Our Team & Stewards

The people cultivating habitat, education, and community connection.

Advisory Board

Inge Morrison

President Inge Morrison has been a close friend of Charlotte’s for 35 years. After spending several years in the Middle East with her daughter and husband, she returned to California to pursue her college studies and run a small business. Following that, she spent 30 years in small and large financial institutions, such as Sutro and Merrill Lynch, before retiring as a Director. She loves walking the trails of Marin and identifying plants and birds with others who enjoy nature. She has always been in awe of Charlotte’s abiding love for and extensive knowledge of native plants and habitats, and the enthusiasm and energy she exerts to preserve and promote them. She looks forward to applying her energy and business acumen for the benefit of Home Ground.

Charlotte Torgovitsky

Founder Charlotte Torgovitsky has been a gardener and lover of plants for most of her life. She always needs to be growing something, no matter what else is going on in her life. Her passion became a vocation in 2001 when she became the Garden Education Manager and Volunteer Coordinator at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross, a job she created and held for 8 years. This led to careers as a garden educator, native plant propagator, landscape consultant, author, and local environmental leader. She has become known in Marin County for her knowledge of native plants and butterflies and her willingness to share her knowledge with others interested in learning. She founded Home Ground Habitats in 2011 as a native plant nursery and educational facility, a model of social enterprise with a local focus, where volunteers propagate both plants and ideas for a new paradigm in home landscaping.

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Nursery Staff

Alan Good

Facilities Manager Alan Good is a native plant horticulturalist and water-efficient residential garden designer. Alan studied landscape horticulture at Merritt College in Oakland, and has a BA from San Francisco State University. He owns Oak Hill Garden Design, and his practice has been enriched by extensive experience managing and developing large landscapes. Alan was Landscape Manager at Marin Art and Garden Center from 2005 to 2008 before his notable six-year leadership of the Landscape Exhibits Department at the California Academy of Sciences. While there, Alan established the plantings for the iconic 2.5-acre living roof, developing it from the original four species to over one hundred species of native plants. The roof environment was expanded to include beekeeping, honey production and habitat for California native pollinators and birds. Alan brings his knowledge of water conservation, soil management, and edible and native plant-based design to enrich Home Ground.

Audrey Fusco

Audrey Fusco is the Assistant to the Executive Director and the Director of Adult Programs/Volunteer Coordinator at Home Ground Habitats. A Restoration Ecologist with extensive experience in California native plants, propagation, volunteer coordination, habitat restoration, and environmental education, she co-founded the Bringing Nature to School Program with Charlotte Torgovitsky and has collaborated with Home Ground Habitats for many years. Audrey also works in Western monarch and pollinator conservation and serves on the Boards of the Marin Monarch Working Group, the West Marin Monarch Sanctuary, and Home Ground Habitats. Her previous roles include Restoration Ecologist and Native Plant Nursery Manager at SPAWN, as well as supporting riparian restoration projects at Green Gulch Farm. Audrey continues to play an essential supporting role across Home Ground Habitats’ programs and initiatives.