Tending
NATURE’S COMEBACK…
Workplaces. Urban spaces. Schools. Your Own Backyard.
“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
Nature Sense Grounds
A complete living ecosystem with native plants, water features, wildlife habitat is installed at your school, workplace, or urban space. Step outside the door and into a world that restores you. This is not landscaping. This is ecological transformation at scale. Click Here for more.
Bringing Forests Home
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 in his urban backyard. To learn more, Click Here.
Landscaping & Consulting
Native plant design, ponds, water features, stonework patios, and retaining walls. Ecological consulting for non-profits, First Nations communities, and environmental enterprises. includes traditional medicinal plant inventories. Click Here for more.
““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 30 years recovering native ecosystems from urban backyards to institutional grounds & consulting with First Nations communities, non-profits, and schools across Canada. Ben has recovered 250 species of native plants in his own urban backyard (he is almost ‘Plant’). Click Here to book Ben for speaking.