Stefan

Owner

Stefan Grunkemeier grew up in the family landscape business, beginning his training at the young age of 12.

His Father, Brian (Owner of Sunset Landscape & Design), would take Stefan to work with him during the summer months. What started as a way to simply earn some extra spending money developed over time into a passion to create works of art through stone. Taking great pride in his work, Stefan began his apprenticeship with one of the most talented landscape designers in the northwest at that time, Tim Stricker. Early on Tim described him as a “natural”, someone able to look at a landscape, a pile of rocks, and put it all together in a work of art with relative ease.

Stefan founded Simply Rocks in 2005 and worked for 15 years to grow the company into a full service rock yard. In 2020 he placed Willy in charge and moved to Utah with his beautiful wife Rachna, and 3 boys Jaden, Colton and Lawson.