Tax Deductible Land Donation
Thank you for considering donating land to Healing Ecosystems! We are a 501c3 non profit seeking to establish land trusts in Western North Carolina to preserve and promote biodiversity & food security. Our mission is to support ecological & communal health by empowering people to steward their bioregions. Your donation supports this mission by giving us land to tend, which serves as a living classroom for our community.
Putting your property or part of your property into a trust ensures it will be taken care while also providing many tax benefits including lowering your property taxes and earning deductions and credits for state and federal taxes. This will also relieve the burden of individuals or families needing to tend land as it becomes a collective effort through our non-profit.
Ideal Land Critera (please reach out even if your land doesn’t fit all criteria):
At least 5 acres
Within Madison, Yancey or Buncombe County
Includes mixed woodland, potential grassland and riparian area
Accessible parking for hosting events
Potential for a modest footprint of livable structures on the land-
Has invasive plants. Part of our mission is to steward land for native biodiversity and show ways of managing invasives with natural methods
If you’d like to explore the possibility of donating land further, please fill out this brief questionnaire by clicking here.
Previous land Projects
California Water Rebate Lawn Conversions
Healing Ecosystems converted many lawns throughout the Bay Area into drought-tolerant landscapes full of native plants & fruit trees. Homeowners were incentivized by a state-sponsored program which paid them to convert lawns into water-resilient spaces.
This particular project turned from a dyin bermuda-grass nightmare into a lush habitat with fruit trees and pollinator plants.
Post-Install Landscape
We used deep mulch, native plants & fruit trees to get this landscape started. Pineapple guava, olives, native sages, wildflowers and bunch grasses were our first plantings. Check out what it turned into below…
7 years later
The landscape is filled in, creating a privacy oasis from a busy street + a living example of how beautiful native landscaping can be. The trees produce fruit for people, flowers for pollinators, habitat for birds and requires way less maintenance than a grass lawn.
Breaking ground on the Biomass Beds at Gill Tract Community Farm circa 2012
The Biomass Beds grew into a thriving community food forest in an urban area in Berkeley, CA.
Bryan Bramlett, founder of Healing Ecosystems, managed this space with support from many volunteers from 2016-2020