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Native Meadows

Native meadows are the most difficult of all landscape restoration projects. Leverage our twenty years of meadow-building experience to create authentic, durable, sustainable habitats.

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Site Evaluation

Explore and document the unique soil composition, hydrologic profile, and existing vegetation of each riparian buffer. 

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Species Selection

Use our models to choose an optimal set of species attuned to the site. Decide shrub/tree composition and species proportions.

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Site Prep and Seeding

Preparation includes removing unwanted vegetation and making slight modifications to improve biodiversity. Seeding is performed using specialized equipment.

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Stewardship

Meadow building continues long AFTER seeding by providing continuous invasive control and introducing new species not available through seed mixes.

ArcheWild is one of the most experienced meadow building contractors in the mid-Atlantic. It has taken twenty years to create a process that delivers durable results.

All ArcheWild meadows start with an intensive site visit by one of our ecologists. This site thoroughly evaluates the site identifying the various ecological zones, documenting weeds and invasives, and collecting data.

We use a suite of advanced tools that allow our ecologists to narrow in on the set of 8-12 species that forms the core of each meadow and their adjuncts. And we employ private seed farmers to grow the seed that most dealers overlook.

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Native Meadow Portfolio

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Wildlife Preserve

This client wanted to build an 11-acre wildlife sanctuary to increase the abundance and diversity of birds while maintaining multi-generational access and stormwater function.

Staff ecologists created a roadmap to include restored meadows and ponds, complete invasive removal, wetland shrubland, and more.

Site preparation and construction included multiple years of invasive species management, the installation of a custom-built deer fence, and other recreational features.

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Wet Meadow & Stream Preserve

Living on 15-acres next to an EQ-1 stream in the New Jersey Highlands seemed impossible to the landowner.

Long-term invasive species management, wet meadow restoration, and innovative stream bank protection feature largely in the whole-property transformation. In just five years, the owner now boasts of having over 200 locally genotyped native plant species in several different habitat types, hosting all types of new wildlife.

Property includes walking trails, a deer fence, stream crossings, and wildlife nest boxes.

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Bucks County Preserves

Iconic Bucks County is under threat, but some landowners are taking action by investing in their own nature preserves.

One 80-acre owner is reversing the effects of barberry infestation by installing reforestation nucleation cells. Another is restoring 7-acres with meadow and WildLawn installations. Another is restoring an historic pawpaw and American plum habitat.

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!

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Botanical Preserves

This landowner showed that you don’t need multiple acres to create a meaningful impact. Through creativity and persistence, ArcheWild converted a once sterile 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.

To maximize structure and access, conservation efforts, and to protect the investment, the construction team helped install natural deer protection, a permeable driveway, and many other landscape features.

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Nature Preserves

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.

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2191 Hillcrest Rd
Quakertown, PA  18951

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