Services

We offer a range of services centred on helping humans live more in tandem with landscapes and become more confident with growing food, flowers and to learn from plants and landscapes.

We will always consider barter trade for our services and offer affordable scaled options to enable people of different financial capacity to access our support and services in invoking a life more like the one they dream of, close to the land.

Plant growing services (for Southern Tasmania) - pick up required - cost $7+ 

Do you need some plants grown out for a garden? We grow out plants for designs or to meet your needs and the constraints of your context. We can also advise you on good choices for your garden aspirations.

We can grow out small plants, like tubestock and potted plants to order for vegetable gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens, medicinal gardens and are open to other discussions. Our aim is to keep these plants affordable, locally acclimatised and with our experience of what grows well and easily in the region

Costs: 

Hiko tray of 40 annual veg seedlings  

$45 if you return the tray $60 if you keep the tray

Hiko tray of cottage or medicinal garden plants, mixture of perennials and annuals, many rare varietals available

$95 if you return the tray $110 if you keep the tray

Individual larger grown out plants (in pots)

$7-$15 depending on size of pot. size of order and rarity plants.

Contact us with your request/needs. We can get hold of many things for you and are happy to problem solve for you. 

Some hiko trays planted with seeds

Garden/farm consultation and guidance

We have nearly 10 years of experience working with landscapes, plants and people to help people collaborate with their land and plant kin. We have a solid foundation of what it takes to implement designs and the common errors people make.

Our process is a much more affordable one than most permaculture designs, it is designed to empower the client to become the observer and student of their land. We will come up with a design for the land together with you, mapping it to a reasonable time frame and working to reasonable (including very tiny) budgets. We can also grow out plants for your design and help develop your knowledge of how to produce more plants yourself using a variety of propagation methods, saving you a lot of money.

Consultation/guided land stewardship costs: $50 p/h (minimum 2 hours per session)

Process - the process can be as drawn out as you want, some people find one session is plenty to get going and feel equipped to move from there by themselves, some have us back on a regular basis, every 6 months or so to discuss their progress and discoveries and reflect on future project ideas. Regardless of how you hope to move forward with us, every client must start with a goal setting session.

Goal setting, land reading and initial design options discussion (2-3 hours)

Future sessions might look like....

From this point on how sessions look may vary. We are experienced permaculture educators and designers, but also work intuitively with landscapes and plant kin, we are happy to adjust our skill set to your needs and the land's needs. 

Some sessions could be teaching sessions, where we show you one on one how to do something so you can get a feel for it and do it yourself afterwards, some sessions may be co-design sessions where we start mapping plans based on your observations of the land, some sessions may include walking the land while talking about what vegetation is telling us about the land systems and coming up with solutions to issues that may be arising. 

Any of these sessions are charged at the $50 ph rate, though we are open to barter trade options and payment instalment agreements to ensure financial accessibility. 

Property purchase consultation cost: $50+

If you are looking to live a more self sufficient/pernaculture lifestyle in Southern Tasmania we can help you make good decisions when purchasing. Many people make simple but very significant errors when looking to live "the good life" and it can turn the whole situation into very hard work with little reward.

We are able to guide you through decision making processes and help to focus you on the areas that really matter when choosing a property to grow your own food and provide for many of your needs.

Cost:

Initial consultation and goal setting with example properties to demonstrate key points $150 (required)

General consultation $50 ph

A property inspection, simple report, photographs and 1 hour meeting to discuss $150 

Please be aware that there may be additional travel costs that will need to be covered by the client for site visits.

Holistic orchard management, pruning, education and design

We have worked with orchards and fruit trees in the Cygnet area for over 5 years and have an excellent reputation for pruning and orchard consultancy. Though we are quite good at diagnosing issues with trees, we often find that the issues and the solutions to them require a more holistic perspective. We work with plants and their ecosystems in a holistic way and our recommendations and work tend towards long term solutions rather than panic induced "quick fixes" that usually end up worsening the overall health of orchard ecosystems.

We believe that orchards should never only exist of trees and grass. This heightens the risk of disease and pest invasion due to a lack of diversity.

Domestic pruning and pruning education $40 ph per pruner (minimum charge is for 2 hours, travel fees may apply)

We are available for pruning bookings from early April until bud burst (when flower buds form - usually mid August). 

We prioritise clients seeking to learn how to prune their trees. Our intention is to "design ourselves out of the system" helping people to be able to care for their plant friends themselves over time and coming to understand through observation their trees' changing needs and how these are communicated. However, we will consider pruning only jobs too. The hourly charge is the same for pruning with education or just the pruning service. 

We do not usually prune commercial orchards as the priorities tend to differ from home based orchards.

Food forest conversion $200+

We are developing a model to help orchard stewards convert their pre-existing orchards into food forests or more diverse/holistic orchards.

This process includes an initial 2 hours consultation/orchard walk and a plan of action and then at least 3 hours worth of labour implementing the plan. (This is the $200 option). We can also grow out plants for your food forest (see above for plant prices) and provide a more on going implementation schedule, at $40 per hour labour (per person).

Pruning workshops

We run holistic pruning workshops and are happy to discuss options for your space if this is an option. A holistic pruning workshop runs for 3-5 hours and costs $200 per hour. This includes 2 insured educators and will usually result in a lot of pruning being done. The maximum people we can have at a workshop is 30. 

Holistic orchard/food forest design consultation $50 ph

See consultation process and rates outlined above.