Sun and Soil offers a range of services including permaculture garden design and installation, garden mentoring and educational sessions.
DESIGN SERVICES
INITIAL Consultation
The first step in any permaculture garden design process is the initial consultation session, where we come out and meet with you on site to take a look around and get a feel for what you need.
A consultation session normally takes 2-3 hours and involves:
An initial chat (maybe over a cup of tea), where we will ask you about the history of the space, what you would like to achieve, any limitations that we need to know about and any ideas you already have.
A walk around with you to view the space - a ‘garden tour’.
A second walk around by us to check factors like the sun and soil along with identifying any site limitations or opportunities
A wrap up discussion to present you with some recommendations on how you could transform your space to be more efficient, productive and abundant
Your ‘space’ might be a small backyard, a large rural acreage, a school, a community garden, a sidewalk outside a cafe or even a rooftop.
Cost: $250 (extra travel costs may apply outside the greater Brisbane area)
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CONCEPT Design PACKAGE
If you like the ideas discussed during the initial consult and would like to take the next step we also offer a concept design package which includes:
A conceptual layout plan (drawn to scale using CAD software) showing the existing features overlaid with proposed elements (such as garden beds, food forests, irrigation and composting systems, pathway networks, water storage, greywater re-use, chicken coops, greenhouses, etc). The plan will also break the space into ‘zones’ which will be referenced in the report.
A conceptual design report including detailed descriptions of the elements outlined on the design plan along with recommendations for plant groupings within the various zones. The report also includes an abundance of carefully curated information on areas such as composting systems, soil improvement, waterwise gardening and rainwater harvesting along with practical DIY guides on how to build your own raised garden beds, no-dig beds, pathways, garden edging, swales, herb spirals and more.
A comprehensive plant selection guide that you can use to select species that are suitable for each of the zones in your design.
Up to three revisions of the concept design.
Cost: from $660 for a small space (eg. small backyard) up to $1400 for a large acreage or similar*
*Note that the cost of the concept package is dependent on size of the site and complexity of the design. We can give you an exact cost during the intial consultation.
DETAILED Design PACKAGE
We can also provide detailed landscape designs which build on top of the concept design and include much more specific information such as:
Species planting layouts
Detailed designs and sections for garden elements
Quantities for various materials used
Dial Before You Dig reports
Cost estimate for implementation
Recommendations for other contractors if we cannot carry the implementation out ourselves
Advice on where to purchase materials and plants if you’d like to do the purchasing
Cost: Varies - to be advised once concept design stage is complete
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND Implementation SERVICES
If you absolutely love the concept design and can’t wait to get started, we can also help you create it.
We have extensive experience in building garden elements such as raised garden beds, drainage channels and swales, basic retaining structures, pathways, automatic irrigation systems, compost and worm farm facilities, screening or climbing structures. Our team are also expert planters and can assist all the way through to planting out your garden if you desire.
We can also offer project managment services for certain projects to oversee construction and deal with external contractors as needed.
If you would like to carry out some or all of the work yourself, we can provide some assistance with materials purchasing and provide general support at an hourly rate.
MENTORING AND COACHING SERVICES
We offer garden mentoring or coaching sessions to help you make the most of your current garden or to get you off to a flying start in your new garden. The sessions give you an opportunity to build your confidence with expert knowledge and direction for running a successful organic garden. The garden mentoring can be tailored to your requirements and could be a combination of any of the following:
General mentoring where we take you through the basics of organic gardening and answer any questions you have
More specific sessions focused on topics such as composting, companion planting, crop rotation, propagation, pruning etc.
Information sheets and resources
Please email us for mentor session pricing.
EDUCATION SERVICES
We offer educational packages for groups in the form of interactive workshops. We have extensive experience delivering workshops to both children and adults and can tailor the sessions for school groups, companies, community groups or even just a group of friends.
We can customise the workshop to cover any area of organic gardening or permaculture however we have listed some of our more common sessions below:
Growing and using herbs
Propagating plants
Composting masterclass
Growing and using medicinal plants
Native bees
No dig gardening
Urban permaculture
Please email us for minimum group sizes and session pricing.