Permaculture Consultation Services

Property Analysis and Master Planning

Bringing the beauty and power of the earth to you with 20 years of experience in permaculture design. We help create financial and ecological security for our clients by capitalizing on nature and investing in the long term resilience of forests, farms and local economies.

We assess a property for it's potential to meet your vision and dreams for your life in an ecological manner. We will help you to become native to the place that you will call home. After you send us your Permaculture wishlist for your vision we give you pointers of what to look for, we give you advice and insights to narrow down the selection process and fine tune it with our permaculture design intelligence filters.

What We Do:

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• Design & Build Homes, Cabins and Communities

• Site Analysis, Gardens, Orchards

• Create Master Plans, Ponds, Off Grid Energy & Water Systems

• Native Edible Gardening

• Recent Projects Portfolio

Permaculture Whole Site Design

We create comprehensive Permaculture designs tailor suited to your dreams and visions for your life and the ecological communities that you live with. To begin the process send me your exact address and your Permaculture wishlist for the property, which should include all the elements you desire for me to incorporate into the design.

• Landscape Designs

• Mixing Edible & Native Plants

• Biointensive & Biodynamic Designs

• Vegetable Garden Designs

• SilvaPasture and Agroforestry

• Permaculture forest Gardens

• Biodynamic Orchard Designs

• Passive Solar Ecological Building Designs

• Native Landscapes

• Erosion Control

• Off the Grid Energy Systems

• Solar Power

• Micro Hydro

• Biogas Generators

• Natural building materials

Natural Building Healthy Homes

We combine our experience in natural building and landscape construction to create healthy homes for healthy people. We will site buildings to be well located in regards to water drainage around them and maximize the natural benefits of being oriented to the sun for winter homes and towards the north for passive cooling and root cellars. 

Andrew Faust is creating homes and communities rooted in a sense of the sacred in the eastern appalachian bioregions. He is turning on hundreds of New Yorkers to the beauty of applying permaculture design to a wide range of landscapes and projects.

His love of natural building and fresh water springs, moving water with gravity as well as growing food in ecological ways. In short, I am here on this Earth to help my fellow human beings to achieve a higher quality of life in sustainable, beautiful and resilient ways.

• Straw Bale Construction

• Clay Plasters

• Natural Paints

• Non-Toxic Finishes

• Pole Barns and Outbuildings

Andrew Faust - Permaculture Design Consultant

View Whole Site Permaculture Design Plans

Demonstrating in classes how to practice permaculture in the midst of the largest city in America, he integrates all of his lifelong wisdom of reading the northeastern corridor through Permaculture perspectives for clients and students. Now twenty years into his consultation services and projects, he is immersed in this landscape and can read it, sense it and design/build in tune with natural lay of the land as only someone who has homesteaded off the grid for eight years, as an intentional pursuit in a deeper wisdom of his understanding of Permaculture and all its facets, can.

• Research, Background Information and Reports on Real-Estate

• Pre-purchase site inspections

• Selecting land for homesteads, ecovillages and communities

• Designs, Installation and Maintenance

• Training On-Site Owners and Property Managers

• Permaculture Master Planning