About GO NAtive
Elizabeth White Olsen & Glenn Olsen, Co-founders
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GO Native Landscaping, LLC (GO=Glenn Olsen) serves Houston and Southeast Texas with native landscapes. Founded in 2020 by husband-wife team Glenn Olsen and Elizabeth White Olsen, GO Native provides gorgeous native plant landscapes to reconnect you and your family with nature. Creating a diverse habitat on your property supports birds, butterflies, and pollinators and better stores carbon in soil to help slow climate change.
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Glenn Olsen
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Glenn Olsen leads natural history and birding tours with GO Birding Ecotours and teaches bird identification, gardening for birds and butterflies, and nature-related classes through Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, Houston Audubon, and the Texas Master Naturalist program. He serves on the Houston Audubon Board and co-founded the Wildscapes Workshop through the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT), where he served as president of both the Houston Chapter and the State NPSOT. He has led field trips and educational programs for Texas Ornithological Society, Houston Audubon, Houston Arboretum, the Native Plant Society of Texas, Rio Grande Birding Festival, Rockport Hummerbird Festival, Galveston FeatherFest, and other groups. He has served as a native plant consultant for over twenty years.
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Elizabeth White Olsen
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Elizabeth White Olsen is the co-founder of GO Native Landscaping, LLC, along with her husband, Glenn Olsen. Through GO Native’s on-site consultations, custom landscape designs, presentations, and classes, she and her husband have supported hundreds of homeowners, business owners, and municipal and nonprofit employees choose sustainable, bird-and-butterfly-friendly landscapes. She is a certified Texas Master Naturalist and has achieved Native Plant Society of Texas Landscape Certification Levels 1 and 3. Elizabeth holds two Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing degrees. She has published articles on habitat restoration for Houston Chronicle and is the author of the poetry collection, Given Words.
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