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◆ Direct action for the block

Your front yard can change this city.
We make that change affordable.

Houston is mostly private ground: front yards. When one becomes a healthy garden, the whole block benefits. We help you make yours real, whatever you start with.

A Houston front yard at dawn. Hands in soil in the foreground, inland sea oats arching through the frame, a wooden front porch in soft focus behind.
◆ THE WHOLE PLAN

Four ways the numbers change.

The affordability system, on one page. Four movements; step into any of them.

The vision · a garden within a mile

Every garden, built from its own mile.

Each garden composed, as far as it can be, from what its own mile already holds. The neighbour who prunes. The drill that sleeps in a garage most of the year. The grower with a side yard of one-gallon natives. The grandmother who remembers what bloomed here before turfgrass.

The people

Skills within walking distance. The neighbour who prunes, the mason two streets over. Hands that get named, credited, and paid.

The tools

Most tools sleep in garages. Shared within the mile, fewer things are bought twice and more things circulate.

The money

What used to leave the block as a maintenance contract stays as wages, skill fees, and tool shares. Circulation, not extraction.

One radius, three returns: social, cultural, economic. We print the distance the way we print species and dates, only when it is true.

Measured, not promised

We name the number, the place, and the date.

9°F
cooler than the nearest pavement at Sanctuary #004 in Montrose.
Measured, summer 2025.
1 min
barefoot on living soil is an immune input, not a metaphor.
Roslund et al., 2020, Science Advances.
3
traditions held in the brand at full saturation, each one credited by name.
Mesoamerican · Andean · Mexican folk.
Live data from the Holon Gardens network
13
Active Gardens
7
Stewards
5,653
Sq Ft Restored
130,019
Gal Water Captured
2,070
Lbs CO₂ Offset
125
Native Species Tracked

The lawn is a default. A garden is a decision.

Host a garden, support the network, or learn the work. We will name the species, the time, and the hands.

◆ TALK TO A PERSON

Your question reaches a person.

Ask about your yard, the network, or how any of this works. We answer, usually the same day.

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