Permaculture Design
for Individuals, Residences, Communities, Businesses, Farms or Homesteads
Consultation Services
1-on-1 guidance from a trained permaculture designer
Consulting with Fractal Permaculture gives you access to a well-rounded and diverse knowledge base that will help you bring more abundance, resilience and efficiency into your life. A permaculture consultation can benefit any type of project or system.
Maybe you are looking for a property consultation to help evaluate your land’s restrictions, advantages, best practices, plant lists, or climate. Or you are in need of a business sustainability evaluation to increase efficiency and reduce waste.
Perhaps you are looking for an assessment on your home to learn about reducing your ecological footprint while saving money. Or some advice for your community to increase interconnection and resilience based on social permaculture principles.
A consultation will help you gain clarity about:
- What you need to know before investing time and money in a project or property
- Common pitfalls and mistakes to avoid
- Setting realistic project goals and timeline
- Basic information about your region and climate
- Permaculture practices that are appropriate for your project
- Educational resources to support you on your permaculture journey
A consultation can save you loads of time and money in the long run, and help you gain direction and confidence as you step forward on the path towards regeneration.
“Permaculture is about observing your life and your surroundings, and changing them little by little to harmonize with the rhythms and flows of nature. Rather than consuming and destroying until social/economic/environmental collapse, permaculture leads us to the path of least resistance and most resilience. Permaculture systems are able to self-regulate, adapt, grow, heal, and provide for our needs and the needs of future generations.”
Phone/Zoom Consultation
We can offer consultation services for any site in the U.S. over the phone or video chat, and offer heaps of data about topography, climate, sun exposure, wind patterns common permaculture practices for your region. We will interpret and package information about your site from multiple databases. An initial phone consultation can be also used to ask questions about your project or about permaculture in general. This option can also be used for follow-up consultations and design questions.
The phone consultation will include:
- an intake questionnaire that you fill out online, outlining our goals, scope and vision for the project
- a post consultation follow-up with general information about your site and basic written recommendations:
- climate, rainfall, sun, etc.
- the ecosystem and bioregion you inhabit
- best permaculture practices for your region
- links to further information and resources that will aid you
- books
- scientific articles
- local maps (i.e topographical maps, hydrological maps, etc.)
- free permaculture educational resources
1 acre base price – $99 per hour
Each additional acre costs $2
On-Site Consultation
Colin Eldridge or another trusted team member will meet you in person to walk your site and offer general recommendations for permaculture practices that would best fit your vision.
This option starts with an intake questionnaire and ends with a post-consultation followup that may include:
- everything that is included in a phone consultation
- a summary of observations from the site visit
- written recommendations
- plant lists
- maps
- resources
- rough design sketches*
1 acre base price – $149 per hour †
Each additional acre costs $3
plus $1/mile travel to and from
* upon request. may include additional fees.
†Minimum 2 hours. larger sites may require longer visits.
Contact us for a free intake and quote.
We want to make sure that our services are a good fit for your project and answer any questions you may have.
413-203-9688
Regenerative Landscape Design Services
Step-by-step frameworks for implementing your dream permaculture passion project
Design locally to create real solutions to global issues like climate change, pollution, food scarcity, inequality, and habitat restoration. Get a beautiful foundation for your perfect garden, living space, or ecological homestead. Permaculture designs are thorough, well-researched, and practical models. Push beyond sustainability with a dynamic design that truly adapts to and heals the land. A permaculture design will lay the groundwork for you to:
- Create an abundant and edible landscape
- Catch and store rainwater while preventing erosion and flooding
- Create a drought-proof oasis
- Restore natural habitat while integrating human land use
- Make the most use of your space, stacking functions
- Remediate damaged and/or polluted land
- Build healthy soil
- Sequester carbon, lower carbon footprint
- Grow food rather than lawns
- Low-maintenance food production
- Reduce energy use, invest in renewables
- Create a space that truly is unique, dynamic, interconnected and alive
- Foster healthy relationships with people and the planet
- Learn and grow as a person
TESTIMONIAL
“While visiting my home in the North Carolina Piedmont, Colin performed a thorough assessment of my property, mapping the angle and area of sunlight in the vicinity, testing our soil, and ultimately providing detailed recommendations of native plant species to integrate into our homestead. He even offered resources for connecting with local permaculturists and indigenous peoples. I highly recommend their services to future clients in this line of work!”
Permaculture Framework Design
This is the best option for people looking for a general design overview that is more in-depth than an initial consultation. This option does not provide a thorough or to-scale blueprint for installation. People may also choose this option for a conceptual, community or business oriented design.
A typical framework design will include:
- USDA Climate data
- Sun exposure data
- Wind data
- Topographical data
- Hydrology data
- Soil data
- Ecosystem data
- Site maps
- General plant list to fit your site
- Permaculture design written recommendations
- General design placement ideas
- Community resources
- Additional sources for research
- Outline of first steps
- Zone and sector analysis*
- Basic design illustrations*
Must be preceded by phone consultation and/or walkabout.
1 acre base price – $999 †
Each additional acre costs $100
Complete Permaculture Design
Includes an in-depth assessment as described above, as well as comprehensive visual design blueprints with detailed placement of all desired design elements. The complete design will also include a portfolio with all resources, research, and information related to the site.
Examples of what is typically included in a complete design:
- Everything that is included in a framework design (see above)
- Detailed visual designs which include intelligent and artful placement of design elements, including but not limited to:
- vertical farming
- food forests
- paths
- solar panels
- greenhouses
- animal pastures
- rainwater catchment
- foraged wildland
- ponds
- water features
- earthworks i.e swales, berms and gabions
- compost
- sheet mulch
- Detailed written guidelines on how to implement each of the above design elements, with links to further readings and resources
- A full property design can include a step-by-step outline for implementation in accordance with the seasons, your site conditions, and your timeline, as well as referall to other businesses and resources that can help you throughout the process.*
Must be preceded by an in-person consultation.
1 acre base price – $1999 †
each additional acre costs $500
*upon request. may include additional fees. Fractal Permaculture does not currently offer on-site project implementation or management.*
†Design pricing may vary depending on the scope and scale of the project. Contact us for an initial quote to get more detailed information.
Contact us for a free intake and quote.
Not sure what you need? Just ask!
If you are feeling unclear, or your needs do not fit within our services listed above, you can simply hire us to help you brainstorm. Over the phone or online, our regular consultation rate is $99 per hour.
413-203-9688