OUR HOA PROUDLY INTRODUCES
A NEIGHBORHOOD DEMONSTRATION IN LANDSCAPING WITH INTEGRITY
GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM NORTHERN WATER + LANDSCAPE DESIGN BY REBECCA’S GARDENS
Leading With Sustainability
WE INTRODUCE A
HEALTHY LOW MAINTENANCE ECO SYSTEM
Site Smart Planting
We select native and climate adapted plants to reduce water usage and maintenance as well as bolster native pollinator and ecosystem continuity.
WE PLAN WITH
NATIVE + REGIONALLY ADAPTED DESIGN
Locally Sourced
We recommend regionally sourced materials and furnishings to reduce our carbon footprint and to cultivate community based economy via ecology.
WE SAVE WITH
SMART USE + LOW WATER SOLUTIONS
Responsible Water Use
Our designs capture water on site to increase moisture retention and balance dispersal, recharge groundwater, reduce flooding, and keep pollutants out of local waterways.
Stewarding Our Land
OUR PHILOSOPHY IS GROUNDED IN EARTH VALUES
It’s time we see ourselves as stewards of the land, social change makers, and sustainable leaders in a society that is awakening to our true nature and taking responsibility for more efficient living.
Even on a suburban plot in a neighborhood, we recognize that the health of the ecology of our property and beyond is equal to our own health and the health of every living thing on it.
To help us achieve our goals, Rebecca’s Gardens has curated a Green Checklist that redefines property valuation for homeowners and HOAs who care about the effects of establishing a healthy environment and the various currencies and benefits that generates.
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 commitment to this approach uses native, sustainable, 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
How It Works
A GOOD IDEA ALWAYS REQUIRES HOLISTIC OBSERVATION + EFFICIENT APPLICATION
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.
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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 native and ecological values fit into the current marketplace?
They aren’t supposed to fit into the current main stream because it’s clogged. Rather, with this shift of perspective, 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 us become more aware of our 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 moving to include the outdoors in your experience of work-life balance. Join us as we take action this year to help uplift awareness for a happier and more interconnected green future.
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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
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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. Their collective decades of experience provide you with homegrown landscape and garden design specific to the Front Range. Their experience can recommend what may work best, from recommending local plant species, to supporting unique solutions for your soil, plants, trees, irrigation, and use of space, with practical design options that feature the best of our high altitude ecology.
