We are land tenders…

Going beyond household landscaping, we integrate holistic land management practices into our care for the Earth. We care for the less frequently visited areas of your land-scape in ways that will restore health and resilience to that particular ecosystem. Through a variety of methodologies, our work addresses the following challenges we face in our more ‘wild’ spaces:

Erosion

• Problem: Causes landslides, threatens human infrastructure, and degrades riverine ecosystems;

• Solution: Our aim is to keep the topsoil where it is - on the land and out of the rivers - giving us peace of mind that our structures our safe and that we are doing our part to conserve invaluable habitat for spawning salmon and other riverine life.

Build-up of Flammable Material

• Problem: Due to lack of proper stewardship, our forests have been degrading over the past several centuries. Due to the suppression of natural and cultural fire and the introduction of invasive plants (um, broom anyone?) and pests, forests have become overcrowded, trees and forests are sick, and and an unhealthy quantity of dead plant material has accumulated in our wild spaces. All of these symptoms can lead to catastrophic fires that endanger our homes and communities and threaten habitat for a multitude of native species.

• Solution: Removing Invasives, thinning the forest, limbing trees up, creating shaded fuel breaks, slowing and sinking water into the land.

Disease and Pests

• Problem: Due to overcrowding and improper land care, our forests are out of balance, providing an opportunity for diseases and pests to proliferate. Invasive plants such as French Broom and diseases like Sudden Oak Death run rampant without proper intervention.

• Solution: We work to remove invasives, thin the forest, put good fire on the land where we can, practice fire mimicry where we can’t, and restore the native plant understory and soil microbiology in order to bring back a natural balance on the land.