garden sanctuaries

Creative Small-Scale Gardens for Ecological Wellbeing

Earthen Origins designs, builds, and maintains functional and diverse small-scale gardens and public green spaces, providing for people and wildlife. Each garden space is a sanctuary, connecting human bodies to the elements for wellbeing. We offer artistic solutions that beautify the intersections between nature and the built environment.

The creation of each garden is unique to the rhythms of the surrounding ecosystem. We design to align with and mimic the patterns found in nature, taking care to notice details through observation. We approach our projects with a permaculture perspective, building with minimal energy output (using mostly hand tools) and creating closed-loop regenerative practices with the land (capturing resources on site).

We build diverse gardens with native species and herbs that attract wildlife and pollinators. Our locally sourced and ethically collected plants and seeds provide resilient genetics for years to come. All of our work supports small local businesses and people who have integrity for Earth and community.

We offer design services for local residential sites, as well as small scale community based projects. During installs, we work side by side with a talented team of builders, gardeners, and artists who offer a diverse array of skillsets. We hope to collectively bring more beauty and peace to the world one garden at a time.

A yellow swallowtail butterfly enjoying wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) in one of our native pollinator gardens.

We create artistic renderings for :

Native Pollinator and Wildlife Gardens
Container Gardens
Sanctuaries for Peace and Wellbeing
Herbal Gardens
Edible Gardens
Public Garden Spaces for the Commons
Garden Murals painted with Eco-Paints (Indoor and Outdoor)
Seed Saving + Seed Packet Artwork for Sharing your Seeds

About the Designer/Gardener : Emily has a lifetime of experience working outdoors. She has worked 8+ years in the fields of organic farming & gardening, 5+ years in herbalism, 4+ years in ecological landscape design & build, and has been facilitating earth based arts through Earthen Origins for the past 5 years. Her passion is to help educate and empower people to honor the Earth.

Emily studied visual art and landscape architecture at Rutgers University for 3 years, and her passions of natural building + permaculture design in Asheville, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. She worked two years with ecological place-makers in Pennsylvania building native plant landscapes, and helped manage a variety horticultural projects in NJ. She recently helped a native plant nursery in Pennsylvania for a season, propagating thousands if native plants for ecological restoration. In 2021, she completed her permaculture design certificate through Urban Edge Farm in Lancaster, PA. Emily enjoys growing wildlife gardens, ecological art making, and creating earthen sanctuaries for people to find solace & healing in everyday life.