HEALTHY LANDSCAPES

WHAT WE DO

We specialize in restoring and protecting both your property and the ecosystems within it by creating productive, sustainable, and healthy gardens and plant scapes. Every inch of landscape holds a rich ecosystem of plants and animals that can benefit you, your property, your community, and the planet as a whole.

Our Services

We work across a range of scales, from private gardens to fields of land, to help you enjoy the benefits that those plants, vegetation, water systems and even animals can bring you. No garden is too small to have an impact! Whether you’re looking for removals, rescues, restoration or reforestation - we can make it happen! Here are some examples of healthy ecosystems you can enjoy:

Lush native garden with tall trees, green native plants, and a variety of small blue and purple flowers along a winding grassy path through a forest.

  • Butterfly gardens provide habitat for bees, beneficial insects, and of course, butterflies - all of which help with pollination. They take 2-3 years to establish.

A native garden with stone steps leading upward, surrounded by lush green plants, ferns, bushes, and trees. Large rocks and small landscape lights enhance the natural scenery.

  • Native gardens are filled with species that have thrived in your geographic location for a LONG time. They often become homes for species that have lost their own homes. They take 3-5 years to establish.

Vegetable garden with fenced raised beds, leafy greens, and climbing plants, set in a rural landscape with open fields and trees in the background.

  • Food gardens are a great way to turn your lawn into an area that is both beautiful and productive for your dinner plate. Filled with perennial foods that you can enjoy for years to come. They take 2-5 years to establish.

People working in a vegetable garden on a sunny day, surrounded by trees.

  • For sites ranging from 1-50 acres, your entire landscape can become a food-producing ecosystem that feeds itself. We are planning, planting, and management experts at sites that can grow up to 50 different species of foods! They take 1-5 years to establish because of their mix of both annual and perennial species.

Tall green grasses in a field with a cloudy sky above.

  • Got garlic mustard, phragmites forests, or hogweed heart attacks? We’ve worked with them all! For smaller locations especially, we can be your property’s guardian angels through the hand removal of invasive species. This service will have surrounding plants singing your praises within days of removing those pesky trespassers.

Dense green forest with tall trees, sunlight filtering through the leaves, and a trail on the ground.

  • An old technique with a modern name, analog forests mimic the structure of natural forests. The cool thing about them is that they’re filled with species that are not only useful for you, but future generations to come. They typically take 3+ years to establish. 

Our PROCESS

Simply tell us about your landscape, what you’re hoping to do with it, and we can help you to get things growing! We’ll work with you across 3 customizable stages: Sharing, Planning & Doing. 

  • SERVICE: Our consultations cover 1-2 HRS of walking, talking, and sharing ideas about your property or project. We’ll also work closely with you on identifying plants and management plans toward your specific goals. This includes locations for plants, types of plants, plant requirements, sources for plants, and expected outcomes. This is also where we would typically quote follow-up costs. 

    COST: $120-$240/hr

  • SERVICE: Management plans and landscape planning/ design are customized for your unique space. They typically include details on your pre-site survey, proposed work, scoping and design, general ecosystem service valuation, sourcing for materials, costs, maintenance, and evaluation planning to measure your success and make better-informed decisions on managing your site in the future. Oftentimes, we can also couple these services with our project support and aerial imaging in order to provide you with even more detailed information towards helping you achieve your project goals.

    COST:

    Management Plans - $500 base rate for smaller projects & customized pricing for large projects.

    Landscape Designs - $2000 base rate for smaller projects & $5000 for larger.

  • SERVICE: For garden projects, this includes garden establishment (if needed), planting, and initial watering. For forest and restoration sites this includes harvesting (vegetation), replanting (reforestation), invasive species removal and safe disposal. 

    COST: $150/HR+ (adjusted to crew size).

Work With Us

Our work

Our work has always been in restoring, protecting and enjoying ecosystems and the services they provide. Since healthy landscapes is the very first service that our company began offering many moons ago, we have a long history of project examples. Although we’re based in Southwestern Ontario, we have extended our services to operate all the way up to Mid-Northern Ontario - and even globally to complete our unique style of work. See what we’ve been up to over the years: 

grounded in partnership

In this project highlight, Green Feet and Saugeen First Nation Elders help to bring Ecosystem Services and Indigenous Healing to the Brightshores Wellness and Recovery Centre.

  • A sustainable garden area native garden forested area with a dirt pathway surrounded by green plants and small blue flowers. In the background, there are trees and a structure enclosed by a wire fence.

    Native Garden

  • Sustainable healthy landscape of a Green Feet Ecosystem, an Organic vegetable garden with rows of leafy greens, herbs, and other vegetables, surrounded by lush trees in the background.

    Food Garden

  • A green feet ecosystem, native garden butterfly garden path surrounded by colorful flowers and plants, with trees in the background.

    Butterfly Garden

  • A landscaped garden Green Feet Ecosystem native garden with stone walls, green plants, white flowers, and large trees in the background.

    Landscape Tiering

  • A lush green garden meadow Green Feet Ecosystem sustainable landscape with native grasses, lined with apple trees for sustainably producing food.

    Natural Orchard

  • People walking through a field in Ghana on a reforestation project with small native trees and plants, carrying bags and tools for reforestation, as the sun sets on the sub-saharan region of africa during a sustainable forestry initiative.

    Ghana Reforestation

  • Stone retaining wall in a lush green native garden with trees and plants in a sustainable Green Feet Ecosystem.

    Moss & Stone Steps

  • Person in black clothing and gloves removing phragmites in a dense, green field of non-native invasive species.

    Invasives Removal

  • A landscaped pollinator garden with purple lavender and greenery along a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood, a Green Feet Ecosystem

    Lavendar Landscaping

  • A landscaped meandering meadow pathway surrounded by tall native grasses and plants, with a dark wooded area in the background.

    Meadow Walkway

  • A garden pathway of microgreens for a lawn alternative of bordered by large rocks and greenery with a white fence in the background.

    Microclover Cover

  • Pollinator Garden

  • A well-maintained front yard xeriscape Green Feet Ecosystem sustainable landscape with drought-tolerant plants, ornamental grasses, and decorative rocks

    Xeriscaping

  • Flower arrangement of creeping thyme for filling in between rock pathway in a sustainable landscape Green Feet Ecosystem of purple flowers and green foliage.

    Creeping thyme path

Another unique sub-service we offer in the Spring is Native Plant Rescue! This is where plants are removed from areas where they’re not wanted, to areas where they are. Learn more about this specific service here:

NATIVE PLANT RESCUE

A person from Green Feets ecosystem team completing restoration work planting a small native plant in the ground outdoors, with rocks, green plants, and orange flags around.
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Let’s Get Growing!

Want butterflies? Food? Less invasives? We've got you covered at any scale. Reach out to inquire about our wide variety of eco-landscaping services.

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