Preserve, Protect, and Enhance Nature

At Back to Nature, regenerative design is employed to create built systems that complement and enhance the natural systems that support them.

At Back to Nature, we believe that we all have an ongoing responsibility to be stewards of our natural environment. We work in the realm beyond "sustainable" design to restore natural resources and systems to their most healthy and productive states.

The landscapes and neighborhoods that we design are not only unsurpassed in their levels of amenity, beauty, and quality, they are also unsurpassed in their positive relationships with the environment. Using regenerative design, we seek to preserve what is healthy, repair what is unhealthy, restore what is depleted, and ensure that strong, productive natural systems not only survive, but thrive. We apply regenerative thinking to everything that we work on, from private backyards to entire sustainable communities.

The regenerative approach we use to assess every piece of land allows us to see opportunities where others see challenges. When we encounter a wetland, instead of viewing it as a liability, we view it as an asset that can be both beautiful and functional by increasing the ground water recharge, wildlife habitat, and character of a site. When a property we’re developing is bisected by a river unable to support aquatic life, we repair the land that borders the river and the systems that feed into it so that the river may once again provide a home to fish and other wildlife.

At Back to Nature, we believe that regenerative design is a fundamental tool that will to continually move us closer to a future defined by healthy communities and a healthy world.