Mike Pon grew up on a farm in Saratoga, CA where he followed his father around the family apricot orchard. It was there where Mike fell in love with farming and agriculture and led him to earn a Landscape Architect Degree at the University of California, Davis in 1992.
Mike began his career as a Design Associate at JMP Golf Design group, practicing Golf Course Architecture. After nearly a decade with JMP, Mike moved on to SWA in Sausalito, where he practiced Land Planning, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design on 6 continents (North, Central and South America, Middle East, Asia and Australia) and has worked on numerous residential projects – both small and large.
In 2013 Mike Pon started Mike Pon Consulting, where his focus is to support others to be stewards of their environment.