2023 ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP RECIPIENT

January 1, 2023
Palo Alto, California

Happy New Year! Today we are proud to announce the recipient of our 2023 charitable Environmental Stewardship campaign.

Each year, in alignment with our core value of Stewardship, Verdance donates at least 10% of our profits to environmentally-focused organizations whose work complements our own.

For 2023 we are pleased to begin putting our support behind Pollinator Partnership (P2). Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and birds are vital to not only our food supply but also our very existence on Earth, and P2 works around the world to support pollinator species by protecting their habitat, consulting with farmers and land managers, and educating the public.

P2 provides an incredibly useful series of planting guides that we use for reference in developing our landscape designs. The guides are broken out into three dozen North American ecoregions, and provide lists of plants that are particularly attractive to pollinators native to those regions. We are especially fond of the “California Coastal Chapparal” and “California Coastal Woodlands” guides, but also refer to the “American Semi-Desert” guide in preparation for the warmer, drier climate that future us will be designing in.

Verdance will make a regular contribution to P2 each month of 2023 and beyond, rather than a larger single donation, to help provide them with stable, predictable revenue. We feel honored to be able to help Pollinator Partnership achieve their mission, and grateful that their work enables ours.