Low-impact methods and low-cost process for growing results.
We apply permaculture principles to all sites regardless of size or long-term use.
It’s best for the land, for its inhabitants, and for the planet…
Sustainable Solutions for the Human Place in the Natural World.
Land Restoration • Ecosystems • Garden Design
Planning
Consultation
Site Work
Targeting one isolated aspect of a complex problem never leads to a sustainable solution.
Systems thinking does.
Restorative Land Management
preserves moisture • promotes fertility
proliferates microorganisms
jump-starts the ecosystem • increases diversity
stops soil erosion
mitigates cycles of floods and subsequent drought
stores carbon in the soil • helps cool the earth
counteracts global warming
Without exception, ecological designs end up producing higher quality with less collateral damage, and infinitely less maintenance requirements in the long run.
Vegetation Management
Vegetation Management is the essence of successful land restoration. Reducing or stimulating growth, utilizing biomass grown on-site as building blocks of a healthy environment, herbicide free and with minimal mechanical effort, light and shade the most powerful tools, processes more like weaving or sculpting, in sync with the cycles of nature.
Collaboration with Nature
The more closely a landscape is designed around the realities of preexisting natural conditions, the more successful the human effort becomes. The desire to dominate the environment ends up producing conflicts and costly maintenance. Modern land stewards are collaborators, adding beauty to the patterns that nature provides, growing landscapes both cultivated and wild.
Food Forests
Inspired by self sustaining forests, landscapes small or large can be planned to emphasize food producing plants - trees, shrubs and herbacious plants woven together as resilient ecosystems with a sense of beauty deeper than most designed ornamental gardens, full of life, welcoming children, celebrating diversity.
Environmental Restoration
Conservation of threatened ecosystems, wildfire prevention, post wildfire and storm damage stewardship, mitigation of erosion and desertification, conversion of damaged land to long-term stability - quintessential projects for carbon sequestration and cooling of the earth.
MendocinoEcoSystems has the ecological methods, and wants to inspire neighborhoods and communities to rebuild their ties through rebuilding their immediate environment.
Ornamental Landscapes
Classic landscape design and ecological principles are not in conflict: Eco projects can be solidly anchored in architecture, and formal gardens can be rooted in the local environment.
Gardens are best as highly personalized places, as retreats, as playgrounds, as collections of beloved plants regardless of their background.
Approach
Master Plans
Inventory of the land's significant features, and ideas, visions, strategies, sketches, designs, and practical solutions to help it reach its highest potential. Plans can be developed in the typical cerebral or in a more intuitive way.
Eco Site Development
and Earthwork
For watershed formation, terracing, roads, building sites, and other major land form alteration, we operate excavation equipment with the same sensitivity, building infrastructure while improving conditions of the surrounding land.
Workshops
“To inspire neighborhoods and communities to rebuild their ties through rebuilding their immediate environment” - we offer informal weekend hands-on classes in restorative landwork methods, usually hosted by one of the land owners who gets the benefit of the volunteer work.