gardening
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The Early Stages of Your New Garden
When we build a regenerative garden bed, we are initiating a living process. Whether you’ve hired us to build the foundation or to help you maintain a maturing landscape, the garden is a dynamic system that changes with every season. To ensure that you are happy looking at your garden in the coming months and…
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Neighborhood Nurseries
Neighborhood Nurseries and learning to save seeds can supply our habitat with plants adapted to our specific climate—for free. The plant propagation nursery is a cooperative effort maintained by LSI, designed to spread the practice of planting habitats (rather than mere gardens) in suburban landscapes. By arranging plants that work together into guilds, we create beautiful…
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A guild to support a semi-dwarf apple tree
If you build this guild, please give us feedback on how it does and how it could be improved. This guild is a fairly standard apple guild. It is not designed for maximum ease of maintenance. Since apple trees require a pollinator, two or three apple guilds should be planted, and different guilds should be…
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To Reinhabit
Join a movement of homeowners and gardeners, coming together to transform lawns into abundant ecosystems.
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Seasonal Chicken Run
Written By David Braden We like to let our chickens out on the land because the greens, bugs and worms they eat make the eggs and meat they produce for us more nutritious. However, if you confine chickens to a piece of ground they will quickly strip it of vegetation and make a mud pit. We…
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Growing Our Own: More Than A Lifestyle Choice
Written By David Braden The story of the Reinhabit Cooperative is about a community coming together to find a place for all of its residents to contribute to the well-being of the community. We do that first and foremost by producing our own food. The following ideas form the basis for the services that our gardeners…
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Suburban Forest Islands: Creatively Use and Respond to Change, and Produce No Waste
Written by David Braden and published in Mother Earth News Often the design feature of a suburban yard is a big shade tree. What do you do when that big tree in your yard begins to die? For a suburban lot there can perhaps be no greater change. All of a sudden that deep shade…
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Year-Round Food Production: More Than a Greenhouse
Written By David Braden and published in Mother Earth News For anyone eating on a budget, or living in a food desert where it is difficult to get to the grocery store, protein and fresh vegetables become luxuries. Without protein and fresh vegetables human health is compromised. Access is particularly limited where fresh vegetables cannot be…
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Deep Mulch Gardening
Deep Mulch Garden Details Written By David Braden Laying out the Garden Space A family home needs a space for the family and friends to socialize. We can think of this as ‘enough lawn for the fourth of July party’. But it might also include space for the kids soccer practice and/or a place for the…
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Seed Saving and Line Breeding: Preparing for Climate Change
One of nature’s key strategies to respond to environmental change is maintaining the genetic diversity of the ecosystem. Unfortunately, the trends are toward decreasing genetic diversity while the risk of climate change is increasing. Whether or not our industrial system is the cause of climate change we will have serious problems if our food system…