How contour swales slow down water runoff, encourage infiltration, and reduce erosion, thus enhancing water retention and distribution across the landscape.

Soil profiles change depending on your climate. However, there is a vital exchange between plants and fungi, bacteria, and other organisms in any soil type. Building soil through the addition of organic matter has numerous impacts on your garden and beyond. It is said that pre-colonization, the eastern US had upward of 14 FEET of […]

“A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.” – Wendell Berry

We often talk with our client community about how to manage pests, about how these little creatures devour garden veggies, or creep onto paths, or take over a patch of a backyard oasis.

Mushroom season is almost here! And whether it’s with inoculated logs or bags of sawdust substrate, there are a number of ways you can grow them in your very own backyard, or even inside your home.