Modalities & Areas of Expertise

I have over 30 years experience with amny aspects of permacultture landscape assesment and design and would be delighted to help your project groww from ideas to reality. 

I can assist with the following:

  • Creating 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  

I recommend starting with a short zoom call to see what potential exists in workking together. Here is a link to coordinate that: https://www.siskiyouseeds.com/products/permaculture-consultation-with-don-tipping

Training and Certification

Permaculture design

organic farming

regenerative farming

water catchment

biodynamics

ecological forestry

Consultant Types

Property management,Plant crops / garden / greenhouse,Sanitation or water,Animal husbandry

Per hour fee USD

$180

Sliding Fees

yes

City and state/province

OR

Region

U.S. Oregon

Other social media account

@dontipping