About Urban Village Designs LLC
Urban Village Designs (UVD) works with land, people, and organizations as living systems—always in relationship and always evolving. Rooted in permaculture, our work focuses on long-term stewardship, holistic design, education, and organizational resilience to support healthy, abundant, and regenerative places to live and work. We partner with people in their gardens and shared landscapes, and with stewardship-based organizations, to cultivate care practices that honor the relationships between soil, water, plants, animals, and the human communities that tend them.
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Learn more about our wife and husband team.
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Our practice has evolved from a traditional landscaping model into a stewardship-based and systems-oriented approach grounded in care, learning, and co-creation. Rather than treating landscapes or organizations as static projects, we work with them as living systems—observing, listening, adapting, and tending relationship over time. This means designing with the rhythms of place, supporting ecological health on the land, and strengthening the internal systems that allow stewardship work to be sustained within organizations.
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Education is woven through everything we do. Through site-based learning, workshops and seasonal learning series, one-on-one consultations, and organizational facilitation, we share permaculture as a practical and relational framework for designing with living systems. Whether in a backyard, a community garden, or a board room, our hope is to support people and organizations in building lasting relationships with place, with each other, and with the more-than-human world.
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Our mission is to cultivate resilient, abundant, and regenerative relationships between people, land, and organizations through permaculture design, stewardship, education and organizational consulting.​
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We have never worked with a company exhibiting the diligence, integrity and communication skills of UVD, and we’ve worked with many, in several states. They were transparent and up-front about costs and timelines, and the likelihood of divergence (and its potential cost/benefit) from those things. In sum, they are the very definition of professionalism. Personally, I’ve never met more likable, personable, trustworthy people - we gave them free rein of our property, inside and out. Last, but not least, we felt like their pricing was fair and reasonable. Anyone in need of a highly professional, reasonable, talented landscape company with a focus on creating beneficial habitat for birds and pollinators could do no better than to utilize this dynamic young company. They're a class act in every sense of the word.
-Chris H.
