Reimagine your yard

Reimagine your yard

Reimagining our yards is something each of us can do to help reconnect fragmented habitats, restore biodiversity, build climate resilience, and support our Earthly kin.

  • Biodiversity: offer refuge and food for the web of life (birds, pollinators, insects, soil microbes and more)
  • Climate resilience: cool your home, create a windbreak, sink and absorb rainwater, filter air pollution
  • Sanctuary: create privacy, hide unsightly views and reduce noise with a living screen
  • Wellbeing: reduce stress, diversify your gut microbiome, and increase feelings of connection and engagement with Nature
  • Enchantment: bring joy, wonder, and hope to your neighbourhood.

Pocket Forests

maple with Flicker perched on a branch

Pocket Forests are densely-planted, multilayered native tree and shrub communities. Our method is inspired by Japanese botanist Dr. Akira Miyawaki. While the trees we plant are little, they'll quickly outgrow those planted using conventional methods. Learn more about how we can support you with Pocket Forests.

Pocket Meadows

meadow of wild petunia, june grass, coreopsis, purple love grass

Pocket meadows are densely-planted, multilayered communities of 12-20 native flowering herbaceous perennials and grasses woven together in a tight mosaic that keeps out undesirable plants. We'll be launching a Pocket Meadow program in 2025.

Living Lawns

living lawn with blue-eyed grass

The perfect lawn is no longer an immaculately mown turfgrass monoculture. Instead, a perfect lawn is a living lawn – a flowering tapestry teeming with a diversity of life. Living lawns are left to grow long, with low-growing native flowers such as Wild Strawberry, Self-Heal, Yarrow, and Violets planted into the grass. Or you could support even more biodiversity by seeding your living lawn from scratch, using native grasses like Poverty Oat Grass. Learn more about living lawns from the 1000 Islands Master Gardeners.