Our work includes meadow and pollinator habitats, bird and butterfly sanctuaries, lawn replacements, pocket forests, woodland restoration, stormwater management, and ecological landscape design.
As is typical of Long Island, the backyard had an intact native forest canopy but the understory was a twisted mess of invasive wisteria, bittersweet and burning bush, rendering the space largely unusable.
This client approached us with a field of lawn on their coastal estate that they were hoping to transform into meadow. Through seeding and plantings, we helped them turn this under-utilized field into a complete prairie oasis–lined with winding trails, humming with life, and offering waves of vibrant blooms throughout the seasons.
Stormwater runoff was slowly pushing this property into the Long Island Sound. The lawn that grew up to the edge of the bluff did little to slow the erosion. The soil was compacted both by the stormwater runoff, and by our habit of constant mowing. Little was being absorbed when it rained.
