We believe that by creating eclogically sound gardens, we are opening spaces of hope and abundance that can restore our ecological and spiritual ecosystems.
Our mission is to spread the healing principles of how to connect with natural ecosystems in a reciprocal way, so that every person, family and community can experience the transformative power of nature at their doorstep.
‘Many people think that regenerative gardening is about not touching the earth or that it looks messy. But regenerative gardening is about structured wildness. We need to see ourselves as the gardeners of the earth. We can actually reverse climate change and restore biodiversity by interacting with nature.’
Spirit of the Garden was founded by Guillaume Maitre who was born and raised on a small farm in the French Alps. The seeds for his passion for gardening can be traced back to his childhood where his father taught him the foundations of a natural approach to tending to the earth and the creatures that live there.
In 2014, Guillaume found himself in the UK and started his career as a gardener by maintaining traditional English gardens. The main goal of this paradigm is to establish gardens to a high standard through intense maintenance and control. In the years that followed, he experimented with permaculture principles and came to realise that there was a better way of interacting with the gardens that he was maintaining. Guillaume started proposing different approaches to his clients that reduced maintenance, energy, and money that went into their gardens. This realisation profoundly shifted his gardening paradigm towards regeneration giving way to the creation of ‘The Spirit of the Garden.’
