Where It Started

If you need an idea, go for a walk — with me.

The idea for Broad Walk Strategy was planted more than twenty-five years ago, during morning walks through Regent’s Park in London. Living in Primrose Hill, I commuted each day along the Broad Walk—an extraordinary corridor of design and horticultural care maintained by the Royal Parks. Twice a day I passed through living beauty: tulips, hawthorns, roses, and lawns so perfectly balanced they seemed to breathe.

Those walks began to change how I saw the world. They showed me that attention to the natural world is a balm against the toxicity of digital culture, and that the world would be happier, healthier, and more humane if we were simply encouraged to spend more time in green places—whether a forest, a public park, a community garden, a seashore, or a backyard.

Broad Walk Strategy was born from that belief. We work with the organizations that steward these spaces—gardens, parks, conservancies, and nonprofits—to help them grow the visibility, funding, and devotion that make their ecosystems thrive.