Consultation and Design
“It is said 5 minutes of planning is worth 15 minutes of doing". With landscape design and growing food, 5 minutes of planning is worth dozens and dozens of hours of doing, and can save thousands of dollars and headaches”
-Michael Seliga-Soulseed, El Presidente de Cascadia Edible Landscapes
Our Process:
We have you fill out our Edible Landscape Questionnaire and Letter of Engagement, and then Schedule Inital Phone Call, followed by a site visit, or online appointment (if applicable). We typically call to discuss the project over the phone first, and then send homework based on your current situation and needs. For simple consultations, we can do a remote conversation and tour and send you a simpler follow up. If the site is complex enough, or our consultant needs to understand the site-specific limitations, then we will schedule a time to come out and meet.
If the client opts to take notes, then our time is limited to the site and we will give you our ideas, best practices, vendors, tips to apply your budget wisely, and connect you to various contractors/specialists to help you on your way. If client requests we put together a report, typically it is done in a PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation.
Costs
First 10-15 minute phone Call: Pro Bono, (schedule here)
Consultation Online= $150/hour for Zoom/Online Only
On-site Consultation= $400 for 3 Hour Package (-$25 for filling out letter of engagement). We come having reviewed your questionnaire and hopefully have spoken with you too. We come with satellite and county based background information and maps to discuss your goals with you the various options for edible landscapes, including all hardscaping, edible and ornamental plants, irrigation, maintenance requirements, aesthetic considerations $150 for the first hour and $150/hr thereafter with 30 minutes free travel time, and 1/2 transit billable from NE Portland at the 84/205 interchange or Hood River, OR, whichever is closer to you. We will walk the site and note the various options and can leave you with simple sketches and notes the day of consultation. We will take our detailed notes and write up a basic word-based report, or put together a Powerpoint or Google Slides for up to 1 hour of slides. This is sufficient for most suburban lots, but may require more time for larger sites.
$150/Hr for each additional of Consultation Report, if its a very large project, or Landscape Design if engaged to do so. We can do a lot with a Powerpoint/Google Slide show with captions, picture and plant overlays, arrows, and critical notes that could save you thousands on build costs.
Design Costs: Typical urban, suburban and and small or simple rural designs range from $1500-3500+, and can be specified in more person on the design elements, grades, complexities requested and needed. Larger Properties will be on the high side of that, and quite possibly more. We can do hand drawn designs for simpler projects and CAD designs for larger more complicated projects with likely amendments and changes.
