Built America Magazine | South
That vision of accessible rootedness is baked into Terra Futura’s design. Some homes will be owner-occupied, others rentals - an intentional blend to welcome both the anchored and the transient. Here, everyone can participate in the harvest, no matter how long they stay. Designing with Nature, Not Over It The land beneath Terra Futura is steeped in story. Once a small farm, the three-acre site came with rich soil and eighty mature blueberry bushes. From the beginning, Kelsey and Jack vowed to honor what already thrived there.
“We didn’t want to lose even a single tree,” Kelsey says softly.
While building on a tight infill site has made preserving every tree impossible, they’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to transplant what they could - and even plan to craft custom woodwork from any trees that must be removed. The neighborhood’s layout is designed around conservation: two compact housing clusters flank a central green heart of community gardens and orchards. Their stormwater system is equally poetic. Instead of hiding runoff underground, Terra Futura celebrates water as part of the living landscape. Rain gardens soak water where it falls, vegetated swales slow its flow, and a constructed wetland at the lowest point becomes a habitat for birds, frogs, and pollinator plants.
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