DESIGN & CONSULTATION FOR GARDENS, HOMESTEADS, & SMALL FARMS
Whether you are looking to create one garden bed to beautify your home, or build a bountiful small farm or homestead, I can help with the planning and design process. Thoughtful planning can save you time, money, and energy with your future garden or farm. I work with the grower and the environment to create landscapes that are bountiful, beautiful, & low maintenance.
Services are completely customized for a tailored experience that includes exactly what you need, and nothing you don’t. Choose from a la carte services, or contact me to get a custom package deal.
Design & Consultation Services
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Home Gardens
Start or improve your garden, enhance the beauty & biodiversity of your backyard, or create a low-maintenance, eco-friendly landscape. I offer customized design plans for annual vegetables, perennial fruits & trees, flowers, and small livestock.
-Boost your backyard biodiversity with beautiful plantings for wildlife and pollinators
-Blooms all season long! Flower gardens for beauty & bouquets all summer.
-Learn how to grow vegetables with minimal effort but high yields.
-Cut down on toxic chemicals and lawn maintenance by converting some or all of your grass to sustainable landscaping.
-Start a backyard food forest - fruits, veggies, herbs, and flowers from your yard all season long!
-Optimize your garden for high yields, beautification, accessibility, or other goals based on your needs & wants.
-Integrate small livestock into your home garden for meat, eggs, fertilizer, or just for fun.
With a garden design, you’ll have access to a wealth of customized resources, including:
-Design maps for garden beds of all types and sizes - learn where to plant, what to plant, and why
-Raised bed design & resources (or, order custom built raised beds)
-Crop planning & planting resources
-Seed starting techniques & resources (or, order custom seedlings)
-Fencing design & resources
-All-natural pest, weed, and disease management plans.
Scroll down to see real examples of design & consultation work.
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Homesteads
Free yourself from the confines and uncertainty of the industrial food system - grow your own!
If you are trying to sustain yourself year-round, or just wanting to grow some veggies for your family, I can help you in your self-sufficiency quest.
-Calculate yields to figure out how much food to grow to sustain your family for a month, a year, or a decade.
-Grow crops for specific purposes - canning, freezing, drying, etc.
-Learn how to integrate livestock into your homestead to optimize yields and humanely raise your own meat, eggs, & dairy.
-Create a backyard food forest for fresh eating or preserving.
-Create closed-loop cycles - optimize sustainability on your homestead to save money and lower your eco-footprint.
-Integrate season extension techniques & infrastructure to extend your harvest window and grow year-round.
Includes all of the in-depth resources available for home gardens, plus customized designs & resources specific to your homesteading needs.
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Small Farms
Grow your dream farm! I use holistic farm planning techniques to help you create an efficient, sustainable, and bountiful small farm. This method is based around your goals, your needs, and your land, and uses thoughtful observation and conversation to craft a farm that works for you.
-Soil testing & interpretation
-Material resource recommendations and sources
-Seed starting interactive resources
-Crop planning interactive resources
-Mapping
-Grant funding resources and assistance
-Infrastructure resources
-Editable documentation for record-keeping & analysis
-Small livestock integration plans
-Sustainable techniques for weed, disease, and pest management
Specialties: Cut flowers, vegetables, specialty crops, herbs, perennial fruits, small livestock, hops, & more.
Scroll down to see real examples of design & consultation work.
Permaculture guild based around a native Concord grape plants. This guild will provide food, flowers, insect & wildlife habitat, and fertilize itself for a low maintenance, beautiful mini-food forest.
These sunflower rows use strip tilling to reduce erosion and make weed management easier.
Drip irrigation increases yields and decreases disease and wasted water.
Mulches suppress weeds, aid in soil moisture retention, and prevent erosion.
Ginger is a specialty crop that grows great in a hoop house or other protected environment.
Pigs can have many functions on the homestead or farm, besides cuteness.
Biodegradable plastic mulches can warm the soil for heat-loving crops and help suppress weeds.
This guild of berries, currants, and acid-loving herbs is the perfect complement to a lilac and spruce background.
Actual design example from a flower farm/homestead in southern NH.
Small flower farm & home garden on the seacoast of NH, during the construction phase of the garden build.
This editable spreadsheets calculated yields of plants & cut flowers based upon the year's harvest records.
Design & resources for installing a drainage ditch and a semi-self-watering berm housing perennial plantings.
Let’s grow together.
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401-486-2270