Invest in Your Dreams – Bring your property to life
Whether in-person or virtual, My consultations aim to help you become more confident with your garden, connect with your landscape and make a plan to move forward with your vision.
Do you have a New Property or a Vision for Creating an Ecological Homestead, but lack the clarity, experience or skills? This consultation service is designed for you.
With the practical experience of setting up homesteads, living a permaculture lifestyle and a decades of living in the Rogue Valley, I can guide you through retrofitting your site to meet your dreams and goals.
Want to be more self reliant? I can help you make a plan to produce enough food to feed yourself for most of the year or just get started with a small garden area.
Are you a home buyer who needs help selecting the right property? As a resident of the Rogue Valley for 30 years, I understand the climate, the community and the resources here. Take me with you during your property showing.
During a consultation I will visit your property, We can discuss the possibilities that fit who you are and what is appropriate for your site. I offer you my tool kit of practical permaculture and my wisdom gathered from decades of working intimately with the land.
FAQ:
- What this possible on my property?
- Are my ideas realistic?
- Where do I start?
- What order should I do things?
- What can i do for a privacy screen?
- Where should I plant the fruit trees?
- What is a weed and what plants should stay?
- How do I make my landscape easier to take care of?
- What is wrong with my irrigation system?
Elements to consider for your site:
- Move towards a more self sufficient lifestyle
- Be nourished by a year round garden
- Retrofit your property to be more productive
- Create an attractive, edible and medicinal landscape
- How to restore fertility and build soil health
- Learn the components of a drought-proof landscape
- Determine the best irrigation for your situation
- Create Pollinator Gardens and Beneficial Insect Habitat
- Manage rainwater – address drainage
- Pace yourself – minimize overwhelm
What is the difference between a Site Consultation and Property Assessment Package?
- Site Consultation (Hourly Rate):
- 1-hour or 2-hour sessions
- On-site walk-and-talk, property observation using permaculture principles, and vision refinement.
- Property Assessment Package (Comprehensive Package):
- In addition to a 2-hour on-site consultation, the Package Includes a base map (simple Google map overlay – not to scale) and a design questionnaire to clarify your goals and help me understand your situation (sent via email),
- Provides a more thorough evaluation of your property using permaculture principles and helps prioritize short- and long-term projects.
Property Assessment Package Includes More:
- Base map
- Questionaire
- On-site Consultation
Base Map – I will draw simple Google map overlay that is not to scale. This gives us a proportional, birds-eye view of your home and the land around it. This map can be enlarged or reduced and copied to facilitate design sketches.
Questionnaire – Before our visit I will ask you to fill out a design questionnaire, which I will review before our meeting. This will help refine your goals and start the process of clarifying your landscape vision before I arrive. This is especially helpful for couples to complete together before we meet.
On-site 2 hr Consultation – We will walk and talk together, gathering an evaluation of your property using permaculture principles and strategies. I will help you articulate your plan, determine the short term projects and the long term goals.
We will explore what is possible given the energy and resources available. Always taking into consideration what the land emulates.
I invite you to create a list of questions for our meeting. You may also record or video the meeting, so you can get the most from it.
Virtual Garden Consultations
