Onsite Consultation & Design Sessions
Have an expert come to your property to advise you.
East side Hawaii Big Island only.
At this time social distancing is required and all sessions take place outdoors.
Face masks are optional
More details below
- Find out how and where to begin growing your own food.
- Or take your existing gardens and orchards to the next level.
- Get your questions answered.
- We can help make your dreams of growing food a reality.
East side Hawaii Big Island only.
At this time social distancing is required and all sessions take place outdoors.
Face masks are optional
More details below
From our add on Craigs List:
"Consultation and design services for growing your own food on your homestead.
I can come to your site, answer your questions, help you identify the best places to plant, and give advice on the best edible and useful plants to meet you and your site's specific needs.
Eat the freshest home grown food and increase your food security.
Permaculture design methods are used to create productive, efficient, sustainable, beautiful, and organic home gardens, orchards, food forests, and edible landscapes.
Permaculture draws upon the traditional agricultural techniques and plants from Hawaii, Polynesia, and similar climates from across the globe. Agroforestry, organic gardening, modern science, and ethics, are also incorporated into this system of design.
Put my 15 years experience growing food on a home scale to work for you. I have taught a class series many times on how to grow a complete diet in Hawaii.
I can create a very rough or very detailed design, and outline the step by step processes and options, that you can use, to make it a reality.
If you have undeveloped land I can help you with deciding how to clear it in responsible ways that will maintain its fertility. I can help find locations for buildings and roads, gardens etc.
If you just bought partially developed land I can help you to identify existing fruit trees, and give expert advice on their care, pruning, fertilizing, mulching, etc. I can also recommend additional trees and plants.
If you have an existing homestead, I can help find ways to make it more productive, easier to manage, and address specific problems or questions you may have.
I also sell locally adapted annual vegetable seeds, and long lived perennial vegetable starts.
Serving East Hawaii in person.* **
And all islands virtually.
*All in person consultations are outdoors, with social distancing observed, and masked as you prefer.
** Some locations may require additional mileage reimbursement."
"Consultation and design services for growing your own food on your homestead.
I can come to your site, answer your questions, help you identify the best places to plant, and give advice on the best edible and useful plants to meet you and your site's specific needs.
Eat the freshest home grown food and increase your food security.
Permaculture design methods are used to create productive, efficient, sustainable, beautiful, and organic home gardens, orchards, food forests, and edible landscapes.
Permaculture draws upon the traditional agricultural techniques and plants from Hawaii, Polynesia, and similar climates from across the globe. Agroforestry, organic gardening, modern science, and ethics, are also incorporated into this system of design.
Put my 15 years experience growing food on a home scale to work for you. I have taught a class series many times on how to grow a complete diet in Hawaii.
I can create a very rough or very detailed design, and outline the step by step processes and options, that you can use, to make it a reality.
If you have undeveloped land I can help you with deciding how to clear it in responsible ways that will maintain its fertility. I can help find locations for buildings and roads, gardens etc.
If you just bought partially developed land I can help you to identify existing fruit trees, and give expert advice on their care, pruning, fertilizing, mulching, etc. I can also recommend additional trees and plants.
If you have an existing homestead, I can help find ways to make it more productive, easier to manage, and address specific problems or questions you may have.
I also sell locally adapted annual vegetable seeds, and long lived perennial vegetable starts.
Serving East Hawaii in person.* **
And all islands virtually.
*All in person consultations are outdoors, with social distancing observed, and masked as you prefer.
** Some locations may require additional mileage reimbursement."
Frequently Asked Questions about consultation and design sessions
What will my permaculture consultation and design session include?
- During the first two hours of consultation we will review your goals for the property and explore your options in detail, discussing what plants, where, why and how.
- If you would a like written out rough draft key plant list, rough sketches of design possibilities, and/or rough outlining of phases of installation, then that is an additional hour.
How long will it take to complete my design?
- You can choose how ever many design and consultations sessions you would like, and when. Some of my clients just get one, and some keep having me back many times as they further develop new areas of their land.
- Some want a very detailed design right from the start that will guide their project long into the future and help assure an efficient path to its completion. Generally the more time is spent designing up front, the less and less costly mistakes are made later on.
- More detailed designs further analyzing zones, sectors, view and noise planes, , depending on level of detail, the size of the land, the terrain, components and complexity of the design, and various other factors can take from 10 to 30 hours or more.
Can I record my session?
- yes, I allow you to either audio/video record your session for your personal use only.
- we cover a great deal of information including many plant names that may be unfamiliar to you, specific techniques, application rates, etc, etc, and it may be a challenge for even experienced note takers to keep up.
- generally audio only is easier and sufficient
- reviewing your session later may help to better absorb and recall details of the session and maximize value of your session
- some people don't take notes at all, its completely up to the individual.
How much does it cost?
- $200 for a two hour session
- is generally verbal and usually mostly spent walking your site, analyzing it, answering your questions and discussing options.
- $300 Three Hour session
- first two hours same as above
- third hour we sit down and I write very rough drafts of: design ideas, and/or list of key plants, and/or next steps, as you prefer and time permits.
- Additional sessions are priced the same and can be spent as in the above sessions to your preference.
- You can get as detailed as you want depending on how many sessions.
- Moderately to highly detailed final designs for acreage or high complexity projects, can take from 10 to 30 hours of design time.
- Additional mileage reimbursement may be required depending on your location.