Permaculture Design for Land That Works With You

I offer site-specific permaculture design and consultation for homes, homesteads, and small-acreage properties, with a practical focus on water, soil, planting, infrastructure, and long-term stewardship.

Permaculture Design

Design the Property as a Whole System

Permaculture looks beyond individual features like a garden, orchard, or irrigation system. It considers how people, water, soil, plants, animals, structures, access, climate, and daily life interact across the property.

The goal is to develop a design that makes sense for your land, your priorities, and the time and resources you realistically have available.

Services

Permaculture Design Services - $2,100

A comprehensive, site-specific permaculture design for your land, home, or homestead, delivered as a complete PDF report.

Drawing on training under Geoff Lawton and hands-on experience as a self-taught homesteader, this package includes:

  • A full site assessment
  • Zone and sector analysis
  • Detailed design plan for water systems
  • Soil building strategies
  • Planting systems and guilds
  • Food-production opportunities
  • Access and infrastructure
  • Long-term land stewardship, tailored to your specific climate, terrain, and goals

The design also lays out a realistic implementation sequence, phased to match your available time and budget, so you know exactly what to prioritize first and what can wait, rather than facing an all-or-nothing plan.

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Consultation

Permaculture Consultation Services - $150/hour

A flexible, one-on-one consultation for your land, home, or project. Whether you're just starting to plan, troubleshooting an existing design, or want a second set of eyes before moving forward, this session meets you where you are.

Drawing on training under Geoff Lawton, hands-on homesteading experience, and a background in psychology, I bring a grounded, people-aware lens to design work.

That often means surfacing the underlying strengths, blind spots, and relational dynamics- yours, your household's, your land partners'- that shape whether a design actually gets built and maintained, not just whether it's technically sound.

How It Works

From Property Questions to a Practical Plan

1. Start With the Property

We begin with your goals, current conditions, existing systems, challenges, and what you hope the property can become.

2. Look at the Relationships

Rather than treating water, soil, planting, animals, access, and infrastructure as separate problems, I look at how they influence one another.

3. Develop the Design

For comprehensive projects, I translate those observations into a site-specific design with recommendations for the major systems across the property.

4. Prioritize Implementation

The final plan identifies what deserves attention first and how later stages can develop over time as your budget, capacity, and property evolve.

Consultation Options

Ways to Work Together on Your Property

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Virtual Consultation

Meet remotely for focused guidance, troubleshooting, design review, or ongoing planning tailored to your property and current goals.

In-person site work

In-Person Site Work

Meet on-site for direct observation, practical recommendations, and property-specific guidance. Available for select projects in Colorado and Montana.

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Remote Design

Develop a comprehensive property design remotely using maps, photos, site information, climate data, and conversations about your goals.

Permaculture Design in Practice

Permaculture Portfolio

Permaculture Design in Practice

Every property presents a different combination of people, climate, terrain, resources, limitations, and opportunities. Explore examples of the systems and hands-on work that inform my approach to regenerative design.

People Care

Design shaped around the people who live with and maintain the land.

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Soil & Site Regeneration

Improving soil, drainage, and site conditions to create a stronger foundation.

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Water & Earthworks

Working with the movement of water to support a more resilient landscape.

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Habitat, Pollinators & Pest Management

Creating healthier relationships between plants, animals, pollinators, and pests.

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Practical Infrastructure

Integrating fencing, plumbing, irrigation, and construction into the larger system.

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Personalized Site Design

Bringing the property’s needs, opportunities, and systems together in one cohesive plan.

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More of Permaculture

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Permaculture abundant vegetable harvest

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Faces of Humanity

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Sands of Time

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Colorful corn cobs with multicolored kernels arranged on a wooden table with dried husks
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Chopped red peppers, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and herbs in a bowl, mixed with oil and spices
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Permaculture Portfolio

Permaculture Design in Practice

Every property presents a different combination of people, climate, terrain, resources, limitations, and opportunities. Explore examples of the systems and hands-on work that inform my approach to regenerative design.

People Care

Design shaped around the people who live with and maintain the land.

People Care

Soil & Site Regeneration

Improving soil, drainage, and site conditions to create a stronger foundation.

Demolition, Drainage and Soil Development

Water & Earthworks

Working with the movement of water to support a more resilient landscape.

Earthworks

Habitat, Pollinators & Pest Management

Creating healthier relationships between plants, animals, pollinators, and pests.

Predator & Pest and Mason Bee Hotels

Practical Infrastructure

Integrating fencing, plumbing, irrigation, and construction into the larger system.

Basic Construction

Personalized Site Design

Bringing the property's needs, opportunities, and systems together in one cohesive plan.

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Experience

Designed From Practice, Not Just Theory

My approach to permaculture comes from both formal training and years of learning directly from the land.

I trained in permaculture under Geoff Lawton and have spent more than a decade working hands-on with regenerative systems, including the development and management of a six-acre homestead in Montana.

That experience has included:

  • Food production
  • Soil building
  • Composting
  • Orchards and perennial systems
  • Water management
  • Animals and livestock
  • Irrigation
  • Property infrastructure
  • Seasonal maintenance
  • Long-term land stewardship

I have learned that a design can make perfect sense on paper and still fail if it does not account for the realities of maintaining it. That is why I design with both the land and the people responsible for it in mind.

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Sustainability & Regenerative Living

Looking Beyond the Property Plan

Permaculture is part of a broader conversation about how people participate in the ecological systems around them.

For those interested in the psychology, philosophy, and environmental questions behind this work, Dr. Jesse's Guide to Sustainability, Climate Change & Regenerative Living explores climate anxiety, ecopsychology, resilience, sustainability, and regenerative approaches to everyday life.