About 

Michael Kruger is an innovative wood designer who focuses on designs and methods for living a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and regeneration.  Michael is also an educator, teaching people how to successfully grow food by recognizing their unique opportunities for regeneration through connection to the living world and the community of the microbiome that connect us.

Michael has worked in the residential and commercial Millwork and building industry for 35 years.  He has received professional recognition for his leadership skills and is known for his ability to deliver fine quality craftsmanship while blending the needs of clients and the requirements of enterprises.  In 2007 he founded SunPod Designs Greenhouses , an FSC Certified company, to fuse his passion for wood sources and relationship with the living world. His goal was to successfully grow a diverse abundance of food crops in the relatively short growing season in coastal British Columbia. He has developed excellent growing systems that are simple and successful in delivering high quality edible crops both in the regular growing season and in the shoulder seasons in our climate. Michael has maintained his decades long commitment to running garden trials in pursuit of more ways to successfully grow edible food crops in his greenhouse, mini greenhouses, row covers and netted garden structures. The garden trials, also, provide the opportunity to continue to refine his products and increase their life cycle.  These trials include experimentation in different growing conditions, seed sources and varieties, amendments, and fertilization methods.  Michael and SunPod have moved back to Cortes Island BC to work with Cortes Island Community Forests, where he has developed a range of furniture and door designs that are intended to last. 

SunPod Designs and Greenhouses stands apart by achieving design excellence while maintaining a purposeful relationship with the planet and community. We enhance the microbiome, and as a local product manufacturer and educator, we are community-based, utilizing local forestry for our fiber source, ensuring a sustainable and responsible approach.