Edible Landscape Design & Installation

Beautiful, dynamic & productive gardens that nourish

Courtyard + Wildflowers + Herbs + Key Hole Vegetable Beds – Design/Install 2015/16

Our services are tailored to suit your needs: whether you need complete drawn layout plans, site specific plant lists, planting plans or advice and a site assessment with our initial consultation package.

We work closely with you using permaculture design process. Involving your input as much as possible in decision making to develop a landscape unique to your needs. We aim to impart to you the Permaculture principles, strategies and patterns as we work. This will leave you in good stead to continue evolving and adapting your garden as it grows.

Permaculture Design and biological (organic) principles and strategies are used to create productive, healthy, and ecologically regenerative landscapes. Household ‘wastes’ become resources for the garden. Thoughtful and resourceful planning is employed, using the least inputs (saving you money) to create maximum yields and benefits.

Our services are backed up by over a decade of local experience in Otago of edible landscape design, installation, plant selection and project management. See examples of our projects.

We are Your Home Orchard & Berry Garden Design & Install Experts

Permaculture Orchard Central Otago – Design/Planting 2016

Fruit trees are the long living high production backbone of your edible garden. We create productive, unique & enjoyable orchard layouts.

We have an in depth knowledge of fruit types and specific varieties in Otago – we design orchards that suit your specific needs and your unique site. We select for suitability to your microclimate and for naturally healthy varieties that have strong genetic disease resistance.

This ensures that you enjoy a diverse delicious fruit over a long harvesting period from plants that are easy to care for.

We Also Design, Install & Maintain:

- - Kitchen gardens, potager
    gardens, herb gardens & complete edible landscapes
  - Super productive, easy care no-dig gardens, terracing, raised beds or row crops, – strategies, and styles of growing are selected specifically for you and your site
  - Food forests, multilayered woodland like food gardens and permaculture orchards
  - Native Plantings – Ecosystem specific trees, shrubs & grasses for biodiversity, birds, shelter, beauty and ecosystem services
  - Chickens / Ducks, if desired, are often included in a way that benefit orhards and berry gardens or other tree crops. Helping with weed control and composting all the while providing lovely fresh eggs and companionship
  - Ponds, and water gardens that store water in and passively irrigate the landscape. These are beautiful garden features in themselves
  - We supply quality plants for your garden. Types and varieties of food plants are carefully selected for the micro-climates of your site. We recommend varieties that have been proven to be tasty, productive and disease resistant. We grow many great varieties here in our own Heritage Fruits Nursery
  - We provide soil testing (contaminants and fertility) and recommendations – Biological / Permaculture techniques and strategies used. Work to Certified Organic standards as required
  - We provide back-up support to ensure the ongoing success of your garden

Our Process

Initial Consultation, Site Assessment & Advice

Landscape Earth works for water systems such as ponds, swales and water gardens, these look great and passively store water and irrigate your plants Soils amended using organic methods – minerals, compost and mulches On-site advice and recommendations to begin, improve or expand your edible garden.

This can be the starting point for a full garden design or it may be all you need to get you rolling on your own.

- - We introduce Permaculture design principles
  - We provide 30+ pages of resources: Recommended Local Plants, Soils, Planting Guide, Key principles & Concepts. Plus our A3 Wall chart Orchard Planner & Vegetable Growing Calendar as well as our Edible & Useful Trees & Shrubs Booklet
  - We will assess your site’s soil and climate, the overall layout of your garden and talk through your needs and ideas
  - We then discuss basic layout solutions and recommend what types of food plants will grow successfully on your site
  - Notes are taken and a layout sketch drawn on-site onto aerial images
  - Smaller / less detailed projects may be marked out onsite in this time (such as small orchards, vegetable gardens)

Allow three hours for this.

“Dear Jason, It was so lovely to brainstorm with you and pick your brain all morning, very inspiring, thank you so much. Oh that is a perfect plan, I love love love every bit of your awesome advice, it really helps to concentrate our efforts! So exciting to work towards a permaculture goal that is achievable and all part of developing your own piece of paradise! Thank you!!!!” K & C 2020

“Jason came and gave us advice on how to create a microclimate in our property by ways of co-planting different native species for shelter, cultivating the soil and choosing suitable varieties of fruit trees. We really liked his explantations because he could provide the scientific reason behind his suggestions. Jason also helped troubleshoot some of our exisiting problems and gave us advice on future prevention. We are excited to find a direction for our landscaping that is backed up by science. We find his consultation very helpful and would highly recommend his service. Thank you Jason!” X 2020

Edible Landscape Layout Plan

Permaculture Orchard Central Otago – Design/Planting 2016

Following the initial consult. A second site assessment and a site trial of layouts is made (with you if possible). A plan is then drawn up onsite or offsite depending on detail required.

This layout plan provides a plan view layout of your landscape. Showing how the various elements of the garden fit and work together. This is invaluable for moving ahead with either staged of full garden development.

Detailed Design

Kowhai Grove Masterplan – Design 2016

Detailed design may include:

- - Staged Implimentation Plan: Earthworks and water systems, access, shelter and trees, structures, through to soil amendments and detailed planting
  - Hard Landscaping Layout Design
  - Planting Plan Layout Design
  - Planting Plan Species Lists: with type, varieties and numbers of plants detailed to ensure best success for your site
  - Written Report which may include; soil amendment recommendations, garden establishment strategy, maintenance schedule, plant and materials sources

Detailed design is often staged throughout installation to allow responsive decision making to evolving goals and site context.

Garden Installation, Planting & Maintenance

Let us establish & maintatin your edible garden so that you can focus on the gardening and harvesting!

Adaptive use of on site resources – We work resourcefully for maximum yield.

See Resilient City Garden for an example of resourceful staged installation.

Earth works. Access, terraces, microclimates. Water systems such as ponds, swales and water gardens, these look great and passively store water and irrigate your plants
Soils amended using organic methods – minerals, compost and mulches
Economic high production instant sheet mulch gardens and orchards. Maximum food with a minimum of costly infrastructure
Custom Macrocapa raised beds, compost bays, chicken runs, tunnel houses, paths, shelter belts, native plantings
Edible plants and other plants supplied & planted: reliable, productive varieties known to do well locally

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