Hannah Brook Smith

Full Time Graduate Student

Landscaper + Designer + Nursery Apprentice

Master's of Landscape Architecture Program

SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY

2025-2026 | 3rd and final year

Personal | hannahbrooksmith@gmail.com

School | hsmith51@syr.edu

Favorite Shrub

Baptisia australis - False Indigo

Favorite Tree

Cercidiphyllum japonicum - Katsura

Favorite quote

How you do one thing, is how you do everything.

FIRED UP FOR
POSITIVE CHANGE

*Photo by Hannah B. Smith

Hermon, New York

Summer 2015 sweat lodge fire ceremony,

intentional fire structure surrounding

the sacred stones to be used in the lodge.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCES

MAY 2025-SEPTEMBER 2025

May 2024 - Current

January 2024-September 2024

2021-2023

MICHAEL GRIMM LANDSCAPING & TREE SERVICES

4196 LAFAYETTE ROAD, JAMESVILLE, NY 13078

315-447-0124 | MICHAELGRIMMSERVICES.COM

POSITION | Garden & General Maintenance Field Crew Member

EXPERIENCES

Field work: On-site commercial and residential property care and maintenance, new plantings, plant removal, tree and shrub trimming, shearing and pruning, mulching, weeding, installation of stone, all elements of maintaining a property minus mowing, hardscaping or tree work.

Design Work: Created residential garden designs and planting palettes for client proposals, created planting plans and precise construction documents to communicate the design for possible building purposes. Programs used: Autocad, Excel.

MORGAN MEILE LANDSCAPES

6278 THOMPSON ROAD, SYRACUSE, NY 13206

315-530-0445 | MORGANMEILE.COM

POSITION | Nursery Apprentice and Salesperson

EXPERIENCES

Nursery work: Maintained nursery grounds, pruning, watering and caring for all plants and trees, worked directly with customers to find the perfect plant(s) for their projects based on specific needs, provide excellence in customer service, share the most up to date and accurate information regarding plant care, plant growth, and plant maintenance, troubleshoot disease and pest issues with customers, work closely to provide the healthiest and most beautiful plants possible.

Design Work: Worked with the garden center manager to create residential garden designs. Sometimes also worked directly with customers at the nursery to sketch out ideas on the spot to generate planting ideas to consider while they browsed our selection of plants. Programs used: Autocad, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop.

CENTER FOR COMMUNTIY DESIGN RESEARCH

SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY

315-470-6500 | ESF.EDU

POSITION | Graduate Research Assistant + Community Facilitator

SUNY ESF - Landscape Architecture Department
Americorps Funded SUNY ESF Research Project

EXPERIENCES

Office Work: Creative project work; graphic design of marketing materials for local events, follow up phone calls and communication with community change makers and leaders to help community to access their projects and goals, produced national conference poster by synthesizing all of the research project information to date for the work already produced and currently underway for the AmeriCorps national conference poster that our group would present in Columbus, OH.

Community Work: Co-facilitated a variety of workshops with local community leaders and members in the Syracuse area to gather information, ideas and projects the community wanted to initiate, advertised and walked door to door to hand out event information and talk to the neighborhoods that would be impacted by some of the community design projects happening, as well as participated in the SMTC Safe Streets project initiative; painting street murals and crosswalks and decorating street corners with native flower pot accents in hopes to slow traffic in neighborhood streets.

"The Mission of the CCDR is to educate students, community leaders and citizens about the value of place and through the shared practices of planning and design. Empowering them to manage and direct change that will lead to sustainable communities. The Center works with state, regional and national organizations and agencies to develop and deliver educational programs and materials. Programs introduce local leaders and community residents to the planning and design process to tackle regionally specific issues and opportunities through hands on workshop projects. design literacy, leadership development, communication strategies and organizational capacity.

CCDR is dedicated to...

Helping communities address difficult environmental and social conditions through community based physical design and planning
Developing civic capacity to manage sustainable communities
Increasing community access to resources and information
Identifying/investigating critical issues facing communities, offer solutions
Fostering design literacy and developing public appreciation for the value of design and planning"

ROTOLITE ELLIOTT CORPORATION

1 GROVE STREET, PITTSFORD, NY 14534

585-385-1463 | ROTOLITE ELLIOTT

POSITION | Customer Service Specialist + Brand Ambassasor
Full-time office manager & daily operations

EXPERIENCES

Office work: Managed the main office for Rotolite Elliott, a third generation family owned and operated printing and design service for local builders, contractors, architects, and businesses of all sizes; small and large. I was the main customer interface, managed billing and purchasing of company supplies, fostered an atmosphere of support, compassion and reliability for our team of employees, continued on the Rotolite way with immense dedication to excellence in customer service and experience while providing a high-quality product in a timely manner at a great price.

HONEY BROOK HEALTH

2015-2021

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK + CANTON, NEW YORK

Old Website Logging from 2015-2018 (Link below)

Official company store and services website was deactivated in 2021

Honey Brook Overview Website Link

POSITION | OWNER, OPERATOR, COMPANY FOUNDER

EXPERIENCES

Honey Brook Art and Wellness began in 2015 and evolved into Honey Brook Health by 2021. Honey Brook Health specialized in one of a kind, handcrafted, eco-friendly- health promoting products and services.

HBH started with educational workshops for kids and adults on papermaking, book making and binding, and wood block carving printmaking techniques, in addition to one-of-a-kind wood block carving prints and handmade journals and cards for direct sale.

Upon discovering I had high levels of lead and mercury in 2017, I was on a mission to eliminate as many toxins and chemicals from my life and those in my orbit, as well as customers who would be the recipients of my products. My journals were already adhesive-free, entirely made of natural materials that could be burned and returned to the earth if needed. I was inspired to purchase 50lbs of local beeswax and began making my own hand-crafted, non-toxic, lead-free, pure beeswax candles.

I also created BeeBlaze Firestarters, another non-toxic, eco-friendly product with the cut offs from all other processes within my business, beeswax, shredded paper, wax and thread bits, and wood dust from a local woodworker who made custom wooden lids for my USA made amber glass candle edition.

I sold all of these products directly at events, through local store fronts in Rochester, and online through my company website. I could hardly ever

Eventually, upon earning my health coaching certification in all three life stages through the Dr. Sears Wellness Institute and my RKC Kettlebell certificate through RKC/Dragon Door- I folded health coaching services and strength and conditioning coaching into HBH in addition to the handcrafted, non-toxic products

I worked with countless local businesses, private, public and non-profit. Running my own business for almost six years taught me a lot about design and development, marketing, customer service, determination, passion, and constantly adapting and evolving as I changed and as the world changed with the pandemic and more.