About Us
Ron Vogl
Ron is the owner of the Mystic Edge Garden. He has been here since 1986 building the garden from the ground up. His entire collection of plants and art is entirely unique to his life experiences. He loves sharing the garden, and all of the love here with everyone. Every little thing has a story and a purpose.
Steph
Steph is the garden‘s job security. She makes sure everything and everyone is taken care of. She loves spending time with the torts and showing our guests around the garden. You will likely find her in the turtle dome or sharing unique facts about the garden.
Jaimie
Jamie is the primary garden steward. He helps Ron by keeping up with the plants and feeding all of the garden guardians such as the torts and dogs . You will likely see Jamie greeting you when you arrive at the garden.
Kathi
Our original garden guardians Kathi, Raider and Ruby. The entire garden was inspired by Kathi, Ron’s beloved wife. She filled the garden with so much love. She is no longer with us in the physical, however her spirit lives on in the garden forever!
Jen
Jennifer, is one of the fairy guardians. You will catch her running around helping out with any and all garden duties. She is a multi-instrumentalist, photographer and plant-based chef. She shares her medicine through food, art, music, and through her love for nature.
Madi
Madison is one of our fairy guardians of the garden. She helps with garden duties and loves telling stories about the garden. She is a sound healer and an amazing artist.. You will find alot of her work hanging around the garden. You will likely find Madi weaving something, frolicking around, or making connections.
The guardians of the garden
Kato
Marley
Kato
Kato is a chocolate lab who is the un-official greeting mascot. You have to pass the sniff test with him. Or he will call his buddies for backup.
Max
Marley
Kato
Max is a Siberian husky. Which is the closest breed to a pure wolf. He is the head of the pack here and in charge of secret internal intelligence.
Marley
Marley
Marley
Marley is a lovable rottweilier unless you have bad intentions. He is the panzer division of the MEG.
Congo
The Torts
Marley
Congo is a 280 million year old product of his ancestors. He is an African sulcata. He is 33 years old and acts likes 2. He’s destructive but lovable. He loves tree stars, fruits and toes. Be careful.
The Torts
The Torts
The Torts
The Torts are a mix of cherry heads and red foots. The first of our tortoise to lay eggs at the MEG.
Koi Fish
The Torts
The Torts
The Koi fish were put here for a very intentional purpose. Eye candy. We love their vibrant colors. They bring peace to the garden with their gentle nature. The koi pond has a self sustained system and we use the water from the pond to feed our plants, providing a front row seat to our personal ecosystem!
Boo-boo
Boo-boo
Boo-boo
Boo-Boo is an Indian star tortoise. We think he a hybrid of a radiated.
Yogi
Boo-boo
Boo-boo
Yogi is an Indian star tortoise. He may expose himself to you. He is very expressive and loves crawling on the turf.
Tars
Boo-boo
Tars
Tars is an Aldabra Tortoise. He is the second largest tortoise species in the world from the Seychelles islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean. He is our interstellar co pilot. His nickname is also sloth because you can most likely find him sunbathing all day
Cash
Tars
an Aldabra tortoise. He is the second largest tortoise species in the world from the Seychelles islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Cash
Cash
Cash
Cash is a Leopard tortoise . His species is native to the arid savanna’s of Central and Southern Africa. The leopard tortoise is the 4th largest tort after the sulcata.
Cash
Cash
an Aldabra tortoise. He is the second largest tortoise species in the world from the Seychelles islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
The guardians of the garden
The Bee Highway
The Bee Highway
Bees play and essential role in agriculture. 30% of plant crops are pollinated by bees including most of our fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, chocolate and coffee. Farmers rely on bees to provide the best pollination for their companion plants.
The Bee Highway
The Bee Highway
The Bee Highway
The bee highway is the product of an old fence that Ron took elements of to make a bird house which turned into the bee highway. You can watch the bees bring back local pollen from the garden.
The Bee Highway
The bees moved in and never had their honey touched. We love to see them thrive and multiply. The bees are very special to us. We leave them beeee unharmed as they continue their work.