Leading With Ecological Resilience
CULTIVATING HEALTHY ECO SYSTEMS THAT ARE SELF SUSTAINING + LOW MAINTENANCE
Site Smart Planting
We select native and climate adapted plants to create ecological relationships within a diverse system that can require less water, create healthy soil for carbon sequestration, and become self sustaining as well as bolster native pollinator and bioregional continuity.
USING REGENERATIVE PRINCIPLES + REGIONALLY ADAPTED DESIGN
Locally Sourced
We lead with regenerative principles and practices that seek to promote system coherence.
We recommend regionally sourced materials to reduce our carbon footprint and to cultivate our other local community based economies.
CONTOUR PLANS, SMART MANAGEMENT + WATER RESOURCE SOLUTIONS
Responsible Water Use
Our designs capture water on site to increase moisture retention, to balance dispersal, to supercharge soil, recharge groundwater, reduce flooding, and keep pollutants out of local waterways.
Why Are We Passionate About Transitioning From Landscaping Into The Regenerative Space?
Here Is An Honest Look At Community Values As Reflected In:
(A) Our Understanding of Our Relationship With Nature
(B) A Habitual Narrative That Overlooks the True Spectrum of Our Interconnected Economies + Ability To Thrive
(C) The Importance (and Right Timing) of Starting New Conversations
OUT WITH THE OLD While we no longer offer our previous Landscaping, Installation, or Maintenance, the following portfolio will give you an idea of a few key sustainable projects we are proud to have completed leading up to our current evolution into the Regenerative Design + Agriculture and Educational space.
IN WITH THE NEW We are grateful to recognize that everything we have learned during our time in the landscape industry over the past decade has laid fertile groundwork for what it takes to engage the necessary conversations within our current community that are needed to open doors for new solutions, and to open the windows for the fresh air of understanding something from a new level of wholeness… What we are seeing happen in our yards, our community, and globally, is a collective recognition that what is needed in the property management and maintenance sector is not just ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ (washed), but truly grounded, able to regenerate because of alignment with Nature’s Patterns (aka Regenerative Design) — and in a way that simultaneously supports our goals from the ground up.
We are ripe for adopting a new perspective that defines how we live and grow with the land we steward and how it is a mutually supportive ongoing relationship of interwoven social, ecological, and technological economies.
Join us as we explore more in service of demonstrating much needed changes, as we continue to share how you too can stay informed, take new actions, and make a healthier impact.
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Stewarding Our Land
Our clients, like us, see themselves as stewards, change makers, and leaders in a society that is awakening to itself and to its true nature.
We understand that as homeowners the value of what we say we own isn’t confined to the imported materials that form the structures we live in, but in fact has deeper roots in the land on which we live. In fact, the real value is already present in the soil, and in the water that flows through our property, in the fresh air we breathe, and in the solar or electric elements, aka the terrestrial magnetics, that activate the inherent life force in all living things to align, to shine, and grow.
Even on a suburban plot in a neighborhood, we recognize conceptually that the health of the ecology of our property and the natural bioregion in which it is situated is equal to our own health and the health of every living thing. That there is a connection is acceptable. What that connection is, and how it works, is perhaps simpler than we imagine, and yet it is responsible for the myriad life on this planet all keeping balance even during transitions.
To support our growing awarness and desire to make healthy change possible, even in your yard, Rebecca’s Gardens offers Regenerative Design for property and land owners. We also offer a trademark new Certification Program for Realtors, Designers, and Architects that provides you with the principles for holistically valuing the land from a whole new vantage point. Follow along with our industry leading Green Checklist that redefines how we assess and value property. Any group who cares about the effects of establishing a healthy environment and the various currencies and benefits that generates can benefit from this series. Because of this deep recognition and desire to do our part to understand and efficiently maintain the health of the larger system that supports us, our approach uses native, permaculture-based, and regenerative landscape practices such as…
CHAMPIONING BIODIVERISTY + POLLINATORS
Habitat Supporting
We promote native and keystone plants to support biodiversity, strengthen ecosystem resilience, even fortify wildlife corridors.
BALANCING GROUNDCOVER TO OVERSTORY
Energy Efficient
Our designs use select tree canopy, mid level, and ground level plantings to create a living ecosystem that works to rebalance systemic energy efficiency and can offset home energy consumption.
SOURCING NATURAL + SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Sustainably Grown
We recommend outdoor [FSC-approved] wood to support sustainable forest management practices, recycled plastics that keep our oceans clean, and quality products to decrease consumption or waste
We invest in soil, native plants, and the greater systemic health of our local for core abundance through observation and understanding
rather than isolated panaceas or products for symptom suppression. We actively seek out new ways to creatively solve perceived issues that benefit all involved through win-win and multiple yields where possible. We are open to changing our localized perception in support of understanding nature’s more contextualized plan when necessary. We do this by observing what these scalable processes provide and take new and deliberate action to support our goals through understanding and aligning with natural processes, in the process hopefully demonstrating what Nikola Tesla famously described as ‘hitching our mechanisms to the wheelhouse of nature’.
We provide services, tools, education, wisdom, experience, and support for everyone who is willing to take their next steps in creating a regenerative garden or landscape, and to call themselves a steward of nature’s process.
We engage what’s possible with each client and property though inspiration and experience. We build trust among likeminded community and offer our wisdom for those who are ready to learn and integrate what we have to offer. We acknowledge it is not our responsibility to shift the values others hold dear, it is our gift to demonstrate our values clearly enough to make sense to those who wish to align themselves with even greater coherence.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
To achieve your goal, our work is based on purpose, passion, and values. We build each beautiful landscape from a foundation for structural integrity and ecological health that supports you at various levels in your enjoyment of sustainable living. We invest in quality relationships and long term vision. We aim to work with nature’s principles to create a functionally beautiful space with unique features and a sense of connection. Interwoven principles, from use-of-space, to biodiversity, are active throughout our design process and applied alongside our targeted methods for best results.
We support a multiple bottom line philosophy, or spectrum of economies that include defining wealth in interconnected sectors such as health, social, emotional, wisdom, ecological, time, and resources, in addition to financial. This values-based perspective provides helpful strategies through which to plan for your ideal life-goals both during the process and when living with the completed project. With your values in mind, we can customize to suit your budget and taste. Small or grand, you're in good hands with Rebecca's Gardens Design.
EXPERIENCE THAT SERVES
We bring industry leading experience to your project. We can provide you with strategic designs and tools to realize your goals, from local planting strategies to a vetted contractor network, or from helpful DIY guidance to nuanced plant or material selections to achieve your goals in harmony with nature’s.
Our work focuses on beauty, ecology, education. We promote awareness of the interconnected life of people and land while serving the needs of both landscape and property management through regenerative solutions.
Make use of our decade-plus experience with horticultural, herbal, and vegetable gardens, soft and hardscapes, soil, irrigation, and microclimate requirements, and local resources. Our offerings come complete with helpful recommendations and continuing care information.
Collectively, we’re of many camps. What it takes is an understanding of systems and context to be able to choose what’s needed and make requests for services that can truly make a significant difference for the health of our ecology and ourselves. It takes an integrated approach at both the individual and the collective level, a meeting of both human interest and ecological benefit, to see these much needed changes gain the momentum to heal what’s broken. The time is now.
Our lives are intertwined with nature but our attention has been diverted from it. Nature is not something that only moves slowly in the background or that constantly overgrows or causes disruption, fueling further fear, domination through overuse, or chemical warfare against it. That is human belief and/or collective emotional vibration projected back at us to wake us up to our own responsibilities toward right relationship with our values, the effects of our values in the economy, and how we value our relationship with Nature, not just as ‘natural resources’ but as our profound gratitude for the mighty magic that life consistently unfolds season after season, providing us with more than we need, when we realize the value we’re living on. There are many natural processes we have been misled about, have been blinded to, or are misinterpreting that can easily be redirected and seen as beneficial while solving our perceived issue in the process. Our health and sanity are intricately interwoven into this analogy.
We are each called now to change some habits in favor of starting new ones. Perhaps we’ve become accustomed to ignoring what we know should be the better way due to financial, marketplace, political, social or other events taking our attention and making life seem as if it can only happen ‘when other things fall into place’. Well the time for action is always and forever only in the present moment. And now is the time to begin to engage new or group efforts at building a more regenerative lifestyle so that our successes can be shared and amplified. Start today. Email a friend or colleague. Make that small step. Then another. Be a part of the new momentum.
With simple cost effective biodiverse choices, and new property planning, our yards and our ecological neighborhoods can easily thrive anew. Habits and structures that have kept our attention on fear and scarcity may have slowed us from growing into our birthright as a self-aware and grateful species through generosity, community, and ecological coherence, but we’re waking up to that again and doing things differently. Rebecca’s Gardens is here to help you thrive…
EVOLVING WITH YOUR DESIGN
Rebecca’s Gardens champions your creative choice as the next step in your environment. Our understanding of ecology and socio-cultural systems gives you fresh perspective. Our experience gives you solid options to achieve your goals. Our passion gives you inspiration. Our relational values highlight new opportunities to help broaden your understanding of how both you and ecology can benefit. We and many others are here to collaborate as we each awaken to our true Nature.
A Flowering of Ecology and Humanity
NURTURING YOUR INNER + OUTER NATURE
Humans, and all living things, are directly influenced by our natural environment. It’s a symbiotic relationship that we are each aware of to varying degrees. So why are we trained to think of nature as an inert backdrop to our lives, with quaint seasonal cycles that we reference only in relation to our schedules? Why do we feel so separate from the land we traverse daily, or think we are that collectively separate, whether from the trees outside our home or from the disasters happening around the globe?
Why is it that we feel compelled to continue the ancestral habit of blindly dominating our environment, unknowingly causing costly or unidentified disturbances that could easily be avoided, rather that seeing the value in working with it more efficiently and meaningfully while meeting our needs? For both are entirely possible, and we have the technology and the interest to do so en masse. So why the delay?
We have to understand that in many ways, we are a part of Nature herself. We are active noospheric co-creators and dreamers of reality, not only passive perceivers. Our evolved natural and heartfelt response now to all that is coming to light must be to attend to our relations, with ourselves, with each other, and with our environments, to take fresh interest in and respond with life giving solutions — to lend a hand toward reestablishing nature’s most efficient systems of holistic processes that can work symbiotically with technological advancements if we cultivate the values to align it that way. When we do this in our own backyards, we realize we are connected around the world. Together we can harvest the benefits rather than weather the wars. As Nikola Tesla famously mused, “It is a mere question of time when humans will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.” He speaks of the toroidal movement of infinite energy often depicted as nested sacred geometry as it manifests at every scale throughout life. This infinite scaleability is the most efficient use of energy or life force in existence, and we are made of it.
What’s our takeaway? Nature speaks to us and through us from our environment every day. Start paying attention and asking how we can cultivate a mutually beneficial lifestyle as we walk out the door. Be open to solving your needs and desires through green solutions. It’s time to receive more value than you we’ve been told exists in the typical scarcity mindset and begin to create ideas of what to do with the surpluses you discover. You don’t even need to become a hippy to live in regenerative efficiency.
How You Relate To Your Property Is A Key Part Of The Changes Happening Today
In the big picture, 2023 has become a tipping point in terms of the way things have been done or the way we as a community and as a society have been conditioned to believe they are done. This is true in many industries and communities around the globe.
Change is here whether we acknowledge it or not. It’s up to us to catch this wave, or be dragged along by it. Rebecca’s Gardens believes it’s up to each of us to co-create the garden designs, the local opportunities, the networks, and new media that will demonstrate what we believe is worth broadcasting and giving our attention and consciousness toward.
It’s no surprise that the larger environment is seeing extremes and catastrophes that are also mirroring unparalleled human stress and division. And we are stepping up as best we can. You can read about how some are addressing the drought to the Colorado river basin from 2022.
Now closer to home, with respect to sub/urban landscaping, gardening, and especially in agriculture or wild land management, this year is the time to be willing to reeducate ourselves on exactly how we value what we have and how we can align with regenerative actions that truly make a difference within the natural systems and resources that sustain our health and pscho-social balance, as well as our land, and interconnected communities…
Rather than continuing to take for granted our property’s landscape as a passive backdrop to the market value of the house materials and neighborhood, we must outgrow that stagnant lesson with its constipated results on our health, homeowner responsibilities, and mental stress. For a healthier happier life, we are now invited to truly begin to understand and to raise our valuation of both our property’s local natural resources, as well as how our property reflects being in balance with the larger ecological context in which it is situated. Learning how to upvalue our property to include nurturing land and water use changes the game. It refreshes our sense of connection to our land and strengthens our sense of balance, health, and community. This change of attitude puts us at the forefront of a beautiful new synergistic demonstration of ecology and social standard that is in sync with nature’s expression for our high alpine zone.
There are many ways to do this, and we are achieving this both as individuals and as groups in our neighborhoods. And we are partnering with like minded groups around the globe. As larger systems based on old thought begin to give way to new challenges and opportunities, we begin to realize the power of community creativity that is changing our world for the better — one project at a time.
How do such ecological values fit into the current marketplace? They aren’t supposed to. Rather, with this change of attitude, we realize that we are actually responsible for supra-fitting our socially-defined marketplace values to integrate and support more of nature’s local ecology, thus redefining ‘current marketplace values or trends’. Creating a movement toward more balanced and multifaceted economics in the eyes of the market happens with a shift in homeowners and realtor’s (aka community) values, something that is happening in our community as we speak. Each one of us is poised to make that shift. And each year we are closer to the momentous tipping point for positive growth, around which movements really make a difference, with enough social momentum to become a new regenerative standard in support of values like the health of the soil, water and micro-climate management, native species, diversity, pollinators, personal use, personal health, beauty, and integration that defines ecology as part of the intrinsic value of our health and our community.
Achieving this isn’t as much an asterisk or a benefit accessible from the % return on our property assets as it is the new bottom line that gives back to us exponentially more than what we have invested, starting with our very survival, our personal and communal health, and our raison d’etre aka joy of living — and growing to include unique surpluses, abundance, and sharing that our communities are desperate for both emotionally and resourcefully. This mirrors the very definition of permaculture according to its founder Bill Mollison, which is that it is a conscious system between humans and nature’s patterns, a system that produces more energy and value than what it takes to create it. So this shift in perspective and valuation opens the door to considering new integrated approaches, ones that introduces greater alignment with our way of daily living, based on modern technologies that can operate in symbiosis with the organic systems of which we are a living part.
Rebecca’s Gardens is dedicated to helping you become more aware of your valuable and magical link with nature starting from the land on which you live, work, play, and grow. If your work places you in front of the computer for hours a day, it’s essential to reestablish your natural grounding, which will in turn help your health, state of mind, productivity and enjoyment of life. Through our designs, practices, education, collaboration, donation, and more, we help you get started. Join us as we take action this year to help uplift awareness in individuals and the social collective for an advanced cleaner happier more loving and interconnected green future. We hope you’ll join us!
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Biodiversity Is The Best Value
HOMEOWNERS We specialize in native landscape care and cultivation that increases the value of your property by increasing the health of the land and soil as well as the aesthetics. Ask us for details.
• Increase garden health with a balance in the biodiversity of your soil to create synergy with essential nutrients, minerals, microorganisms, humus, compost, mycorrhisa.
• Plant kinship species that help each other grow, such as vegetable, flower, or tree guilds, and attract pollinators.
• Build soil structure to increase root health, balance moisture, aeration, and create best conditions for your microclimate.
• Balance over-story (trees), under-story (shrubs), and ground cover for a healthier range of flora and more efficient use of space.
BRINGING HUMANITY + ECOLOGY TOGETHER
Design Experience Tailored for the Front Range
Rebecca and her trusted team members have lived and worked in the Boulder area since 1999, and many are Colorado natives. Our collective decades of experience provide you with homegrown landscape and garden care specific to the Front Range. We know what works best, we can recommend local plant species, and are knowledgable as far as supporting unique solutions for your soil, plants, trees, irrigation, landscapes, with practical design options that feature the best of our high altitude ecology.
Rebalancing Ecology + Suburban Alpine Living
We use organic and permaculture principles in everything we design. We offer rEvolutionary™ design to take you from a nebulous desire to a clear design and scheduled plan of action. What’s more, each of our specialists and tea members are professionally and philosophically aligned with nourishing our environment while providing you with top-notch native, suburban, and agricultural landscape solutions. We have experience you can rely on, go-to plants, materials, products, or people we can recommend, and win-win solutions that both respect and upgrade your property value and relationship to the landscape you call home.
Community Enrichment Through Social Resources
Our service and location provides natural community enrichment. By working with neighborhood clients and vendors, we exemplify a circular positive regenerative future of communities, ecologies, and economies. The principles we live by and demonstrate daily cultivate much-needed education, vision, service, and solution right here where we all call home. Our hearts, our values, our work and our dollars are invested locally. Healthy, trustable community connections and resources that you can grow with are good for us all.
