Permaculture & Regenerative Design

Western Colorado High Desert Sustainability for Home, Farm & Urban Settings

Learn

Start your project with a professional consultation.

Design

Save time, energy and money with detailed, proactive design.

Thrive

Combine inspiration & knowledge into an actionable plan.

Practical Solutions to Provide for People
and Care for the Land

Permaculture is a system of design that emphasizes practical solutions for everyday living and also looks as far ahead as possible so that future impacts are positive and beneficial.

Effective design emerges from an ongoing dialogue that considers individual goals and needs, responsible stewardship, and what a given piece of land or ecology can support.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Each location and project is unique.

Serving Western Colorado including:
Grand Junction, Montrose, Glenwood, Gunnison, Delta, Paonia, Hotchkiss, Cedaredge and Crawford.

Services

  • Home garden and farm consulting
  • Garden and edible landscape design
    • Species selection, placement and pricing
    • Detailed 2d and 3d visualizations
    • Virtual walk-throughs
    • Mapping & site surveys
  • Irrigation design
    • Field and garden
    • Low pressure & gravity systems
  • Installation
    • I'll work with you or help assemble a team to implement your design.

Aaron Jerad Colorado Permaculture Designer

Aaron Jerad - Owner

Ready to get started?

Fill out the project intake form and then we will set up a virtual or on-site meeting:

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Service Examples:

Conceptual design to help with the 'big picture'

urban permaculture layout

General and/or specific plant species location

urban permaculture plants

3d modeling helps you see what the project will look like.

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Recent Permaculture Articles:

My Top 10 (or so) Permaculture Books

Introduction to Permaculture – Bill Mollison, Teaming with Microbes – Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewi, Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability – David Holmgren, Gaia’s Garden – Toby Hemenway…

Sorrel in a guild with yarrow, comfrey and lovage around a peach tree.

Spring Garden Abundance – Lemon Asparagus Sauté

Visiting David Holmgren’s property as an intern I had a distinct experience of abundance and harmonizing with the seasons.  This … Read more

Gluten-free sourdough pancake breakfast

The best gluten-free (sourdough) pancakes… ever.

Creating the perfect, light fluffy and yummy pancake has been an ongoing goal of mine, one I now think I … Read more

A Permaculture Design Consultation: an outline of the general process and detailed questionnaire.

Design and Consulting Outline Step one: Questionnaire. The design questionnaire is intended to gather as much information as possible about … Read more

A diagram depicting the permaculture design process.

Permaculture Design Tree
a diagram of the process

In this diagram I liken the design process to a living tree. The process starts with a ‘seed’ of inspiration … Read more

The Soil Food Web. Image from USDA National Resources Conservation Service

How to build soil like nature does – soil science basics for beginners

Its dark. You are surrounded by giant flesh eating amoebas. You can’t move very fast… Welcome to the world of … Read more