Bringing ecological restoration to you

Ungardening is three things.

It is a native plant nursery, growing the most locally native plants possible.

It is a yard consultant, working to help you reconnect your property to the environment around you.

It is an educational resource, leading talks, workshops, and walks on a variety of natural topics.

Ungardening believes that any property, no matter how small, can become a functioning part of the broader ecosystem. Habitat fragmentation and invasive species are some of the biggest threats facing our native flora and fauna. Ungardening seeks to help people battle these threats by utilizing the ideas of environmental restoration at the scale of a private yard, or even a planter! Every native plant planted, or allowed to thrive, helps to rebuild a functioning environment. Ungardening believes that by working together we can reverse some of the damage done by the garden industrial complex.

Ungardening is located in Durham, Connecticut, on former Wangunk hunting grounds, just southwest of the Wangunk village of Coginchaug, now Miller’s Pond State Park and the surrounding area.

Check out these interviews and talks!

Chit-Chatting and Questioning the World

In Love with Native Plants on the In Defense of Plants Podcast

Ungardening with Aubree Keurajian on the Fowl Mouths Podcast (explicit)

Wildlife Inspired with Scott Keys

Intro to Ungardening Zoom talk presented by the Lewisboro Garden Club

Ungardening was founded in 2018 by Ecologist Aubree Keurajian. Keurajian has a B.S. in the Science of Natural and Environmental Systems, from Cornell University. After doing forest ecology research in academia and arid land restoration in the public sector, she founded Ungardening Native Plants in her hometown of Durham, CT. Keurajian also currently works as a field scientist for a local environmental firm, primarily doing botanical and other environmental compliance surveys.

Ungardening is currently a sole proprietorship business, but we’re working on becoming a nonprofit. We collect our parent plant material from Town of Durham, Connecticut public lands with permission from the Town of Durham Conservation Commission, as well as from private properties with landowner permissions.