Modalities & Areas of Expertise
- Pleasing whole system design
- Yielding food, herbs, medicine, and other useful products
- Building soil and biodiversity
- Creating stimulating, educational, and safe play spaces for children, free of toxic chemicals
- Reducing your ecological footprint, while increasing self- and community-reliance
- Deepening your connection with the Earth
- Creating wildlife habitat in your backyard
- Passive solar and similar approaches can result in lower long-term housing costs
- Conserving and harvesting water
- Increasing property value, financially and otherwise
- Pre-Acquisition Assessment of Properties
- Effective Strategies to Restore Health to Degraded Sites
- Facilitation of Master Planning Processes
- Development of Educational Programs for Project Stakeholders
- Identification of Site-Appropriate Micro-Enterprises
- Design of Edible and other Functional Landscapes
- Whole farm / property design, planning and mapping
- Forest Garden Design, planning, design and installation
- Multifunctional Hedgerows
- Keyline water management Strategies: Ponds, swales, contour canals and simple eco-aquaculture
- Rotational Grazing Systems
- Seed Production and adaptation for climate resilience
- Ecological woodland management including prescribed burning
Don can assist with the following:
* Site Assessment & evaluation
* Mapping and Design
* Drone footage, images and map overlays
* Species lists for existing vegetation
* Homesite siting and evaluation
* Earthworks for roads, drainage, ponds, catchment, and swales
* Food forest design, planting design and plant procurement
* Comprehensive phased design and step by step implementation planning
* Site walk, and surveying for earth works
Training and Certification
Permaculture design
organic farming
regenerative farming
water catchment
biodynamics
ecological forestry
Consultant Types
Plant crops / garden / greenhouse
Per hour fee USD
$180
Sliding Fees
yes
City and state/province
OR
Region
U.S. Oregon
Other social media account
@dontipping