We are now scheduling Permaculture clients for 2025 in NC and Southwest VA! Contact Us to see if we’re a good fit to work together.
Permaculture Design is an unfolding process where we learn from the earth how to create abundant, beautiful, and resilient systems that give us food, shelter, medicine, energy, community, and healthy ecosystems. As we help the land heal itself and support the animals and plants around us, we become healthier and more alive.
Permaculture leaves the soil, air, water, and biological communities better off than they were. In a consciously designed permaculture system, humans are not a problem, but one of the keystone species of local regeneration.
Permaculture teaches us how to make change our ally. We stop struggling with what is and we listen for what wants to be. We then, day by day, help it happen.
With patience and practice, we re-enter deep relationship with our wild and human communities. Rather than surviving by trying to control, we learn to work with the life force that is already there.
We would be grateful to play a part in helping you live a life closer to the earth.
The forest shades and protects the home, the outdoor kitchen channels a breeze that passively cools the house, the roof catches rainwater that is used to water the plants. The house is heated with firewood from the same trees that can be cut again and again.
Little ponds catch the extra rainwater and fill up with singing frogs, and every morning a cardinal wakes us up by tapping on our south-facing window.
Our Permaculture Design Work
Between Matt and Liane, we have now seen nearly 100 clients. We are grateful to have the chance to bring our experience to serve you and the land that you love.
We are currently looking to work with a small number of clients for 2025 in North Carolina or Southwest Virginia.
We are especially seeking to work with people who may be interested in committing to work together for a year including 1 visit per season, as this leads to the best results.
Working with you through the seasons gives us a much better ability to help make sure your goals are reached. It will also let us provide a lot more extra help in the form of things like custom plant lists, a guide for how to work with your land, concept sketches, or whatever helps you and the land to thrive.
This can be life-changing work, so the more you make a place for it in your life, the deeper it will root!
What to Expect When We Work Together
- We start with a free 30 minute call to get to know each other and see if we’re a good fit to work together.
- From there, we have a 3-hour visit and learn as much as we can about the land and the people who tend it. Then, together, we find the next best steps to take. We look for steps that support both the land’s long-term regeneration and give you a way to begin the transformation now.
- After each visit, we offer custom follow-up materials based on your needs. These can be summaries, plant lists, resource lists, concept sketches, or whatever you need to thrive.
- In between visits, we are there to support enacting those steps with our skills & guidance via email or scheduled calls.
- We keep working with you through the seasons via 1 or more seasonal visits to help you and the land continue to evolve together and connect you to support resources, workshops, and community.
- You will have a totally renewed and enlivened relationship with tending the land you live with and ten thousand beautiful things we can’t possibly anticipate will happen as a result of you doing what you love to do most.
Ways to Work With Us
One Year of Permaculture Design Support
This is the strongest way to work together and yields the best results. It includes 4 seasonal 3-hour visits.
The first two visits are within 60 days to make sure things begin moving in a good direction. The next two are farther apart, one per season, to help the land evolve through the year.
After each visit, we offer custom written follow-up materials based on your needs. People who commit to working with us for a year also receive on-going support in between visits through email or scheduled calls.
We are confident that with a full year of our guidance, you will be walking in harmony with the land on a path to seeing your Permaculture goals realized. Please contact us to ask us about pricing.
One-Time Consultation and Hourly Help
In addition to Permaculture design work, we offer consultation work specifically to support finding and buying land for Permaculture as well as in-depth mentoring to learn to live off-grid. In some special cases, we may also offer a one-time visit for Permaculture consultation. To talk about possible arrangements and pricing for this, contact us.
More on Working Together
Additional help is available by arrangement. We don’t usually do any installation – we don’t want to take the fun away from you! – but one or more of the visits can involve working together to help you learn how to do something like plant trees, dig earthworks, set up solar, and so on.
Our ultimate goal of this work is to leave you feeling confident and on the right path to work with the land yourself. Like a lot of Permaculture designers, we have moved away from drawing up a big master plan and delivering it to you to have to follow (you can read more about why here). What we will do is make sure that after every session, you have everything you need to take the next best steps to keep moving towards your goals.
Our visits are also to help you learn to see the patterns of water, soil, animals, and so on on your own land. No one can know more about your land than you and the other people who live there! …but we can be of tremendous help as as guides along the way. Some clients have enjoyed us teaching them about the wild plants or mushrooms they can forage on their land and even enjoyed a salad we prepared from the wild!
Ready to Work Together?
…and, check out our upcoming Permaculture workshops.
