Let’s turn Denver into an oasis for native plants, butterflies, and birds.
Our volunteer and refugee crews help neighbors replace unused grass with native plants for a fraction of the normal cost.
Nature in Your Yard
Oasis is an urban habitat restoration project to turn Denver into a gigantic botanic garden. Imagine drinking your morning coffee and watching hummingbirds sip from beautiful native flowers and taking your daily walk through a neighborhood transformed into a vast Oasis of native plants, butterflies, and birds. That’s our vision. Volunteer with us or get plants in your yard and let’s make it happen.
Year-Round Habitat Restoration
Planting primarily happens during the spring & fall seasons. In the off-season, we keep busy with other hardscaping work like pergolas, paths, and planters, so you can enjoy your yard year-round. Learn more about the process.
As of May 1st, we are in Spring Planting Mode.
Native plants are beautiful, low-maintenance, and low-cost. They sip water and butterflies, bees, & birds love them.
Kentucky Bluegrass, by contrast, is a voracious water consumer, costs a lot to maintain, and is “ecologically, dead space” in terms of biodiversity.
Fill out our request form and we’ll schedule a call to discuss your project!
Let’s Plant Your Yard
If your goals and vision align with our approach, we will set up an in-person visit to measure the site & discuss design ideas.
On game day, our volunteers or refugee crew will start the process of transforming your yard into a native plant habitat.
For our volunteer projects, we cover all costs. For our paid projects, you cover the costs of materials, and labor for our refugee crew, to whom we’re providing needed work opportunities.
Our Refugee Crew
Through our friends at the African Community Center, a refugee resettlement agency, we connected with our crew, who supported the US military in Afghanistan.
Volunteer With Us
Our volunteers make it happen. We get together about once a month to roll up our sleeves, get our hands in the dirt, and scheme about how to turn Denver into a gigantic botanic garden. It’s fun, good for the environment, and a great way to build community.
Oasis Habitat Restoration to Date
How it Started
Deb (hard at work shoveling on the left), West Wash Park’s resident Mayor of Plants, is always out in her front yard working and chatting with folks as they walk by. Many of them say something to the effect of, “I’d love to do this to my yard, but I don’t know how to do it.” So we decided to create a corps of volunteers who care about the local environment, plants, birds, bees, butterflies, and the such to help neighbors dream the impossible dream. Bit by bit, the project grew and we needed a full-time crew, so we worked with our friend at the African Community Center, a refugee resettlement organization, to build a paid crew. We still do monthly volunteer projects, so volunteer with us, even if you have no experience with this stuff, and help us turn West Wash Park and Denver at large into an Oasis.
Learn more about our work in the West Wash Park Neighborhood Association newsletter.
Deb’s Sustainable Gardening Top 10 List
DIY Oasis
We’re totally supportive of DIY projects so, here’s what we’ve learned about how to create an Oasis. Of course, if you want our volunteer or refugee crew to take it on, fill out our form and we’ll be in touch.