SERVICES
Create an Edible Garden You’ll Love with Our Suite of Landscaping Services
Permaculture and Landscape Consultation
Consultations let us meet one another in person and understand your goals and vision for your new landscape. We’ll get to know your property and see its unique context, constraints and opportunities. A landscape consultation for a Seattle-sized property usually last two hours and is the first step in every project we do. Alternatively, consultations can be used to set you on the right track with your own project, by giving you the information and resources you need to make satisfying progress.
Permaculture and Integrated Landscape Design
We bring 20 years of experience in regenerative design to every project. Our landscape design is informed by: local and international agricultural experience, permaculture design, green building techniques, restoration ecology, conventional horticultural training, and multicultural design. We’re most inspired to provide a more in-depth and revolutionary level of design using permaculture ethics and principles. These additional levels of analysis take your landscape beyond sustainability to work with nature in creating natural systems of regeneration with soil, plants, water, energy, and waste.
Garden Installation – Planting, Construction of Garden
Structures, and more
Our team is experienced in successful soil building and planting knowledge and techniques, so your new plantings get off to an excellent start. We can create durable and sustainable structures for your productive and beautiful garden. From arbors to pergolas and benches to coops, we design and produce elements that reduce maintenance and improve functionality.
Natural and Organic Garden Maintenance
Healthy soil food webs, natural and renewable soil amendments, keen and on-going observation and records, and creation of beneficial plant relationships lie at the heart of our garden care plans. We focus on creating healthy soil, biodiversity and synergistic relationships, and apply ecology-based solutions that benefit humans and our local wildlife – bees, birds, butterflies and other native critters.
Soil Building including Sheet Mulching and Hügelkultur
We LOVE and want more people to understand how to create healthy soil - the foundation of a thriving garden! You can develop healthy soil with less effort and resources by using sheet mulching and hugelkultur. Sheet mulching is a no-till method of turning grass and weeds into great soil by covering soil with biodegradable barrier materials (like brown cardboard or coffee bags) and adding mulches below/above barrier (compost and wood chips – a favorite recipe). Hügelkultur is a composting process employing raised bed type construction with wood debris and other layered compostable biomass plant materials. The process helps to improve soil fertility, water retention, and soil warming, thus benefiting plants grown on or near such mounds.
Food Forests
A method of growing food using diverse, mostly perennial plants to emulate a woodland system. The plants occupy different vertical layers to maximize use of the sun’s energy, relationships between plants, water storage, and nutrients in the soil. The food forest layers are canopy (tallest trees), smaller trees, larger shrubs, small shrubs, perennials, vines, groundcovers, roots/tubers, and fungi. Over time, food forests are intended to decrease the amount of garden work needed, increase returns of abundant food, and produce forage for beneficial insects and pollinators, beauty, and a sense of well being.
Beneficial Wildlife Habitat
We can help you assess your property to see how you are providing the basic elements of habitat: food, water, cover, and a place for wildlife to raise their young. Creating a place for beneficial wildlife in gardens of all shapes and sizes helps the entire garden ecosystem. Learn how you can naturally attract and support more birds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects.
Integrating Urban Livestock (Chickens and Goats)
The past decade has seen a resurgence of small animals in our urban yards. We can help with consultation, design, and installation of systems to successfully integrate chickens and/or goats into your property. If animals are well raised, their assets are many: fertilization, clipping grass, eating weeds and leftovers, as well as hunting slugs and insects.
Garden Coaching (Individual and Small Group)
and Education Classes
Our goal is to help you to become a more skilled and confident gardener. In an easy-going manner, we share our knowledge and experience with you about garden maintenance including working with edibles (working on hands-on tasks together). We love sharing our insights about plant relationships and species on your property and coming up with strategies for creating successful permaculture systems.
We partner with local organizations like Beacon Food Forest, Seattle Tilth, Cascade Gardener Program, and King Conservation District, to provide education on wide range of garden-related topics including soil building, plant guilds, water conservation, creating beneficial wildlife habitat, and food forests.
Use Water Wisely: Rain Gardens and Rainwater Harvesting
Using water wisely is a familiar topic these days in our ever warming and drying climate. It is ideal to capture precipitation from rooftops and impervious surfaces and send it to the landscape’s soil for deep watering and to restore the water table below. You can often collect water in a variety of tank/cistern sizes to support new plantings to establishment and provide water for annual gardening during our drought times. You will also be keeping stormwater from overflowing into Puget Sound and be more prepared with a water supply for natural disasters and emergencies.
"I love cooking and so does my husband and now our kids are starting to cook too and I want them to know where food comes from. My experience with Oasis has been fantastic. I love their approach. I can work on the garden with her and learn alongside them, or if I’m too busy, they’ll just take care of things. I really value that flexibility. I feel like they’re supporting my vision, not telling me what I should or shouldn’t do, or plant. Kimberly and Aaron are such a positive influence it’s been a fantastic experience. They’re creative, attentive and wonderful to work with." ~Angela, Capitol Hill