About
SEACOAST FOODSCAPES
Our Story
Rethinking the Landscape
Seacoast Foodscapes was founded by Dave Sexton and Sam Breslin, who worked together for years as vineyard managers and winemakers before branching out into the field of edible landscaping. That shared experience, along with their personal backgrounds, shaped how they approach plants, food, and working landscapes. Over the years, it became clear that they were both drawn to similar problems in traditional landscaping, coming at them from complementary perspectives. Dave, drawn to the ecological side of this
work, cares deeply about long‑term land stewardship and how landscapes function as systems. Sam, drawn to food, is focused on the experience of growing it, cooking it, and eating what comes from the landscape. While working together at the vineyard, those perspectives consistently overlapped in conversations about how often traditional landscapes separate beauty, ecology, and food instead of integrating them.
Edible landscaping felt like the natural answer. They believe that when people grow their own food, they cultivate more than just plants—they cultivate independence, knowledge, health, and a more sustainable way of living. Today, that idea still drives their work: creating landscapes that are thoughtful, productive, and rooted in the simple value of growing and enjoying real food.
Between them, they bring decades of combined experience across landscaping, agriculture, and food systems. This includes hands‑on landscape installation, vegetable production, vineyard management, and years of working directly with plants, soil, and food and beverage production systems. Dave is also an accredited Organic Landcare professional, bringing a strong foundation in ecological design and soil health to every project. Together, their work blends practical landscaping experience with agricultural knowledge and a shared focus on edible, functional landscapes that actually perform over time.
The Team
Local Guys, Passionate About Locally Grown Food
Working alongside his father in the family landscaping business in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Dave developed a passion for plants and gained valuable hands-on skills from an early age. He went on to study Sustainable Landscape Horticulture at the University of Vermont, gaining further experience as an installer for Gardener’s Supply Co. After graduating, he spent 13 years as a winemaker and vineyard manager before returning to his true passion—ecological landscaping and growing
food. Dave and his wife, Sarah, live in Newmarket, NH where they hand-built their home nail by nail. They have since cultivated a thriving homestead filled with fruit trees, berries, raised beds, chickens, and a small schoolhouse!
Sam, although he hates to admit it now, was the classic picky eater as a kid. That all changed when he took a job at a plant nursery in high school, where his exposure to gardening grew and his connection to food began to shift. An interest turned into a passion and he went on to earn a BS from the University of New Hampshire in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems. After graduating, he accepted a job working alongside Dave as a vineyard manager and winemaker for several years before they went on to launch Seacoast Foodscapes together. Today, Sam resides in Newmarket, NH, with his wife, Emily, and their pup, Remi, and spends much of his free time cooking, experimenting in the kitchen, and sharing food!