What Don offers
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 & certification
Permaculture design
organic farming
regenerative farming
water catchment
biodynamics
ecological forestry