About Us

“Restoring Nature where we live, work and play”

The High Plains Environmental Center is a non-profit (501c3.) Rooted in High Plains Village, at Centerra, in Loveland, HPEC offers an unusual model for sustaining nature in the midst of development. HPEC engages developers, builders, businesses and residents in making their community a ‘living laboratory’ that provides integrated, leading edge examples of community design, land stewardship, eco-literacy and sustainable living that are grounded in reality and replicable.

HPEC is an ideal field trip destination for students of all ages and offers public education programs in the following area.

• Vegetable Gardening
• Composting
• Vermiculture
• Sustainable Horticulture – (Plant Select Garden Site)
• Cultivating Native Plants
• Wildlife
• Aquaponics
• Wetlands Ecology
• Sustainable Living
• Art in Nature

Each year volunteers donate over 3000 hours to HPEC helping us accomplish our habitat restoration and gardening projects. Find out more about HPEC by becoming a fan on Facebook