Eco Echo Studio is an independent, small, woman-owned, Atlanta-based business that works in service to the incredible biodiversity and cultures of the Outer Piedmont of the Southeast, echoing ecology and fostering connection. We design our projects from the ground up, according to the unique characteristics of each site and our clients’ needs. We believe that every project can have a positive impact that reaches far beyond its borders, on its inhabitants, visitors, neighbors, broader ecological communities, and watershed.
Putting the right plant in the right place and designing for stormwater translates to lower maintenance, fewer demands on resources, and increased resilience. We don’t plant species that are categorized as invasive because, but we’re not native purists either. Our designs tend to include 80-100% eco-regional natives. Sustainability and client success are our priorities, especially when designing with fruit, herbs, and vegetables. We also try to use or repurpose existing materials onsite as much as possible.
Because we value ecology, we will educate some during our time with clients, but we don’t judge. Everyone is learning and everyone gets to learn. With love to our grandparents’ gardens, we design in ways that rise to the challenges we face today and give us hope for a biodiverse and beautiful future.
Our typical service range includes the cities of Atlanta, Hapeville, East Point, College Park, and Decatur, but we are happy to travel beyond that if compensated.
Alex Lampert is an ecological landscape designer, born and raised in Atlanta with a dozen years lived elsewhere. She grew up playing in creeks that fed the Chattahoochee, making art, and building worlds for salamanders and frogs. In her early career, an interest in landscape design at the intersection of urbanism, agriculture, and art led her to sustainable food systems. She worked for local food nonprofits and supply chains and as a chef for over a decade, all while finding ways to keep her hands in the dirt, growing food. The onset of a chronic illness pulled her out of kitchens and forced her to rethink her career. The landscape had never lost its pull, but as she learned about ecological relationships between native plants and wildlife, she knew the path forward had to be founded in those relationships and rigorously scientific.
All of these experiences informed a deep sense of hospitality that grew, extended into the natural world, and now shapes how she develops sensory experiences, layers textures, and crafts resilient landscapes that nourish people, wildlife, and the land.
Credentials
Currently working on UGA’s Certificate in Native Plants (2026)
Clemson Extension Master Rain Gardener, 2026
Fundamentals of Stormwater Design, NCSU Continuing Education (Engineering), 2025
Ecology Based Landscape Practice, New Directions in the American Landscape, 2024
Gardenary Certified Garden Consultant, 2024
Residential Landscape Design, Emory Continuing Education, 2022
Master’s in Food Studies, NYU, 2013
Permaculture Design Certificate, Urban Permaculture Institute, 2010
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