Our yards aren’t just the places we pass through on the way to the car.
They’re private spaces to connect with nature and remember our relationships with the larger world.
They’re sites of memories: kids playing together, the thrill of a rare wildlife sighting, friends gathered on a patio for good food and good conversation.
They’re high-impact spots where we can choose to contribute to our ecosystems or degrade them.
They’re an extension of our living spaces, with opportunities to socialize, play, grow our own food, and rejuvenate ourselves.
When a landscape is beautifully designed and thoughtfully tailored to its inhabitants and its ecosystem, it becomes a place of refuge and a source of pride.
Take this suburban home in Anderson Township. After a legacy tree had to be removed, sunlight flowed into the yard for the first time, and the family suddenly had the opportunity to grow vegetables and rethink their landscape.
Here’s what it looked like when the Our Land Organics team arrived on the scene:
Before Our Land Organics started work
Then, our team got to work on creating a professionally designed, ecological landscape:
>> We removed an old deck and installed garden beds to unify the area’s disparate elements (patio, shrubs, a massive oak stump).
>> We installed cedar raised vegetable beds (with deer protection), where the clients’ children enjoy learning about plant life cycles and eating fresh vegetables throughout the season.
>> We lined the vegetable garden with pollinator-attracting perennials and native ground covers to support vegetable production while sustaining native pollinators.
>> We created a small dry creek and installed a rain barrel to manage rainwater from multiple downspouts that were draining too close to the home. Excess water now waters the raised beds as well as the native plants framing the dry creek.
>> We laid a flagstone path and brassfield crushed stone pathways to improve flow and make the space highly functional and user-friendly.
Here’s a glimpse at how this landscape transformed:
Our Land Organics transformed this landscape into a functional and harmonious space
You can view more After pictures here.