Starting at $100/hr, with a 3 hour minimum, plus travel fee.

Travel fee: a rate of $0.65/mile from the home base of your designer (all designers are located in Virginia). Travel exceeding 4 hours from your designer’s home base requires overnight accommodations for your designer and is priced depending on availability in your area.

​​We prefer to meet with clients in-person, because we can gain a deeper understanding of the site in-person. We also offer a virtual option for a 3 hour “walk and talk” session for $300.

Our standard format is a 3 hour session, broken down into 3 parts:

• 1 hr. Discussion of Goals and Needs:  ​We want to get an in-depth feel for your site and your goals as a landowner or stakeholder.  We talk about personal history and context, site history and context, and get a strong idea of the foundation and setting of the site.  We help to clarify your goals, which will act as a springboard for your actions moving forward.

• 1 hr. Site Walk: ​We take time to walk the land with you, make observations, ask questions, and see the site itself.  We identify problems and opportunities, and get an objective picture of what's going on on the land.  In a virtual setting (see our remote services, below), this might look like a combination of Google Earth screensharing, county GIS imagery exploration, and a virtual walkabout led by you.

• ​1 hr. Ideation & Brainstorming: This is when we discuss potential design solutions and ideas including zones of use, placement of plant/animal systems, infrastructure, access and circulation, etc. This is the part where we brainstorm and ideate; giving specific advice on element location, species selection, materials, systems, scale, etc.  We can sketch out rough design ideas and offer suggestions for placement of elements, energy flows on the site, opportunities for plant and animal systems, etc. as-needed. This is the time to ask all of your questions and get specific or detailed information.  It is easy for this portion of the consult to take a bit longer than an hour, particularly on a large site, and it may be wise to schedule a 3.5-4 hour consult for certain sites, or if you have a lot of very specific questions.

• For sites of 20+ acres, we strongly recommend, and may require, that you have 2 designers present for your consultation.  This increases the fee to $150/hr.

• You may request 2 designers if you simply prefer to have more eyes on the site, which also increases the fee to $150/hr.