About Basalt Mountain Gardens
Our Mission
At Basalt Mountain Gardens, our mission is to inspire and co-create beautiful, inviting, and interactive spaces that bring joy, connection, learning, healing, and relaxation into everyday life. Inspired by Mother Nature, we cultivate gardens as sanctuaries - oases for people, animals, honeybees, songbirds, and wildlife alike.
We believe gardening is a way of life - meant to be experienced daily, in your tea, on your plate, as medicine, and in your vase.
Our Services
We offer a wide range of gardening and land-based services, including garden coaching, mentoring, consultation, design, installation, and site-specific recommendations. Our work spans homestead planning and systems such as greenhouses and hoop houses, root cellars, saunas and hot tubs, off-grid infrastructure, therapeutic and children’s gardens, living green roofs, and harvesting practices.
We also support hands-on skills including beekeeping, composting, preserving, tea herb drying, and floristry. Our gardens and projects can be found across the valley in commercial properties, public spaces, private residences, and working homesteads.
Sustainability & Land Stewardship
At Basalt Mountain Gardens, our stewardship is rooted in organic, homeodynamic, and permaculture principles, guided by long-term relationship with the land. We design closed-loop garden systems that build soil health, biodiversity, and resilience by reintegrating resources back into the living system.
Through our practice of coherence agriculture, we work with natural patterns, timing, and human presence to create landscapes that are both productive and restorative. The result is gardens that nourish people and place-ecologically sound, visually harmonious, and alive with purpose.
THe design team
Our Story
More than 30 years ago, Robb and Ginger began at 9,400 feet, living in a tipi and experimenting with growing food and building shelter in extreme alpine conditions. Inspired by Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual, what began as curiosity became a lifelong practice of learning directly from the land through observation, trial, and care.
Long before finding the land that would become Basalt Mountain Gardens, Robb had drawn a detailed homestead design. Years later, stepping onto this property, they realized the land mirrored that early vision-almost exactly.
Together, they built an off-grid, solar- and hydro-powered homestead by hand, guided by a shared commitment to food sovereignty, beauty, and community. Through decades of lived experience, they learned that regenerative systems can thrive even in harsh mountain climates.
Today, Basalt Mountain Gardens is more than a place of beauty-it is a living ecosystem and a source of nourishment, learning, and contribution to family, community, and the land itself.
our creations and collaborations
true nature PEACE GARDEN
HOMESTEAD GARDENS
greenhouses
NATURAL SWIMMING POOL
Stewardship of Land, Water, and Community
Seven Springs Conservancy
Your support helps sustain this work - caring for the land and waters maintaining gardens while creating opportunities for learning, connection, and renewal. Contributions support land stewardship, infrastructure, educational gatherings, and the people who help tend the soil and plants.