Our Founders

Carolle Huber    contact me

As a landscape architect, Carolle has been designing landscapes for 20 years, working on large developments, subdivisions, wetlands restoration, green roofs, and residential design. These days, she gravitates toward residential design and green projects, with the goal of creating beauty and inspiring awe, while doing the right thing for the environment. 

As an environmentalist, it is important to her that our landscapes are environmentally sustainable, and will cause no harm to future generations.  Carolle’s landscapes have always been "green", and now with the increased interest in responsibility to our Earth, her clients are reflecting her beliefs.  There are many ways to be ecologically sensitive, such as eliminating exotic invasive plants from our design vocabulary, installing rain gardens to clean runoff before it reaches the storm drains, capturing rainwater to irrigate gardens, and minimizing our carbon footprint by using local materials.

As a long time resident of Morristown, Carolle has been an neighborhood activist.  She was instrumental in starting a neighborhood association and  is always keeping neighbors informed about what is before the Town Council, Planning Board and Board of Adjustment, and advocating action when necessary, all with the goal of keeping our neighborhoods intact and vital.  Carolle is an active gardener, bicyclist and yogi, and loves hiking in the Catskills.

Myra Bowie McCready    contact me

Myra Bowie McCready has been a Production Manager in the theatrical entertainment business for over 25 years.  She has worked in both the non-profit and commercial sectors of the business.  Her career spans both coasts having worked and lived in Los Angeles, Chicago and NYC.  During her theater career, she has always tried to find a way to keep a garden.  She was active in community gardens in both Los Angeles and in NYC.  Now retired and living in Morristown, NJ  she currently is a Board Member of Historic Speedwell (Home of the Telegraph and a National Historic Treasure) and is an active community volunteer in her neighborhood in Morristown (Cutler Park).  Her volunteer efforts were recently rewarded when the Willow Hall mansion in Morristown was saved (now the home of the Passaic River Coalition) and it’s property of 6 1/2 acres of undeveloped land became permanently preserved as open space.   She is currently completing her BFA degree at Montclair State University and has her own pottery business called My’s Pots.  Her passion for gardens and open space have made working on  Grow It Green Morristown an exciting new adventure.   

Samantha Rothman    contact me

Samantha grew up in between landscapes; having a father from Brooklyn and a mother from a rural farm community in Kansas translated into understanding both the people and lands of two seemingly different worlds.  The wide open spaces of prairie, contrasted with the deep forests of the mid-Atlantic both influenced Samantha’s career path.  After studying plant ecology at Smith College, she went on to work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service before entering graduate school at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.  While at Yale, Samantha’s work focused on the ecology of southern New England forests. Believing that environmental conservation can be - and should be - ecologically, economically, and sociologically sustainable, her research sought ways to limit forest fragmentation and the conversion of forest land into suburban sprawl by utilizing silvicultural paradigms that integrated value-added products into forest operations, resulting in higher profits for landowners, while simultaneously creating a more ecological diverse landscape. Through working as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Yale School Forest Program, Samantha realized that working with people and plants, together, was far better than working alone in the woods.  After completing her graduate education, she returned home to Morristown where started her own environmental consulting firm.  She is an active participant in her neighborhood association and serves on the Town of Morristown Environmental Commission.