Identifying your vision and goals is an important first step toward creating your new landscape.
Our Concept Design is a Site Plan that includes Infrastructure, Roads & Paths, Major Design Elements, General Plant & Crop Layout, and Building Concepts.
What does it include?
Property Evaluation & Comprehensive Interview
Base Map - includes aerial imagery & topography
Full-Color Digital Design
Design Report
Our Site Assessments will help you identify assets, opportunities and liabilities on your land. It will assist in your decision making process, so that you can conscientiously invest in the property to meet your goals.
What can it include?
Land Walk
Comprehensive Interview
Base Map - Includes aerial imagery, parcel boundaries, topographic contours, water flow and soil map
Onsite Evaluation of the site features such as water, infrastructure, access, roads, fencing, soil and existing plant communities
Drone Flyover for accurate and current mapping imagery
Are you involved in a land planning project and need a high quality map ASAP? Our EcoMaps are the first step towards your landscape design, conservation project, or environmental study. We create high resolution maps in PDF format that are 36" in width by 24" in height for many location in the USA.
Our EcoMaps provide an in-depth look at your landscape, and can include satellite imagery, topography, soil, slope, hydrology, geology, climate, and other data layers.
Currently available only in the U.S.A.
Our Detail Design includes everything in the Concept Design, plus a Comprehensive Plant List, Plant Details & Spacing, Fence & Grazing Plan, Design Element Specifications, Pond & Earthwork Concepts, Cross Section Drawings.
What does it include?
Property Evaluation & Comprehensive Interview
Base Maps - includes aerial imagery, topography, soil classifications
(PDF and/or hardcopy)
Full-Color Digital Design (PDF and/or hardcopy)
Design Report
We develop:
Pollinator Plans
Water Plans
Forestry Plans
Grazing Plans
For land owners interested in increasing the
ecological, economic, or wildlife value of their property
We can also help you apply for funding for your project.
Ecological Design’s experienced team is certified as Permaculture Designers and Teachers, trained in Regenerative Design and Holistic Management, and bring more than 20 years of on-the-ground experience to the table. We are available to present or host workshops.
natural capital plant database
Paula Westmoreland co-created this incredibly innovative and useful Plant Database that is used by thousands of people all across the globe every year.
The Natural Capital™ Plant Database is a repository of temperate climate plant information for ecological design. We use citations from multiple sources and provide detail on plant characteristics, tolerances and behaviors, ecological functions, human uses, concerns, and plant associates.
this perennial Land
This Perennial Land, co-written by our founder Paula Westmoreland, is the story of a beautiful and intensely farmed land that has been written off as a ''sacrificial landscape''-a natural place ceded entirely to industrial use--even by many concerned about the environment.
Accompanied by a remarkable ''opportunity map'' it offers a rough blueprint--a conceptual starting point--for landowners, policymakers, and citizens who want a part in forging a new vision for returning health, beauty, and economic stability to corn and soybean country.
Mastodon Valley Farm School
Lindsay Rebhan and ecologist farmer Peter Allen share their 4 Step farm design process - for participants to design their own regenerative farms.