Link to 1000+ available Edible plants LANdpLAN database
Link to 13 month calendar (a little tangent to help us naturalize)
Link to 13 month calendar (a little tangent to help us naturalize)
Below are some of the products and services that I've created. I charge $40 per hour for labour and do all of the below and more including tree liming and care, stone and aggregate pathways, small ponds, fencing and irrigation.
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Food Forest Design
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Rodent proof compost bin and irrigated, vertical garden panels all in one.
-Reduce back bending
-Holds up to 2 yards
-Make compost
-Heat from composting helps plants grow better
-Efficient space use
-made from reclaimed and untreated wood
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Single vertical garden panels
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Slow composting bin
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Year 'round pruning for homes and farms.
Food Forest design for single family residence. This image shows many layers all at once and can be confusing to understand. Viewing individual layers makes it all clear and easy to understand. The client received 9 maps to depict all the layers of this design. You can download it all right here. Some of the deer resistant flowering plants include: Oxeye daisy, Viola, Lavender, Yucca, Calendula, Day Lillie's, Cammas, Yarrow and Sage. Some deer resistant evergreens include: Rosemary, Chilean guava, Bay laurel and Seabuckthorn. |
Rodent proof compost bin and irrigated, vertical garden panels all in one.
1/4" Micro Drip irrigation |
-Holds up to 2 yards
-Make compost
-Heat from composting helps plants grow better
-Efficient space use
-made from reclaimed and untreated wood
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Single vertical garden panels
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2 bin compost, rodent proof.
2 bin compost, rodent proof.
These
wooden compost bins are made 100% from reused shipping pallets. Most
pallets are made from expensive tropical hardwoods like mahogany and
will last a long time. The greenery growing at the base of this bin is Comphrey. It is a "bio-accumulator" meaning that it will send it's
roots down to 7 meters and grow big green leaves that can be cut and
composted to help accelerate the composting process and add minerals
from way down under the soil. The tiny pink, purple and white flowers
of the Comfrey make a sweet addition to salads.
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Slow composting bin
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Year 'round pruning for homes and farms.
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Ebony place Before
Ebony Place after
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Design for residential property
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1663 Fairfield before
1663 Fairfield (Sidewalk View) before
1663 Fairfield (Sidewalk View) after
___________________________________________________________ Before Irrigated, evergreen, deer resistant privacy screen
Ebony place Before
Ebony Place after
No weeds! Every new addition is edible. The client has a document that lists all the plants and how to eat them. |
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Design for residential property
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1663 Fairfield before
Stone and driftwood borders for several raised beds were created. A large turn around area for vehicles using flowing curves to make it easy to mow all remaining grass areas. |
___________________________________________________________ Before Irrigated, evergreen, deer resistant privacy screen
Before the edible hedge were two layers of asphalt. The criteria for this project were to create an evergreen, deer resistant privacy screen between the trailer on the right and the house farther to the left and out of view.
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After ...
We used mature Arbutus Unedo (Strawberry tree) which will bear strawberry sized fruit in December to screen the top of the view. To screen the bottom we used Gaultheria Shallon (Salal) which will make little berries in the late summer, Mahonia (Oregon Grape) which makes berries in the early mid summer and Bay Laurel who's leaves are great for spicing soups and sauces. A lavender adds a little colour and is great in making sweets. For a ground cover we sprinkled a mix of greens and beans which will germinate in a week or so.
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Raised beds and trellis
We built these raised beds for the residents of Caulfield low-income housing in Duncan. They are very sturdy and act as a meeting place for the residents. It was great to see on my last visit that the residents are taking care to raise a diversity of edible plants.
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Irrigated octagonal raised beds
Scale map of plantings I did at O.U.R. eco village
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These raised beds at the Horticultural Center of the Pacific make it easy to show people a close up view of annual veggies that would normally be below knee height.
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