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Design & Install Regenerative Systems
Scavenge, Forage, & Innovate
Work w/ What's Present
Local & Free
Weed What's Necessary
Give Purpose to Misfits & Waste
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Design & Install Regenerative Systems
Regenerative System?
The Color & Light Co. defines a Regenerative System as an installment or protocol that gives and/or receives from the garden design on its own, and with little to no input.
A great example is a compost pile; waste from landowners is composted and in turn creates a rich fertilizer as a product to use in the garden or to sell to neighbors!
Because people never stop having food waste, the compost pile's product (the fertilizer) regenerates continually.
Why Grow Gardens? Why Plant Flowers?
Flowers are a great example of functional beauty; they
contribute to soil health,
can be edible/medicinal,
attract pollinating species like bees, birds, and bats, which allow many fruits and vegetables to produce the food we eat
& planting flowers are a great way to keep soil active! Soil that supports the lives of plants, insects, and micro organisms, benefits human beings and the earth itself.
Planting gardens utilize "blank" land space in a way that hinders land-loss, can potentially absorb flood-waters and climate-changing gasses.
Deep and thick plant roots hold soil together and prevent t from moving around, negatively impacting water that we use, food production, and more. Root systems also create pores in the earth that allow for land to sponge up water, rather than flood.
Plants also use gasses in the air like carbon dioxide to grow and output oxygen that we breathe. Many yards are grasses with root systems that aren't deep enough to provide any benefits
Scavenge, Forage, Innovate
Color & Light Co. makes strong efforts to salvage and repurpose waste materials to build/install farm & garden structures. The company never sacrifices quality and longevity for cheap or free material.
Scrap wood repurposed for weed control;
Tactfully placed on top of slow degrading fertilizer source before being covered with a thick layer of mulch. The mulch will not only create uniformity but will encourage the eventual breakdown of the wood pieces underneath. The slowly broken down wood will add organic matter to this rose bed, giving it a higher capacity to absorb and store nutrients. Continuing a practice like this for years would create a soil environment that, potentially, would need no added fertilizers.
Repurposed Soil Bags for Weed Control;
Using two bags of lawn stakes ($4/ea) and saved plastic soil/mulch bags, we are able to mimic conventional landscaping practices, while creating an efficient growing environment for these lavender.
These banana plants provide their own mulch-- a great example of a regenerative system. The browned leaves work as a weed barrier and will provide organic matter to the soil once it breaks down. We took the opportunity to make a Pennywort Groundcover:
(triangle raised beds made from discarded fencing.)
Raised beds designed mimicking the practice 'hugelkultur';
Wood is placed at the bottom of a planting plot so that as it breaks down overtime, it will add beneficial organic matter to the soil area. The large and dense wood pieces also work as an organic drain mechanism to prevent stagnation and root rot. As excess water reaches the bottom of the bed, liquid fertilizer by way of the manure and our regular soil treatments, will soak into the wood and provide long-term nutrient release until the wood has completely bio degraded.
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