work in any of these areas for some edible gardening consulting.