Community Design Forum

Is your block club, church group, or office place ready to go green? 

 In this time of shrinking budgets we need to recognize the assets in our communities and help them grow into a sustainable future!

    
Community Design Forums are meetings where folks come together to create action plans for moving forward with changes that positively effect their community¹s environment.  By sharing needs, knowledge, and ideas communities get to know the power within their ranks and discover ways to help grow their green ideas.

Facilitated by Giving Tree Gardens owner, Russ Henry, these forums bring together his skills as a professional Earth-Friendly Landscaper and a volunteer Restorative Justice Facilitator. 

Russ sits down with consultation attendees and asks them to share their concerns, ideas, efforts, and knowledge with each other so that communities can not only draw from his experience in the garden and landscape, but more importantly, attendees learn about each other¹s skills and abilities.

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Consultation and Garden Coaching

Giving Tree Gardens now offers our professional landscaping consulting services for all those do-it-yourself clients that would simply like a little advice.  Many of our clients love to garden themselves, but want to have a professional on their side.  In order to help folks get the most out of their consultation time, Russ Henry has designed the Healthy Yards, Healthy Lives Home Consultation! This  Earth Friendly landscaping and organic gardening consultation will help home gardeners apply the 7 steps outlined in the link above.  From garden design and layout, to landscape installation methods, and landscaping maintenance routines, to back yard organic garden food production and promoting healthy ecosystems, this landscaping consultation is a one stop shop for improving the quality of life on this planet one back yard organic garden at a time!

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Maintenance

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.

We'll maintain your landscape through the winter months with our trusted Snow Removal Service.   Our landscape maintenance services include composting, weeding, perennial division, tree and shrub pruning, and mulching.  In addition our maintenance crews plant annuals in the spring and bulbs in the fall.  Giving Tree Gardens landscaping  maintenance crew makes sure your organic gardens grow more lovely with each passing season.

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Garden Installation

 

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 land as they can while landscaping installations take place.

We use hand tools whenever possible and we keep our foot traffic to a minimum.  Our organic gardens and landscapes are installed so that they will have all they need to grow healthy and full, and our organic garden installation services are designed around our clients needs and dreams.

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Organic Landscape Design

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. We take the time to get to know how our clients will use their outdoor spaces, so that we can design their gardens to enhance the livability and pleasure they find just outside their doors.  Giving Tree Gardens are designed to preserve nature, and provide all year-long beauty.   "We aim for 100% client satisfaction" explains Russ Henry, "I want my clients to love the work I do for them, so I pay close attention to what they want to find when they step into the landscape.

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Video: Edible Landscapes, Food Justice, and more!

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.

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