For the property that should be doing more.
Regenerative landscape design and installation for estate owners in the DC metro, Hamptons, and New England. Whole-systems thinking. Real yields. Land that pays for itself for a generation.
A 5.8-acre estate, sequenced for productivity.
A working landscape designed around an existing apple block, expanded into a 40-tree food forest with layered berry, herb, and native understory. Duck pond and rainwater capture feed the growing system. Conservation program strategy layered from year one.
Read the full dossier →What they say
after the first year.
Dane is an incredible specialist with outstanding design skills who truly listens and acts on your needs and goals. There are simply not enough knowledgeable, dedicated people focused on making homes beautiful, sustainable, and regenerative. I'm really happy I began making my home work for me.
I enjoyed working with Dane to transform my front yard into a beautiful, functional space that combines native and edible gardening. He listened well to my vision and designed a layout with plants suited for my zone. While my neighbors prefer traditional styles, I am very happy with the unique garden we have created.
Dane helped get my family excited about the land we live on. My kids love running through the garden and pulling berries every week. It changed how we use our home.
Professionalism, punctuality, quality, responsiveness, value. Dane constructed a permanent cairn for my front yard and I absolutely love it. He did a great job making it look like it was actually balanced. Several visitors have already been fooled.
Dane has a great eye for natural form and works hard to get the job done. He has a rare balance of artistic eye and trade skill, and it shows in the work.
A walled garden that runs on an hour a day.
25 by 25 feet, 52+ plant species, closed-loop chicken and worm systems. Designed around a client vision of cultivated wildness: pockets of beauty and function at every turn, without feeling staged. Impressionistic in style, practical at its core.
Read the full dossier →Five estates. Five distinct visions.
See selected work →Three ways in.
One standard of care.
Remote Strategy
A senior read on your property, delivered as a written strategy document. Site analysis from imagery, priority actions, and phased recommendations.
Regenerative Estate Plan
The full master plan. On-site walk, whole-property design, phased implementation, and conservation program strategy where applicable.
Design + Build
Design through installation, with our field team executing the work under direct oversight. One accountable relationship from concept to completion.
Every property is read on its own terms.
Before a design is proposed, we spend weeks reading the land. Sun paths, soil layers, drainage, existing plant communities, wind patterns, microclimates. What follows is a working page from the earliest phase of an active estate project. This is what "whole-systems thinking" actually looks like on paper.
- Property
- 5.8 acres · Great Falls, VA
- Hardiness
- USDA Zone 7b
- Climate
- Humid subtropical (CFA)
- Rainfall
- ~40 in / year
- Production
- 40 tree orchard · 50+ perennial vegetables · 12 chickens · 2 apiaries
- Sun exposure
- Full sun 60% · dappled 25% · deep shade 15%
- Water
- Well water, plus ~30k gal/yr catchment potential · swale and capture routed to orchard and coop
- Constraints
- Deer pressure, HOA setback 25 ft, no septic in E paddock
Four phases. Two seasons to a plan. Returns for a generation.
A 15-minute call. Then a written proposal with fixed pricing. No obligation and no surprises.
Site walk, soil work, hydrology and sun-path analysis. The design starts here, not with our ideas.
Master plan with phased implementation, incentive strategy, and a delivery document detailed enough to build from.
Optional installation by our field team under direct oversight. Optional stewardship retainer to keep the system on autopilot.
If your land could be doing more, let's find out.
A 15-minute call. Tell us about the property. We'll tell you the right way to start.
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