Consultants & Contractors
Land Rehydration
Biodiversity
Recommend holistic strategies that incorporate the principles of regenerative agriculture to improve the natural health and biodiversity of plant, animal and soil microorganism communities. Based near Driftwood.
Ecosystem Regenerative Artisans (ERA)
Provides consultations and watershed analyses, and develops plans that improve water management, native plant diversity, and wildlife habitat. Includes a small native plant nursery. Located in San Marcos.
Symbiosis Texas
Full service plan-design-build company specializing in reviving degraded, overworked, overgrazed landscapes and bringing them back into ecological abundance by improving the water and soil cycles and overall biodiversity for central Texas.
Van Dyck Earthworks
Survey, construct, and plant berms/swales and gabions on contour to slow down and redirect stormwater flows. Based in Blanco/Dripping Springs.
Soil Analysis & Management
Biodiversity
Recommend holistic strategies that incorporate the principles of regenerative agriculture to improve the natural health and biodiversity of plant, animal and soil microorganism communities. Based near Driftwood.
Green Cow Compost
Producer of bulk dairy cow compost, soils, and mulch that’s teaming with microbes, nutrients, and organic matter to help create healthier soil. Located in Dublin.
Rhizos
Soil health specialists providing insight into soil biological, chemical, and physical properties. Reports tailored per client’s understanding. Based near Austin.
Soil Again
Biological soil analyses using the Soil Food Web paradigm. Will travel up to 50 miles from Cedar Park to collect samples. Based in Cedar Park.
Laurel Robertson (email)
Provides analyses using the Soil Food Web paradigm. Based in Dripping Springs.
Understanding Ag
A regenerative agricultural consulting company that provides the support and confidence to help their clients reduce input costs, generate actual profits, and ensure family farming futures. In short, their goal is to put more money in the landowner’s pocket. Based in Republic, Missouri.
Karst Analysis & Remediation
Hauwert Environmental Services, LLC
Licensed geoscientist provides geological assessments, water flow measurements, cave drip flow monitoring, and environmental resources inventories. Works to restore groundwater hydrology of caves, sinkholes, and springs. Based in Austin.
Karst Works, Inc.
Provides services in limestone (karst) and fractured rock terrains. Specializes in tracer (dye) testing, sinkhole remediation, source water protection planning, and hazardous materials response plans, and monitoring program designs. Based in San Antonio.
Texas Cave Management Association
Acquires, maps, conserves, and manages caves and promotes research and education about caves and karst. Based in San Antonio.
Ecosystem Management
LAND STEWARD
Catering to Texas landowners who want a site-specific plan to help them be better land stewards. Our approach is to first determine what the land can provide, then establish goals. We work for individual landowners, real estate agents, agencies, and developers. Based in Austin.
Native American Seed
Making lands more native and better than they were found. Offers native
seeds and live roots, and ecological consulting and planning. Based in Junction.
Steve Nelle (email)
Works as a landowner consultant based on his belief that God created everything that we call “Nature”, and that God placed humans in a position of responsible stewardship over creation. Based in San Angelo.
Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Healing (TCIKH)
Working to develop a harmonious relationship with nature to help us can begin to restore equilibrium, as individuals, and as a human collective. They see relationship building, intertribal/cross-cultural exchange, and a return to nature/Indigenous life-ways as integral steps in this direction. Based in central Texas.
Watershed Planning
Aquastrategies
Engineering firm working with clients to promote healthy watersheds, focusing on water quality and water quantity issues. Based in Dripping Springs.
Wildlife Management Plans
Landmark Wildlife Management, LLC
Biologist owned and operated company providing landowners with land and wildlife management expertise and tax valuations to enhance wildlife, recreation, watershed, economic, and enjoyment of their land. Based in Austin.
Plateau
Certified Arborists
Arbor Vitae Tree Care
Austin area.
Burkett Arbor Care
Boerne area.
Green Tree Co.
Bertram area.
Suppliers
Seed & Live Root Products
Bambert Seed Company
With seven decades of experience, a plethora of knowledge, and a state-of-the-art seed cleaning facility, Bamert Seed is ready to meet your every need. Located in Muleshoe, Texas.
Douglass King Seeds
Works closely with land managers to provide the best seed products on the market. Based in San Antonio.
Native American Seed
Making lands more native and better than they were found. Offers native seeds and live roots. Ecological consulting and planning. Based in Junction.
Plant Nurseries
Ecosystem Regenerative Artisans (ERA)
Provides consultations and watershed analyses, and develops plans that improve water management, native plant diversity, and wildlife habitat. Includes a small native plant nursery. Located in San Marcos.
Friendly Natives
Sells Texas Hill Country native plants. Located in Fredericksburg.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Sells native plants to the public and members in spring and fall. Located in Austin.
Medina Gardens Nursery
Sells Texas Hill Country native plants. Located in Medina.
Natives of Texas
Sells wholesale and retail plants that are native to the Texas Hill Country region. Located near Kerrville.
Wright’s Nursery
Sells regional native plants. Located in Briggs.
Education & Research
Local Workshops & Presentations
Hays County Master Naturalists
Provides training and volunteer opportunities to individuals who desire to learn about and promote the preservation, protection, sustainable use, and maintenance of our natural resources.
LAND STEWARD
Catering to Texas landowners who want a site-specific plan to help them be better land stewards. Our approach is to first determine what the land can provide, then establish goals. We work for individual landowners, real estate agents, agencies, and developers.
RHIZOS
Soil health specialists providing insight into soil biological, chemical, and physical properties. Reports tailored per client’s understanding. Based near Austin.
Roam Ranch
Working ranch making lands more native and better than they were found. Native seeds and roots supplier. Ecological consulting and planning, based in Junction.
Texas Cave Management Association
Acquires, maps, conserves, and manages caves and promotes research and education about caves and karst. Based in San Antonio.
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
Providing all peoples of Texas, a chance to interact and understand the iYANE’E/buffalo and the native peoples of Texas history and culture.
Van Dyck Earthworks
Survey, construct, and plant berms/swales and gabions on contour to slow down and redirect stormwater flows. Based in Blanco/Dripping Springs.
Conservation, Research & Outreach
Balcones Canyonland Preserve
Division of Austin Water that manages more than 14,000 acres of protected forests, caves, springs, and creeks across western Austin. Uses regenerative strategies to restore water basin health and resilience.
Comal Conservation
Conservation, Education: A volunteer driven grassroots nonprofit that works to preserve land, water, and wildlife in Comal County, Texas. Its work is vital to the protection of our crystal-clear rivers ensuring that the springs which sustain them continue to flow and fuel our local economies.
Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance (GEAA)
Nonprofit that protects Edwards Aquifer karstlands and waters. Participates in regenerative research. Located in San Antonio.
Hill Country Headwaters Conservation Initiative
NRCS (NCPP)/ Hill Country Conservancy nonprofit program provides financial assistance and technical support for qualified Hill Country landowners.
Kiss The Ground
Nonprofit promoting regenerative agriculture awareness, education, and training. Working to increase government funding to transition 100 million more acres to regenerative agriculture.
NATIONAL CAVE & KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NCKRI)
Nonprofit that facilitates and conducts programs in research, education, data management, and stewardship for all fields of speleology.
NCAT SOIL FOR WATER
Supports American farmers, ranchers, and managers to make lands more resilient and profitable using regenerative practices to catch and hold more water in the soil.
Noble Research Institute
Guiding farmers and ranchers since 1945 as they steward our nation’s grazing lands and provide food for families — their own and those beyond the farm gate.
TEXAS SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY (TSS)
TSS collects cave and karst data for Texas to support exploration, scientific, educational, and conservation purposes.
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
Nonprofit in Wimberley working to educate people about limestone karst and the importance of protection and sustainable management.
Wilcox Ecohydrology Lab
Part of the Texas A&M University’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, this lab run by Dr. Bradford Wilcox strives to develop a process-based understanding of socio-ecological systems for sustainably managing water resources.
Caving
Underground Texas Grotto (UTG)
Established in 1951, we are the oldest caving organization in Texas and have served as the nexus for cave exploration all over Texas and Mexico for more than fifty years. As members of this Austin-based nonprofit group, members range from total beginners to international expedition cavers.