Homegrown Nature Preserve
Transform your land into a thriving private nature preserve that supports natural beauty, local and regional conservation efforts, and enables you to more thoroughly enjoy your space.
We craft a plan to accomplish your aspirations honoring your unique soil, hydrology, and light characteristics
Restore and/or improve site conditions by eliminating/removing unwanted vegetation and modifying soil profiles.
Build access, hydrology, and function with high-quality material and the expertise to deliver authenticity.
Ecologists, botanists, and field teams collaborate to perform high efficacy planting with locally sourced plants.
Cost-efficient stewardship protects your investment in restoring authentic natural function.
Work with ArcheWild’s experienced team of ecologists, botanists, researchers, and restoration practitioners to design and build a nature preserve specifically targeting your goals and site characteristics. Our full-service nursery, design, planning, construction, and implementation capabilities take the hassle out of the process and maintain consistency, communication, and collaboration from beginning to end.
Because we have explored ecosystems across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, we intimately understand the structural and ecological components that make a nature preserve special and bring those components to your back door.
Supporting natural beauty, function, and authentic ecological services has never been so easy. Know that when working with ArcheWild staff, you are working with practicing ecologists, not landscapers or landscape designers.
With ArcheWild, you get realistic guidance, expert assistance, and the best native plants in the industry. We guarantee that we will know exactly what to do for your property, how to accomplish your goals, and that anything we do will deliver long-lasting, authentic results.
Browse a selection of images from our Homegrown Nature Preserve collection. All work was performed by our teams.
Wildlife Preserves
Robust and durable native plantings lay the foundation for food web above them, culminating in the iconic bird, insect, amphibian, and mammal species we are all responsible for saving.
But wood webs cannot be restored without successful native plantings, conserving and managing moisture, and the full suppression of invasive species.
Wildlife Preserves can be of any size; every little bit helps.
If you have 1/8-acre to share with nature, ArcheWild can build a meaningful wildlife preserve on your land.
Wet Meadow Stream Preserve
This reforestation project was designed to improve the quality of the forest on the miliatary base, which had degraded due to weather pattern changes, insect damage, and human activities.
ArcheWild planted more than 50,000 trees grown from mostly PA-sourced seeds. Timelines were very compressed, so ArcheWild deployed a large team, pulling from other departments to get the job done before summer.
We replaced the dying ash and silver maple forests with a more site-appropriate mix of white pine, oaks, and hickories, among others.
Bucks County Preserves
Iconic Bucks County is under threat, but some landowners are taking action by investing in their own nature preserves.
Homeowners are choosing to create nature preserves instead of maintaing their properties in lawn. From 80-acres to 7-acres and countless backyards, ArcheWild clients are establishing meadows, restoring wetlands, and rebuilding their forests.
Each property is different but what they all have in common is saying “yes!” to nature by pursuing a path of vital ecosystem recovery on their own and adjacent properties, often by buying them outright. Bigger is better!
Botanical Preserves
Some landowners care more about the plants and show that you don’t need multiple acres to create a meaningful botanical preserve. ArcheWild converted a once sterile one-acre landscape into a vibrant community of formal and natural garden spaces for pollinators and beauty.
ArcheWild’s unique understanding of soil structure and large inventory of native species allowed our team to create a wide range of plant communities across the landscape.
Each species is documented and accessioned to double as a seed source for local botanical conservation efforts
Nature Reserves
ArcheWild has explored, worked in, and documented meadows, wetlands, shrublands, and forests from West Virginia to New England. We intimately understand the characteristics and conditions that make natural spaces healthy, durable, and enjoyable.
ArcheWild specializes in recreating the natural systems that any site can and would support on their own, if they could.
A major limitation to the rewilding of our communities is a lack of naturally occurring seed sources, or wild plant populations. We know how to choose and then grow the right native plants to rebuild your own nature preserve. Animals will come on their own.
