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Imagine living in a place where lush gardens provide food, medicine, and habitat, people share the bounties of their gardens with neighbors, where water from roof tops is stored for later use and incorporated into flowing pools of reflection, and water from domestic use and driveways is channeled into biological filtration systems, conserving precious nutrients and water while feeding the bountiful habitat gardens and decreasing the pollution down stream. As gardens and backyard ecosystems mature and more households join in the fun, entire neighborhoods take on an air of refreshment and fulfillment, cottage industries spring from creative use of resources being grown locally, and hard earned money is circulated among community members first to spur further local ecological development. The ultimate results becoming many-fold as social life is stimulated, ecological integrity is regenerated, local economies flourishing as the capacity of individuals and communities to rekindle a symbiotic relationship with place is sparked.
Imagine further that in the process of growing diverse gardens, managing on-site water, and designing landscapes that welcome, even encourage, people to find a deeper connection to life, some of the destructive practices degrading the quality of life for all become obsolete. Violence and crime rates go down as people are engaged in their community and given opportunities to share in the abundance that results. Greenhouse gas emissions decline drastically as the average distance food and resources are transported plummets and their use is made more efficient. Further declines are achieved as petrochemicals formerly used in agriculture and land management are phased out in favor of biological measures and better management practices, saving our bodies, air, and waterways from a mˇlange of toxic chemicals. With better management of water on site comes decreased strain on municipal water systems, equating to another opportunity to redirect resources towards further ecological improvements. Residential energy use declines through strategic landscaping and efficiency measures, effectively plugging an economic drain on the community and creating a sector for growth. As with other natural systems, the evolving human ecology continually cycles, providing unexpected and often magical pathways as it goes. Would you like to take a stroll down this path?