Services

For farmers, gardeners, home-owners, urban dwellers, educators, corporations, administrators, communities, businesses, students, ranchers, landowners, architects, regional planners and builder-developers.

Education

American Institute of Architecture (AIA) & American Society of Landscap Architecture (ASLA) Continuing Education Courses and Training

Green Architecture and Permaculture

(1-3 hours), seminars (half/full day), or 2-3 day workshops in any of these topic areas:

Permaculture basics
medicinal herbs
wild plants/foraging
hunter-gatherer skills
suburban-urban homesteading
seed saving
natural building systems and home retrofit
renewable energy systems and design how to recycle/reuse/forage
food preservation
water collection systems, purification and storage, cycling and distribution of fresh water
air and water purification
aquaculture
gardening, farming and animal husbandry
renewable energy (solar, wind, water, fire) systems
natural heating, cooling and climate regulation
bio-fuels
practical homesteading skills
biological waste management systems and waste detoxification

the business of organics
recreation
noise abatement
peaceful sanctuary
biological diversity
nutrient storage and cycling
land and nature stewardship
bio-intensive gardening
organic agriculture
biodynamic agriculture
natural farming
keyline water harvesting
holistic rangeland management
natural sequence farming
agroforestry
nature-based forestry
gleaning and dumpster diving
invisible structures
land tenure and community governance
land restoration
utility plant landscapes and food forests
community gardens

Permergy – Corporate Education in Sustainability and Permaculture

Consulting – Strategic and master planning for sustainable development; design for rural, suburban and urban locations; private homes and businesses; village design, rural, suburban and urban planning, corporate campuses, housing developments.

Site Assessment
Site Design
Master Planning
Design Charettes
Farm and Garden Consulting
- Transitioning from Chemical to Organic Agriculture
- Farm Planning and Implementation
- Broadacre Permaculture Farm Design
- Small Farm Business Planning
- Backyard Garden Education, Planning and Implementation
- Food Forest Development and Planning

Exploring regional natural areas, farms, homes and businesses that exemplify the methodologies, ethics and principles of Permaculture and a whole systems approach to sustainability. By observing minerals, plants, animals and human engineered projects, theory and study are grounded in observation, and participation in actual practice.
Passive solar design, natural construction materials, water harvesting & waste reuse, earth sheltered construction, natural disaster resistant construction, owner building, pattern language.