Restore your land
the natural way.
At Diversity Landworks, we use targeted grazing and prescribed fire to restore the natural beauty and biological diversity of landscapes choked by buckthorn, wild parsnip, and other pernicious invasive species.
Does fighting invasives feel
Overwhelming?
You cut the buckthorn; it grows back thicker. Your woods get darker and more choked every season; meanwhile, you see fewer native wildflowers, birds, and pollinators. As much time and money as you spend fighting invasives, restoring a vibrant, beautiful landscape feels impossible.
Traditional methods treat symptoms, not causes. Cutting and spraying might clear growth temporarily, but without addressing why invasive species took over in the first place, you're locked in an endless, expensive cycle.
In the war against invasives,
fight smarter, not harder.
For thousands of years, large herds of grazing animals worked alongside fire to keep prairie and forest ecosystems healthy. The loss of these natural agents of renewal left the door wide open for invasive species.
At Diversity Landworks, we’ve been successfully eradicating invasive species like buckthorn by using nature’s best tools. Bringing animals back to the land is a necessary step to achieve biodiverse native landscapes.
Combat invasives the natural way.
Since 2013, Diversity Landworks has been healing and restoring natural landscapes with targeted grazing, prescribed fire, and mechanical clearing. Each landscape is unique, which is why we develop a custom long-term ecological management plan for each project.
Our goats are specially bred, trained, and selected for your particular terrain. Over multiple seasons, they devastate invasives’ energy reserves, eliminating them from the landscape and restoring your land’s natural beauty and diversity.
Read more about our approach on the How It Works page.
trusted by professional land managers.
Founded by Kyle Johnson and Tim Taylor in 2013, Diversity Landworks was the first to bring prescribed grazing to Minnesota. Over the years, we have worked with The Nature Conservancy, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minneapolis Parks and Great River Greening, as well as private and residential land owners.
Diversity Landworks is the Midwest’s land restoration leader. Whether we’re managing 2 or 2,000 acres, or restoring a private woodlot, we bring deep experience and ecological expertise to move your land from neglect back to a state of diverse, bountiful health.
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DiversityLandworks@gmail.com
507-556-4420
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See how we work.
Watch Kyle and Tim in the field, where they explain how their process mimics nature’s age-old methods for maintaining ecological balance.