Planting a landscape with native perennials is beautiful, rewarding, and a key to lower maintenance landscaping! Native plants sustain surrounding wildlife and feed the entire food web, including pollinators, birds, and beneficial soil organisms, which create more resilient landscapes. The best reason to plant native-dominant landscapes is the success of these plants in our climate, which in the long run saves our clients money while inviting nature back into our gardens and our lives, making our homes, habitats. Read more about organic lawns and meadows…

We are one of the oldest edible landscaping companies in the country, and are leaders in creating sustainable, beautiful, and prolific edible landscapes. Our gardens simultaneously grow vegetables, fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs and perennial flowers which regenerate the soul and the land. Our landscapes capture and store rainwater, build soil, and provide nectar and habitat for beneficial insects and animals. They create abundance for both human communities and the environments they’re tied to. Whether you have 10 acres, a city lot, or a prospective community garden site, we can help you to achieve your goals.

Rain gardens are powerful tools that can solve multiple issues while greatly enhancing the overall landscape and protecting your watershed. The typical residential home’s roof is around 1500 square feet, shedding almost 150,000 gallons of stormwater in a typical year! Most of the time, this water is simply redirected away from the house, often directly to your neighbor’s house or directly overwhelming stormwater sytems. Usually in just 100 square feet (10x10), we can take nearly all of this stormwater into a beautiful and extremely low-maintenance rain garden. Rain gardens are planted with a host of beautiful native perennials and even some edible fruits. Read more...

We use natural stone to create patios that look like you just stumbled upon an ancient druid temple during a walk in the woods! Our patios enhance outdoor living spaces and provide an anchor for our landscapes. Our site prep is calculated and thorough, and each patio is unique, tailored to the client. Because our patios are non-mortared, they allow stormwater to sink and flow through the landscape more easily, enhancing rather than complicating existing drainage patterns. And we surround our patios with low-growing plants so that people can truly feel a part of nature while relaxing. Click for more images of stonework.

Irrigation need not be a perpetual part of your landscaping budget. We can turn stormwater problems into stormwater solutions. In addition to rain gardens, our approach is to ‘plant the rain’ through light grading, earthworks, swales, dry creeks, rain gardens, and even ponds. Rainwater is the best fertilizer for whole landscapes and individual plants. By working with existing topography and land contours, we can transform erosion, pooling, and flooding into ecological site features that enhance the entire landscape and beyond.

Over the years we have partnered with many community groups and several municipalities to implement larger scale mini-orchards, pollinator habitat, community gardens, educational and demonstration gardens, community scale food forests, tree plantings, mixed meadows, urban farming, and more! Some of the great organizations that we have worked with over the years include: Carrboro Community Garden, Anatoth Community Garden, City of Durham Parks and Recreation, Town of Cary, Holton Recreation Center, Durham Food Co-Op, and many more. We work with project leads, city managers, community groups, schools, non-profits, and others to create ecological landscapes that are beautiful, lower-maintenance, and abundant.

Since our move to a rural area in 2021 we’ve had the good fortune to design and implement scaled up versions of ‘Bountiful Backyards’, and we’re ready to share this with both aspiring and experienced growers! Our talented team of farmers has many decades of hard won farming success in the Piedmont. Whether you are looking to start a ½ acre homestead or develop 5 acres into a small organic farm, our team has the practical skills and knowledge to help you avoid costly mistakes. We can expedite your goals and vision into practical, achievable, and abundant reality. 

Our collaborative work together has been featured at the CFSA Conference and Farm Tour, CCCC Sustainable Agriculture program, and more. Read more…