ONLINE PERMACULTURE Site Consult
NOTE: Over the last year, demand for our online and on-site consults has roughly tripled. After booking, please look to hear back from us within a week and to have the consult scheduled within 3-4 weeks of payment.
How It Works
The Remote Site Consultation is a 60-minute online consultation for landowners/land managers with sites or projects they’re developing or refining. This consultation aids in site/project planning and is tailored to help clients review key decisions that set them on a path to accomplishing their goals.
The remote consultation includes a review of your project goals and the site via aerial imagery and contour maps. During our video call, we’ll discuss the most pressing questions you have about your project and identify primary opportunities and challenges to reaching your project goals. We may discuss challenges and opportunities such as:
Ideal locations for orchard, pond, garden, parking, etc
Water harvesting, resiliency, drought-proofing, and waterscaping approaches
Where to expand food production areas and how
Access challenges, and how to improve them
Microclimate enhancement for expanded outdoor use
Home and built infrastructure issues and how to improve them
All work with clients is always carried out under a professional duty of confidentiality.
PROCESS
To book a consultation, click the "Book Consultation" button at the top of the page.
Once we receive your payment, we'll send you a confirmation email containing a worksheet to help you outline your project goals.
After we receive your completed intake goals form, we'll provide you with a scheduling link to set up your consultation appointment.
COST
Online consultations cost $500. They include about 20 minutes of prep time for our team to perform a site review, 60 minutes of video conference time, and up to two follow-up emails if needed. Time can be extended hourly for $225/hr.
Reduced cost option: This is the same consult at a reduced cost ($325) for those happy to allow WSD to utilize a recording of the consult for teaching purposes (while maintaining the confidentiality of names and specific locations). By selecting this option, you understand the recording of the Zoom call may be shared with an audience of WSD students in workshops at a later date (not live).
Both options are live online consults with the client and only with the client.
Repeat online consults are $225 per consult.
Testimonials
“The one-hour consultation was incredibly valuable. It helped me look at the contour lines to pick a house building site. When I went back to look at the property after the consultation, I could see it with new eyes... ”
From Jesse & Family, in Tennesse:
"It was very helpful to have a live discussion with Ben and work through the analysis of the terrain features when identifying the most optimal building site for our homestead. Ben truly listened to our plans and concerns and worked through the process in a very informative and beneficial way. I highly recommend this consult before you break any ground on your land to make sure your plans are optimized for your goals. We received more information and guidance from Ben than we thought before the consult, and he even reviewed how we can start gathering supplies to compost to be a resource available in the years to come. Ben took our input and our goals sheet and put together an amazing plan to start the design and building processes for our homestead. Worth every penny, we feel like we have a partner and a wealth of knowledge in our tool belt for years to come."