About Nature's Way -- an eco landscaping collaborative venture

 

Specializing in landscape restoration and re-wilding with native plants.

We are a group of gardeners, landscapers, restoration ecologists, arborists, PBio's and conservationists that collaborate on various ecological landscaping and re-wilding gardening projects on Gabriola Island.

No project is too small or too big!

Do you have an area you want restored or rewilded back to a more healthy native landscape? E-mail our restoration Team Lead, Ken Gurr today.

natureswaygabe (at) gmail.com

or landline: 250.247.7510

Helping islanders with:

  A)  Project planning, coordinating fieldwork and service providers, advice and follow-up care plans;

  B)  Naturescaping/rewilding for more native plant biodiversity, rainwater overflow rain gardens, and restoration projects -- from small, pocket garden projects to large landscape areas, we can help;

  C)  Removal of invasive plants;

  D) Ethically sourcing and providing native plants from local recovery sites and from our own on-island native plant nursery (grown here or supplied by nurseries on Vancouver Island).

The collaborative team of Nature’s Way is here to help!  We meet you, assess the needs, come up with a plan and cost estimates and organize all the work and native plant sources to get the job done.

Summer and early fall is time to do initial prep work, then we schedule all the native plant restoration activities on your property for the late-fall to early-spring months (the best time to give native plants a chance to take hold).

​"It's a good time to get a little more wild."

Our Team

 

Nature's Way Collaborative Includes the Following Fine Folks and Businesses . . .

Jay Baker-French -- restoration ecologist (marine and riparian)

Moe Hill -- gardener

Stephen Levesque -- permaculture specialist

Hilary Masson -- gardener

Ocean Mussack -- gardener

Bobbi O’Brien -- restoration ecologist and gardener

TreeSwift --  Lynn Bowerman & Team -- gardeners and pruning specialists

Luka Rajkovic -- gardener

Jeff Strohm -- ecologist and gardener

Erin Udal -- pollinator specialist and gardener

Undaunted Blackberry Removal -- Jim Phillipoff

Ken Gurr -- project coordinator, gardener, landscaper

All the Above Tree Service -- arborists

Aquaparian Environmental Consulting Ltd. - PBios (Nanaimo)

Coast Alive Services - Chris Drake – Salt Spring Island restoration ecologist colleague

Grounds Control  -- AJ Hustins, landscaping and gardening  

Gulf Islands Tree Service -- arborists

Mack Shaw Excavating

Total Property Care -- Sean Hawkes, excavating, hauling and disposal 

 

Do you have an area you want restored or rewilded back to a more healthy native landscape? E-mail our restoration Team Lead, Ken Gurr today! 

natureswaygabe (at) gmail.com

or landline: 250.247.7510

​"It's a good time to get a little more wild."

Recommended Native Plants Lists for our Region

 Recommended Native Plants Lists for our Region

From our experience, here are PDF links to two of the best and easiest to read native plant guides/lists for Gabriola (concise too!)

BC Nature -- Native Plants List

Habitat Acquisition Trust - Victoria -- Gardening with Native Plants Guide 

And here is the main page full of practical info and resources about Gardening With Nature -- that the good folks at Habitat Acquisition Trust have put together.

How we do a Site Assessment and Plan of Action for Your Project

Our Site Assessment and Plan of Action for Your Naturescaping/Re-wilding Project

When you contact us, we will arrange a site visit with you to suss out what is possible on your property, or hone-in on a specific area you would like us to work on . . .

Here is our checklist:

Make a Conservation Pledge as a GaLTT Nature Steward

Support the Gabriola Land & Trails Trust Nature Stewards Program

Our island's citizen-led initiative to conserve at least 30% of the land area for wildlife habitat biodiversity on privately-owned land. It is a voluntary pledge of stewardship and NOT in any way a land-titles restriction or legal agreement. It's about honour and care for the land you love.

Find out more via the link to the program page above. 

The GaLTT Nature Stewards page also has a curated list of recommended web-links and free resources for learning more about nature stewardship.

Creating a forest community from a logged area

This is a PDF page link to the Galiano Conservancy Association  (GCA) report (8 pages) 

They have worked hard at restoring/rejuvenating a young Douglas Fir Plantation to enhance biodiversity and accelerate the natural dynamics of natural forest conditions. Normally, with a heavy impact like clearcutting and replanting, it would take several more decades to fully naturalize to more "primary forest" conditions.

Thanks to GCA for all their good work and sharing of lessons learned!