Permaculture Landscape Solutions

  • Landscape Care

    We design, plant, seed, mulch, install irrigation (if necessary) and steward landscapes consisting of edible, functional, native, and climate-adapted plants. Our goal is to work with each client’s unique location, lifestyle, means, and goals, to create landscapes that will be abundant with the biology they wish to experience.

  • Water Retention Earthworks

    Water is the foundation of every landscape. To make best use of all water that lands on a site, we build terraces, swales, check dams, infiltration basins, rain gardens, hugelkultur beds, sunken beds, rolling dips, and ponds. These passively collect and direct both water and organic matter to provide more consistent soil hydration and fertility. This aids in drought and wildfire resilience, increases plant vitality, and works alongside nature’s forces to create more abundance.

  • Consulting

    If you’re looking for personalized stewardship assistance, we offer on-site and remote consulting to help with observing, analyzing, and caring for your landscape. Our goal is to help you work with the natural elements in your site to have the greatest impact with the least amount of effort. We can work with you to understand the ecology of your site and formulate approachable plans for actualizing your landscape vision.

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Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort Food Forest Leavenworth, WA - 2024

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Yesterday’s project: building a beaver dam analog in the Chumstick Creek. We laid down layers of logs, then grasses, then mud, then leafy branches, then mud, then leafy branches, then mud. When we came to the creek yesterday to start, there wa
Today’s project: pulling weeds. Generally I don’t like weeding, but, it’s something people want to pay for, and I can make use of the removed plants. Here’s my hypercondensed explanation of weeds: weeds are plants that you d
This week’s project: a lil living privacy hedge for a client’s front yard to create a buffer between them and their neighbors. Nothing too fancy here, just 19 native plants from Derby Canyon Natives, some woodchip mulch, some drip irrigat
Y’all this is what’s possible with lazy gardening! The amount of abundance that comes from perennial plants (woody plants that return every year to produce more and more food) is unreal. People been living off perennial foods (predominant
Today’s Harvest: Garlic. The simplest and easiest crop to grow, all ya gotta do is put individual cloves in the ground about 1-2” deep in the late fall, and wait to dig them up in the late spring/early summer. No watering necessary in the
This summer’s project: combatting the prevailing winds and vehicle noise entering from the east by making a “crater garden” and hugelkultur mound. Winds severely dry out the landscape and make it hard for plants to grow. Noise from
This week’s project: Small steps toward reducing water needs and creating wildlife habitat. Planted 13 new species of native plants, repaired leaking irrigation with drip emitters, reduced watering duration and frequency for their existing lawn
This week’s project: Hugelkultur mounds! After collecting large amounts of woody material from around the site and off-site, I rented an excavator for a day and lasagna layered woody materials, then dirt, then wood, then dirt. Starting about 2
This week’s project: Terraces built into the hillside, seeded with cover crop, mulched with a neighbor’s goat poop/hay bedding, and planted with fruit and nut trees/shrubs. One terrace is an experiment in just cover crop seed alone, the o
This week’s project: A roundwood grape trellis/hops trellis/garden entrance. Locally harvested logs from a forest thinning project, debarked, charred for rot-resistance, and set in the ground. Hemp twine hangs between the logs, allowing the exi