Welcome

What do we do?

Octopus Organic Gardening was founded in 2009 to provide property owners with organic yard maintenance and sustainable landscape design and installation services.

Our mission:to be the company that people come to for professional, responsible, environmentally safe lawn and garden care.

Our vision: to become an important local asset in the development of visibly sustainable communities in this region.

Our values: proactive and restorative environmental action, personal creativity, collaboration, and producing a high quality of service while enjoying our work.

Organic?

Octopus Organic Gardening offers site-specific organic lawn care and fine gardening maintenance. We use non-toxic materials along with low impact tools and techniques to encourageboth soil and plant health.  Over a season or two the root mass of the plants wil increase as will the level of biological life in the soil.

The 2010 season marks the introduction of our Chemically Free Lawn Care Program. Using a proprietary Bio-T spray and compost mixtures, and a few techniques borrowed from sustainable agriculture,we can help you create a yard that is safe for the entire family. Whether you are looking for an alternative to an existing lawn program, or want to make a an old lawn more inviting - we can customize a program for you.

Guiding Principles for our work

Not all gardening or landscape projects require a great deal of underlying philosophy.  Octopus Organic Gardening wants to promote broad based sustainability whenever we work. We take a common sense approach that draws from best practices of organic gardening and farming.

The Sustainable Sites Initiative is a recent national program that has created 10 goals for the design of any site.

Here is a sample of those goals:

• Be careful to not degrade the diversity of a site, but focus on regenerating it.
• Design the landscape with consideration for both natural inhabitants and human participants
• Use a systems thinking approach that focuses on relationships and connections between all the elements of the site.
• Use a collaborative and ethical approach in communication and conducting business.
• Foster environmental stewardship and responsible management by sharing information and offering assistance. 

More information about these guidelines can be found at www.sustainablesites.org 

The international field of Permaculture also offers many design challenges for anyone determined to create a sustainable  system.

A sample of those design challenges:

• Use permanent plants and perennial food crops wherever possible.
• Preserve and create natural plant and animal associations.
• Complexity and diversity in the landscape is good for the well being of the surrounding environment.
• The problem we face is often the solution right in front of us.
• The productive yield of the system is theoreticaly unlimited.

More information can be found at www.permaculture.org

No matter what the underlying theory is, your site needs to be beautiful to your eyes and your experience.  Octopus Organic Gardening is here to help you create that place.  If you want to discuss any of these design ideas give us a call or send a message.

 

Visitors will want to return to this site to see updates on our most recent projects, read timely gardening tips, and to check on links to interesting local and international projects.