WE OFFER DESIGN + CONSULTATION FOR HOME OWNERS OR LAND OWNERS WHO ARE READY TO TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN UNDERSTANDING + IMPLEMENTING REGENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THEIR PROPERTY OR FOR THEIR COMMUNITY

Here’s How To Get Started

√ Schedule a time (call or email us) to meet with our Design Specialist at your property for a complimentary initial walk through

√ Using our handy Green Land Checklist, review your goals with us, evaluate your property for a Regenerative Design

√ With our Design Specialist, identify requirements for the 4 stages of implementation, which may include: (1) On-site Observation and Preparations, (2) Reuse or Curating Plants or Materials, (3) Immediate and/or Long Term implementation schedule, (4) Guidance consultations

and receive information, referrals or support necessary to take next steps

√ Receive an email estimate that reflects our conversation and make any adjustments necessary

FULL YARD

BOULDER TRANSFORMATION

FRONT or BACK YARD

NATIVE FEATURES

EXISTING MAP

SMALL SPACE

Our DESIGN is the key step that will walk you through initial questions and visualization to plant/material selection so you’re ready for your garden to be installed and come to life. Our focus is to bring your goals and nature’s intelligence into greater balance, one garden at a time!

Your Landscape Design (or package) may include:

• Initial Consultation (complimentary)

• Private Website Page URL (info accessible in one place)

• Conceptual consultation/s to confirm aesthetic preferences, functional needs, budget, schedule, and details

• Site Observations, Measurements, Specifications

• 2D Color Layout (digital design) + 2-3 revisions (additional available)

• Plant List with Reference Pictures and species-specifics

• Material lists with Reference Pictures and annotations

• Optional: Integrated base-map layers: Permaculture Elements, Bioregional rehabilitation, Microclimate Requirements, + Site specific influences

• Strategic ideas, resource links, recommendations

• Vendor recommendations

• Service provider referrals

• Curated 3rd-party-professional youtube videos for how-to and inspiration

HOW IT WORKS

You’ll receive helpful guidance to clarify goals and expectations and a sequence of what to expect. We begin with gathering our data through simple observations and research, followed by a conversation with you to review the spatial layout, and suggested native plant list. We then work with your feedback and complete or develop the plan. For larger projects a compilation of layers may be prepared.

"Biodiverse and beautiful, a great team and great results in the heart of Boulder— we couldn’t be more pleased.”— Linda

“I’m so thrilled! It’s like going from 0 to 100 with my garden!” — Colene

Your Conceptual Design phase includes:

• Site Observations + Analysis

• Listing Goals and focal-points, including visual preferences

• Sketches or basic reference drawings

• Digital mock up of ideas (optional)

CREATE THE CONCEPT

As part of your REGENERATIVE DESIGN process, this is an exciting phase.

We start with DIRECT OBSERVATION over time. This is the way to get to know the property and truly understand what is needed to bring our goals into fruition in the context of the informed environment. We use your experience as well as our own to help guide our assessment. It starts the ‘conversation’ with the existing elements that lead us to make decision that will ultimately benefit all. This step informs the conceptual design.

A DESIGN CONCEPT is the next step. This is a basic sketch, where we imagine and visualize a desired spatial layout with gestalt references. The focus here is really about laying foundations of form, functionality, and use of space, not so much what it will look like yet.

The purpose is to find the optimal relationships between various spaces in the landscape, as well as between the landscape and the existing home or environment, and also between those who use the space and the environment. We may use circles, bubbles, or swaths to indicate areas we are dreaming into being. Think outside the box, follow your hunches, imagine movement, experience, exploration and discovery. We ask which of our inspired concepts solve the identified needs or satisfy your preferences most elegantly, most originally, and most efficiently.

• Considering use of space, and new ideas

• Accounting for microclimate, elements, neighborhood or natural influences

• Listing challenges and possible solutions

• Dreaming new spaces into being

DEVELOP + DESIGN THE CONCEPT

HONE YOUR CONCEPT: This phase provides you with iterations or revisions of your design for a fuller and more detailed development of your desired direction from the initial concept. Reference pictures for plants, materials, custom features, or additional research are also explored. We provide a recommended plant list with botanical names and reference pictures, as well as suggested materials if applicable. Specific elements and select layers highlight different relevant features including: structures, utilities, soft/hardscape, irrigation, lighting, permaculture principles, usage, etc.

“We were able to confirm our preferences every step of the way and the yard now looks stunning thanks to the plan.” — Adam & Miriam

Our values and work support both local ecology and community!

“Why Fill Time To Make A Living — It’s Time To Create Fulfillment In The Living You’re Making”

At Rebecca’s Gardens we proudly partner with Geoflower, a local Boulder education + practice incubator, to offer you rEV Design™ Immersions, where you can dive deep into creating your own values-based approach to sustainable living, ecological design, and earth guardianship. With the guidance of our rEvolutionary Design leads, your course will be held live at (or on zoom from) Geoflower Farm in Boulder Colorado. What’s involved?…

First and foremost, we recognize ourselves to be earth guardians and more locally, guardians of the land. To be an earth guardian is to recognize that all life is connected. It is to be interested in those connections, in the intricacies and various components, the living systems all very multi-dimensional, alive, and real. We are motivated to live and to act from a place of mindfulness, compassion, responsiveness and care toward all living things, including the health and well being of our environments, natural elements, animals, humans, and self.

How does design fit into this purpose and mission? Design in this regard means to embrace nature’s patterns or best interests in harmony with humanity’s. This can be demonstrated through study, understanding, learning, and the practice of many approaches. For example, biodynamics, regenerative agriculture, native landscapes, permaculture projects, ecological planning, geomancy, even understanding the electrical magnetism of earth’s lay lines and how subtle energy fields are generated and harnessed by sunlight and natural elements in motion.

In this way, what it means to engage rEV Design, is to engage values that can change our perspective, our worldview— our daily habits, even our identity. For when we activate change within ourselves, in so doing the world around us changes.

Using a breakthrough method of coherent design and vision, rEvolutionary Design is taking bold new steps to equip people and groups of all ages and walks of life — from children, to garden enthusiasts, homeowners, land workers, and environmental leaders of many roles in our communities— with the education and tools necessary to be able to make necessary changes in response to today’s challenges and uplifting choices for our future. Each person who chooses to be an earth guardian in this sense creates a ripple effect in support of implementing more sustainable and regenerative solutions in this time of global transformation.

One of our core leaders, and program founder, Rebecca is an experienced rEV Designer™, engaging forward thinking and experiential projects and classes to expand this balance of wisdom and heart. She and her colleagues specialize in custom projects for environmentally conscious businesses and non profits such as native landscape and garden design as well as cutting edge initiatives to increase earth awareness and education. It all comes down to each individual’s capacity for sovereignty. With a group of such individuals, we are prepared to experiment in making exponential change possible.

How does rEvolutionary Design™ work?

FOR BUSINESS

The rEvolution begins for businesses by bringing respect for the environment and ecology to the forefront of client awareness through (a) sustainable ecology or landscape design, (b) promoting and working with sustainable vendors and policy makers where appropriate, and (c) by prioritizing the health of the land as significant to property value — as defined by mindful homeowners and realtors.

Financial and many other interdependent methods of exchange determine how we re-define property value as a collective. To promote and up-level how we value our relationship between ecology and economy, we:

√ start new conversations

√ design or build regenerative solutions

√ promote new perspectives for mutual benefit

√ make sustainable connections

√ introduce biodiversity

√ offer symbiotic features

√ promote education

√ foster cooperation

 Each of these areas of attention is designed to inspire new goals by honoring the wisdom of nature and working with new and changing methods and technologies to meet the future. 

FOR EDUCATION

The rEvolution begins in terms of education through learning how to balance our inner environment, in other words self awareness, with our outer environment, meaning the work we do with nature, be that agriculture, landscape restoration, green building, or social planning. By bringing our inner and outer ‘natures’ into sync, we begin an empowering conversation with the world around us, propelling us forward with a personal clarity and a group momentum fueled by aligned values that defies most current forms of environmental thought. We foster wisdom and practices that can identify true environmental needs, balance those with human lifestyle or intentions, and that can implement the necessary perception and actions that honor and value our relationship with the natural world and all its components and relations. We offer classes, immersions, series, and events for individuals and groups of all ages and walks of life.

Our Essential Training Series

With rEvolutionary Design™

Design To Make A Difference

rEvolutionary Design offers a trademarked certificate program, online and on-site in Boulder, CO, that trains and embodies today’s most forward thinking and empowered community members and regenerative leaders.

Our process includes implementing a simple yet effective process that leverages key tools, practices, and wisdom for both internal and environmental benefit. The basis of our program is founded on a unique blend of progressive worldview in the area of regenerative social values (integrative psychology), progressive philosophy (Steiner, Permaculture, and more), and embodied perception (shamanic environmental awareness).

Our methodology for this program features breakthrough practices easily applicable across a spectrum of current situations from ethical ecological solutions, to community design, and consumer education, as well as sampling successful takeaways among a broad range of inter-dependent industries from bio-dynamic farming to social cohesion, and better green business development.

Participants take the program as a journey, learning self-growth patterns, and eventually leadership strategies. The overall effect is to become self activated, where one more easily attracts constituents aligned with one’s values for greater synergy and efficiency, can manage team and projects from a place of authentic sovereignty, and aligns multidisciplinary goals with integrity.

Through certified rEV™ Design work, long term benefits are as key as immediate steps. Participants are guided through a growth track customized to help support their unique goals and ability, highlighting self-awareness practices, interpersonal skills, honing techniques for learned skills of trade and/or business, and team building, cultivating the courage and foresight to make changes in their industry, and standing up for green values even where habituated attitudes or policy may be undervaluing the importance of timely action.

Seamlessly integrated into the program, each participant actively engages in chosen mindfulness practices to maintain the best version of themselves and their trade. Together, we choose to co-create a world where values such as symbiosis and compassionate awareness are re-defining community values, work ethic, and carving out a fresh path for healthy living connections in our lifestyles, industries, and around the globe.

Click here for our 2024 Schedule of Upcoming Classes + Immersions. Follow us on social media with videos, tutorials, testimonials and other ways you can participate.

Who Are Our rEvolutionary Designers?

Representing a purpose-driven collective, rEvolutionary Designers™ are intentionally committed to becoming new leaders demonstrating progressive ecological and social change. rEV Design™ is embraced by those who seek to evolve themselves and to redefine their core mission or approach to life, community, and work as a way to come into harmony with the ecology of the planet with its diverse elements and inhabitants. An essential part of this new approach offers steps to integrate interior awareness and culture with the result of finding a greater balance within and recognizing how that is intricately supportive of and connected to the world outside. In this way, aligned intentions that ring true from deep in our core can become a lighthouse of regenerative empowerment around us. As Nicola Tesla recognized that, “if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration,” rEv Design™ acknowledges that our emotional alignment and heart passions, when holistically directed, can exponentially boost the structure of our authentic green initiatives, for effective collaborative and global rEvolution. rEV Design™ has gained niche popularity in Boulder, Colorado, from which founder Rebecca currently works.

A GARDEN PRACTICE SESSION

Get Your Head + Heart In Coherence