Designing for abundance in dry conditions
A 60-minute online consultation to explore the possibilities for your garden, food forest or homestead—and the decisions that will shape it.
Whether you’re starting with bare ground or adapting an existing property, we’ll consider how your goals fit with your climate, landscape and available resources.
My focus is on abundant and productive systems for drylands, including places becoming hotter and drier. Permaculture principles guide how we look at the property as a whole, connecting water, access, structures, trees and growing areas.
What we can explore
Your questions will guide the conversation. Topics can include:
Property layout: how growing areas, tree systems, access and structures relate to one another.
Water: rainwater collection, storage and use, and their role in the wider design.
Productive growing systems: planning vegetable gardens, small food forests and homestead systems suited to your conditions.
Your proposed ideas: discussing options and trade-offs before investing in planting or infrastructure.
Implementation: deciding what to investigate, establish and develop first.
We’ll focus on the questions that matter most to your next steps, whether you need help getting started or want another perspective on a plan already taking shape.
What’s included
A brief review of the information you submit when booking.
A 60-minute video call with me, Shawn Steyn, focused on your property and questions.
An emailed summary of our discussion and suggested next steps, with helpful resources where applicable.
Consultations are available internationally, in English.
A drawn mainframe design is a separate service, scoped and quoted individually. We can discuss whether one would be useful during your consultation, with no obligation to commission further work.
Book your consultation
Choose an available time, tell me about your property and the questions you’d like to discuss, and complete payment through the booking page.
The current price and available times are shown when you book.