Where beauty and sustinability meet.
Who is Terra Vita?
SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE
Terra Vita Garden and Design is a small locally owned and operated gardening company operating in the Capital Regional District of BC. We are a sustainable and environmentally proactive company who care about what we do and how we do it! We bring intelligence and integrity to how we care for your garden and focus on bridging the gap between beautiful innovative designs and sustainable functional management, Our goal is to connect people and plants through intentional designs and future friendly land care.
We believe the best landscapes are alive with seasonal colour, support our ecosystem, visually stunning and functional to you and your lifestyle.
We specialize in building and maintaining gardens that are drought tolerant, deer resistant, pollinator supporting, seasonally vibrant, organic, and above all else low maintenance.
Meet Jenelle
Owner and Principal DesignerJenelle’s passion for the natural world is the foundation of Terra Vita and her work as a designer. Jenelle’s design work is driven by textures, seasonal colour and supporting the innate beauty of healthy and resilient ecosystems. Jenelle values the uniqueness of each garden and clients she works with and brings these customized elements into her design work. Jenelle has a college diploma in landscape horticulture from the Pacific Horticulture College, a BA in Environmental Management from Royal Roads University, and a certificate in Community Herbalism. Jenelle believes that creating sustainable gardens plays a key role in restoring environmental and cultural well-being.
Meet Cory
Team Lead and ConsultantCory has long since aligned with organic practices and holistic approaches to growing and maintaining plants, having maintained food and ornamental crops organically for over half of his life. He is a certified Organic Horticultural Technician, Rainwater Harvesting Systems and Civil Engineering Technologies specialist with a diverse professional background in organic food production, horticulture, floriculture and nursery production. Cory also owns and operates two small scale vegetable productions on Vancouver Island which keeps him inspired, humbled and busy away from Terra Vita. Primarily Cory acts as our team lead in the field and is integral to many of Terra Vita’s maintenance processes and installation projects.
Meet our growing team!
We are so grateful to have a caring and knowledgeable team here at Terra Vita build up by a talented group of horticulturalists, farmers and all around plant nerds. We are also proud of our wonderful, lasting partnerships with different specialists in our community. We work together to ensure we offer the best possible team for your specific project or garden needs.