Hoosierhillsinc - Landscape Designer

There is nothing like thoughtful design to get a project going.
We support that at Terra Nova. We are proud to have on our team landscape designer Jerob Chop. Jerob is a top notch landscape designer and mural artist. Working as a team with Terra Nova owner Ken Foster, Jerob has all kinds of […]

Here’s David I. Theodoropoulos after giving a class to our Permaculture Design Course on June 22nd, 2008 on the topic of his book: Invasion Biology: Critique of A Pseudoscience
Dave gave a very interesting talk explaining the reasons why he calls invasion biology a pseudoscience.
What is invasion bioloogy? It is the attempt to address through science […]

We have been fascinated with green roofs since we first heard about them.
Terra Nova won the Sunset Magazine’s Western Living award for a garden with a green roof we did at the S.F. Flower Show in 2004.
Here we are building that garden with a green roof.

Here’s a picture of that finished garden.

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We thank everyone who voted for us for ‘Best Green Service’ in the Santa Cruz Good Times poll. We will do our best to live up to this honor. Although we have been in the Ecological Landscaping business for twenty years we promise not to rest on our laurels!
From all of us at Terra Nova […]

Our Permaculture design groups working/playing in the sand with their projects.

Tom Broz of Live Earth Farm giving a talk about his farm’s solar panels.

Brian Barth giving a talk at the Mataganza Garden Sanctuary.

Heather Flores author of Food Not Lawns teaching a class on seed saving.

Read the Book ! Food Not Lawns
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Pictures from 4-11-08 To learn more about bees buzz here. Call us at 831-425-3514
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Taught by local Ecological Design experts Heather Coburn Flores, Ken Foster, Lizandro Salazar and Lydia Neilsen.
Friday, 2-6 PM Work Party. Help establish sustainable water cycles on an evolving 4 acre site in Soquel. Free.
Saturday, 2-6PM Introduction to Permaculture Design,
with Heather Flores author of Food Not Lawns, How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and […]

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Larry Santoyo will be joining local Santa Cruz Permaculture teachers including Ken Foster, Lydia Neilsen, Bruce Beernink and Brian Barth and Heather Flores for a Permaculture Design Course begining February 16th and 17th, 2008. The third weekend of each month:
February - July 2008 Tuition : $90.00 per day* $175.00 per weekend $950.00 for […]

This is a video that one of our designers, Treesa Rogerson, put together. Most of the photos of landscapes in this video are jobs that Terra Nova installed from a design created by Treesa. Treesa is a a joy to work with, she’s a bright spirit and she knows her stuff. She comes highly recommended. […]