Gregory Hahn

I'm Gregory Hahn.

I'm a contributor at Wirecutter, but also a design writer and co-author of three books, the latest with my wife about trees, previously about mushrooms.

I live in Altadena.

we started just having conversations about what we were going through.

I knew so many of my neighbors and people within the community were completely lost.

we really did kind of identify the key points of like, this is what you can do because so much felt like, what do we do?

The year before we found our home, we were hiking the trail.

There's a Gabrielino El Prieto trail.

And I looked up and there was a large sycamore tree branch with a fox on it.

And I was looking and I was like, that's the first time I've seen a California fox out here.

And then I looked to the right on the canyon and there was all these homes lining the canyon.

I was like, I want to live up there one day.

And we were just joking because at that time we didn't have any money.

The first thing that I was like, oh my gosh, I made it in life.

It's a circular driveway.

It's a small one, and it's one that my truck can barely navigate.

But it was really the trees, the oak trees that are surrounding the neighborhood.

They're mature.

They're beautiful.

They're just like, they're part of our home.