Giving Tree Gardens landscaping department offers year round garden and landscape maintenance services. Our landscaping maintenance crews are out maintaining our client’s organic gardens and landscapes from the time the last snow melts in the spring till the ground freezes again in the fall.
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Giving Tree Gardens professional landscape and garden installation service crew work closely with our clients and with our garden designer Russ Henry to install award winning organic gardens.
The landscape installation services team at Giving Tree Gardens aim to make as little negative impact on the [...]
As owner of Giving Tree Gardens, Russ Henry works closely with each of his Landscape Design clients to create organic gardens that fulfill the needs and desires of each client. Giving Tree Gardens designs and services are each individually crafted to create functional enchanting spaces. [...]
Gardening can make our urban areas healthier, safer, and more beautiful. In this brief video, Russ Henry speaks out passionately in favor of making Minneapolis a model city for environmentally sound practices.
Here you’ll find links to some of our business, non-profit, and community partners in growing a more beautiful and bountiful Twin Cities for ourselves and future generations.
Comgar Listserv: Gardeners Unite, Connect, Grow!
The Seed Newsletter Archives: All Your Favorite Garden [...]
In 2007, Giving Tree Gardens and The Seward Co-op Grocery and Deli were honored with an award for The Best Business Garden in the city, from the MetroBloomsorganization of Minneapolis.
Here’s what a couple of our clients have to say: When I inherited my mother’s garden, I inherited Russ Henry too. What a lucky break for me! Russ understood exactly what needed to be done to maintain my mother’s gorgeous garden. As I watched the garden through spring, into summer and then into fall, [...]
Prayers can come true if you live them. A Lakota Sioux elder once told a group of folks I was sitting with that if you want to see your prayers come true you have to live them. What he said struck a chord with [...]
The following is an excerpt from an interview that Russ Henry did with Growing Power as a part of Growing Power’s series of interviews about race, justice, and the food system.
Food is the second medicine. My wife [...]
The city that gardens together grows sustainably together. Gardening is perhaps the greatest tool for building sustainability that we can all share. Gardens can improve water quality, air quality, access to food, and personal health. Cities that actively nurture the gardening and urban farming [...]
