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10/21/2026

Plastic fiber is not ment for the garden!! Horrible practice please stop. It’s a fad that has to stop, the amount of this I’ve pulled up is maddening.

08/31/2026

Flow in the landscape, begins with the land-shape! Topo maps help us do that!! Our canvas from the beginning.

08/26/2026

When we design for water, we work with rock and Earth. Rock is the ancient container of life. Where the water caught in the stone, life began. when designing for water, we
start with Earth. Water, rain, is the offering nature gives that we gratefully, respectfully, receive.

08/26/2026

Rock armored, Rain catching, dry creek. Bringing healthy water ways back to the built environment. We’ve made this increasingly important “drainage ditch” into a rain slowing and catching creek through this suburban wild lands edge home.

08/05/2026

High up a hill, in late Summer water is paramount for this growing community and garden in Occidental, ca. When the water isn’t running from our 20k gallon rain storage tanks, things get urgent quick. There was a suspicious issue with the pump not receiving water. After some trouble shooting we found this plastic tank label, usually found on the inner lid of the tank, lodged in the pipe. A good reminder to keep those tanks.clean!! Even of random installation labels. Through planned redundancy, the garden was fed by precious groundwater in the mean time, from the low output well which has a history of running dry in this area. Great to revisit thriving garden again, and even better to get it flowing!

06/18/2026

We think tanks are sexy and should be a piece of any Landscape, homestead, or farm. We understand, though that’s not everybody feels the same, that’s why we buried these tanks halfway into a hillside, to hide them, but also feature them. These five 5000 gallon tanks, 25,000 gallons worth, of rain and fog are being caught from nearby, barn, roof, and house, and will be used for all Irrigation, fire security, and crisis prevention for this 9 acre property in far West Sonoma County, with a Pacific Ocean view!

If you’re thinking of water for your property, you won’t regret calling us first for a consultation covering macro and micro resilient design for your land.

And Thanks always to Harmony Farm Supply & Nursery for supplying all our rain catchment materials!!

06/07/2026

If your wondering where to start when designing your Regenerative Garden, Farm, or Homestead. Go Macro to Micro! First observe and start from the broadest influences: climate, land shape, water, access! Then move towards the finer aspects, plants/trees, soil development, nutrient cycles. This will ensure more efficiency and less hasty decisions in the beginning of your design process.

06/02/2026

Living Willow update after 6 weeks, more like 2 months since planting. We reluctantly planted late into Spring and were concerned if the early heat might take them out. Luckily nature, and Willow especially, is so resilient and forgiving. Great to see the taller rods greening up. Next winter we will come in again to solidify and strengthen structure by weaving in new growth and adding new rods earlier in Winter if needed. Or we just leave it and let Willow express her self as she wishes. Grateful for teaming up with one of Sonoma counties most sustainably innovative and ecologically inspiring landscape companies to bring this to fruition! 💚 🙏🏼 if you’re interested, send a DM, we’re takin names for next Winter installs!!

05/15/2026

This 300’ ft terrace has slowed spread and sunk thousands of gallons of water across this hillside to spread hydration from valleys toward ridges, maximizing water capacity on this 9 acre property.

05/11/2026

Lovely day sharing the beauty and systems of nature and regenerative design with over 100 attendees. People from all over Northbay got to walk through a garden that gives back more than it takes. This garden catches over 30,000 gallons of water each year that is sequestering back into the topsoil and groundwater, as well as using low water use lawn and drip irrigation for all annual and perennial herbs, food, fiber, forage and fun! All ages and types coming through, a real treat to meet so many different kinds of people, all enjoying natures beauty and abundance.

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