Header photo above: OSG designs a kitchen garden with compost/manure channels for a client in Oregon
Permaculture Design Consultation Includes:
Assessment of your land, property and business goals via a phone/zoom/on-site visioning meeting, and a goals questionnaire
* Design proposal with step-by-step guide to meeting your vision within your resource constraints
* Refinement of design proposal
* Finalized design plan for you to implement your vision
Permaculture Design Consultation Includes:
Assessment of your land, property and business goals via a phone/zoom/on-site visioning meeting, and a goals questionnaire
* Design proposal with step-by-step guide to meeting your vision within your resource constraints
* Refinement of design proposal
* Finalized design plan for you to implement your vision
Photos Below: OSG Designs & installs productive and water-holding terraces on dry, exposed rocky outcropped soil for a client on San Juan Island, WA
Photo Above: August 2020
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Photo Above Center: September 2021
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Photo Above Right: May 2022
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Permaculture and Landscape Design, Consultation & Installation Services
All profits go to support On Sacred Ground Land Trust.
Why is design important?
Humans waste energy and time to harvest low yields often extracting important resources without replenishment. If every homeowner and business owner designed their land and business utilizing small, implementable permaculture design techniques, we would all be working 10 hours/week, and harvesting 1000% more yield from the land to meet our needs. And we wouldn't be in the climate crisis we find ourselves in now. Design and vision, model after earth systems, retrofit.
You can live anywhere in the world for a design consult ~ we will utilize the phone and internet to accomplish your vision.
Certified permaculture designers listen to your goals, help you vision, and work with the land to create functional, restorative, and edible landscapes – current design offerings include:
- Rooftop to landscape water distribution, storage & water table replenishment
- Re-greening or re-habilitating decimated & depleted landscapes
- Food forests, medicinal, perennial & kitchen gardens (hugelkulture can be included)
- Interactive eco-scapes & edible/habitat properties with multi-user trails
- Victory gardens
Fees ~ $45-70/hr (project dependent)
Cost of materials is additional, licensed & bonded contractor for construction projects
All profits go to support On Sacred Ground Land Trust.
Why is design important?
Humans waste energy and time to harvest low yields often extracting important resources without replenishment. If every homeowner and business owner designed their land and business utilizing small, implementable permaculture design techniques, we would all be working 10 hours/week, and harvesting 1000% more yield from the land to meet our needs. And we wouldn't be in the climate crisis we find ourselves in now. Design and vision, model after earth systems, retrofit.
You can live anywhere in the world for a design consult ~ we will utilize the phone and internet to accomplish your vision.
Certified permaculture designers listen to your goals, help you vision, and work with the land to create functional, restorative, and edible landscapes – current design offerings include:
- Rooftop to landscape water distribution, storage & water table replenishment
- Re-greening or re-habilitating decimated & depleted landscapes
- Food forests, medicinal, perennial & kitchen gardens (hugelkulture can be included)
- Interactive eco-scapes & edible/habitat properties with multi-user trails
- Victory gardens
Fees ~ $45-70/hr (project dependent)
Cost of materials is additional, licensed & bonded contractor for construction projects
Summer 2022 - view from outside a fenced vegetable garden with espaliered fruit trees, overtaken by weeds & grass
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Left: Summer 2025 - view from within the same garden looking uphill, access paths installed, beds enhanced and installed
Above: Spring 2026 - trellis installed as privacy screen above growing beds |
Permaculture Education:
On Sacred Ground hosts workshops on permaculture and practices topics of interest. Please contact us if you would like us to teach in your class or lead a project workshop.
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Composting Polystyrene with Mealworms:
Based on Stanford University researcher's discovery in 2015, we have created our own polystyrene (broadly known as Styrofoam™ ) composting system. We shared our composting system with 7th grade biology students at Spring Street International School, and they successfully produced 2 pounds of composted polystyrene soil during the 2021-2022 school year. Photo right: a mealworm eats a hole into polystyrene |
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Making Clay Seed Balls: Making clay seed balls to protect seeds from insects and birds during planting (based on Masanobu Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming research and techniques) Photo left: Making clay seed balls with a 6th grade class |