Relax and renew
Workplaces. Urban spaces. Schools. Your own backyard.
Tending nature’s comeback
Where we live, work, and learn, we are almost completely cut off from nature, costing us in stress, health, and biodiversity. I’ve spent 30 years bringing it back, meeting people exactly where they are.
Three services
Whether it is a school courtyard, a downtown block or the ten metres outside your kitchen door, the work is the same. Return the plants that belong, and everything else follows.
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A complete living ecosystem with native plants, water features and wildlife habitat, installed at your school, workplace or urban space. Step outside the door and ground into a world that restores you. This is not landscaping. It is ecological transformation at scale.
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An online course for anyone who wants to bring native plants, wildlife and wild beauty back to their own yard. Led by the ecologist who recovered 250 species of native plants in his urban backyard.
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Beautiful ponds, water features, stonework patios and retaining walls, all built around native plant design. Ecological consulting for non-profits, First Nations communities and environmental groups, including traditional medicinal plant inventories.
I could hardly believe I was still in the city. The waterfall drowned out the traffic, pollinators buzzed between flowers, and I felt pure joy just being with every being around me.
Credibility
Ben Porchuk is a restoration ecologist, forest therapy leader, and former Head of Conservation at Royal Botanical Gardens.
He has spent thirty years recovering native ecosystems, from urban backyards to institutional grounds, consulting with First Nations communities, non-profits and schools across Canada. In his own urban backyard he has recovered 250 species of native plants. He is, by now, very nearly plant himself.
Get in touch
Tell Ben about the space you have in mind. Every enquiry is read by Ben himself.