Permaculture Consultancy

Our Urban & Rural Micro-Farm, Homestead & Garden Services include:
- Assessment of your property, your vision & goals.
- Assessment of your potential projects & current systems.

- Advice based on decades of experience as per 'Bretts Credentials' below.

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We can provide advice & guidance on Urban & Rural properties:

- water management > retention, harvesting, storage & diversion
- soil management > building fertility, composting, bio-fert, teas, maintenance etc
- shelterbelts creation > micro-climate, shading, vertical fodder, edibles etc
- element placement > gardens, orchards, food forests, built structures, water tanks, animal systems, compost systems, shelterbelts etc
- general construction > techniques, materials, resourcing, etc.

- earthworks > land-forming / earthworks / swales & terraces
- low maintenance > farming & gardening techniques / strategies

- integrated orchards > espalier systems, kitchen orchards, maintenance etc

- income > from homesteading and small acre farming
- small animal management > vertical fodder systems, maintenance, husbandry etc.
- plant guilds & food forests > forest layering systems + species, hardiness, benefit etc
- food forest systems > set-out, planning, plant selection, succession, maintenance etc

- aquaculture systems > set-out, planning, edible aquatic plant species etc
- project management > planning, trade & resource coordination

- veg & herb gardening > grow systems, strategies & technique, plant types, etc

- wildlife management > planning, protective systems, natural solutions, etc

 

Consult Options Explained:

1/ Site-Walk Guidance Consult (hourly rate)

Allows for 3hrs (minimum) onsite providing permaculture advice in real-time, noting where elements can be located on site according to your Vision, Site Assessment, Scale of Permanence & Permaculture Design Principles.

We can 'ground truth' these elements by marking them out on the ground if required, sketching onsite system ideas, infrastructure ideas, element locations & project requirements to bring your vision to life.

Aerial Drone Photography included to assist with planning.

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2/ Full Concept Design & Report Consult (set fee)

Allows for 3hrs (minimum) onsite providing permaculture advice in real-time, noting where elements can be located on site according to your personal vision & site assessment, discussions & permaculture principles.

 

The Concept Overlay is a digital design overlaid on an aerial photo (drone photography), it depicts (via your vision / goals) where elements can be located on site according to the site assessment described in the report.

 

So the Concept Design provides a visual understanding of how your property could look in the future based on the permaculture design process & whole systems thinking.

The supporting Consultation Report & Storyboard is an explanation / reasoning of each project identified within the overall concept (shelterbelts, kitchen garden, orchard, nursery, compost bays, loading bays, etc) to assist with future project management of each project.

The report provides water harvesting potential, site risks / threats, solstice sun projections (summer / winter), protection, micro-climate requirements and much more.

 

This consultation is more in-depth, to help you plan your future homestead / farm / garden  as a whole system and allow you to prioritise & start on the most important projects!

 

Please note it does NOT provide full project detail for every project as this is 'Project Management' and requires individual projects to have individual focus of resources &     scope of work.

 

Supporting this consult is a variety of Techniques & Methods + Planting info etc, much of which we have put together (sheet mulching 101, walk-in exclusion tunnel plans, grey water systems, compost systems, plant lists, native edibles, fruit & nut, perennial vegetables etc)

 

Aerial Drone Photography included to assist with designing.