our philosophy
Growing Gardens. Harvesting Joy.
Seeds to Smiles recognizes the power of nature to impact how we feel at any given moment. As a culture, we are spending more and more time inside, cutting ourselves off from the potential smiles that we can unearth if we just stepped outside.
But often in our places of work and community, going outside is unappealing or feels impossible. Seeds to Smiles goes beyond basic landscaping to create garden spaces that strengthen your community and best serve the people you care about, whether they are students, patients, clients, or employees.
Mission
To create customized outdoor garden spaces that are beautiful, functional, and interactive; to inspire communities to connect with what is right outside their own doors; to give people the tools they need to feel empowered to incorporate those spaces into their daily activities.
Vision
Campuses that hold large buildings often have a lot of underutilized outdoor space that could be transformed to better serve the ecosystem outside as well as the people inside. Traditional landscaping enables people to view the outdoors like a museum – something to be seen and not felt or experienced. Outdoor growing spaces that welcome and inspire people to exist differently outside will better serve the employees, students, patients, and clients that use these buildings.
central to our work
Community – before any garden design is on the table, we take the time to immerse ourselves in your organization, survey the people in your orbit, and evaluate your goals and capacity. We then work with members of your community to build and plant the garden, and we offer in-depth training to key members that we help identify as caretakers.
Environmental regeneration – we are committed to teaching you how to use your garden without relying on harmful synthetic chemicals or fertilizers, and we also prioritize reintroducing native species back into the ecosystem
Function – your garden spaces should fit your reality, and we design all parts of our spaces to serve a purpose that forwards your specific goals
Beauty – a garden should recapture your sense of childlike wonder and imagination, and we incorporate both natural and handmade artistic elements into our designs to draw people outside