Consultations + Garden Design +
Installation + Sourcing + Pruning + More
Are you interested in learning about how to manage your outdoor space more sustainably? Perhaps you would like to know what plant species you have and how to care for them. Or maybe you’re looking to integrate more permaculture systems into an existing space. Regardless, we can help!
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Garden Design
We will help you start or continue work on your garden or food forest. From plant ID, bed design, sourcing materials and more there is a lot we can help you with.
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Water Systems
Watering your garden doesn’t have to be time consuming and expensive. Using simple and cheap systems, we can help you store and distribute rainwater.
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Keeping Chickens
Everyone knows about the eggs, but chickens can also help produce large amounts of compost and it’s possible to grow much of their food.
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Greenhouses
Greenhouses can help you grow different species for longer in the year, plus, they don’t have to be expensive, large, or hard to build.
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Pruning
Pruning is essential for maintaining the health and producivity of many species. We can teach you how, when, and where to prune and also perform the work ourselves!
Creating our nursery and gardens has been incredibly rewarding, but it is not without its challenges. Our farm has sandy soils, numerous invasive weeds, and an abundance of pests. It has been a steep learning curve figuring out the best ways to irrigate our plants, ward off pests, create healthy soils, and tend to our chickens. But we always keep the goal of making our systems low-cost and as self-sufficient as possible.
Our philosophy of working the land might be described as permaculture, regenerative, or even just frugal, but our gardens, nursery, fields, and woodlands provide quite the bounty to plants, animals, and humans alike. And we find a more hands off/wild approach leads to super productive and beautiful landscapes.
Pricing
Site Visits & Consultations
Landscape/Garden Design & Project Management
$35/hour flat + Gas
$25/hour flat (VIRTUAL)
$35/hour flat
$25/hour flat (VIRTUAL)
Clearing, Pruning, Installation
$40/hour per person
If you live more than 20 miles from Limington we ask for an additional $15-30 for gas/travel time.
Sliding scale options available!
Email us at whalebacknursery@gmail.com
Site Visits & Consultations
For most projects, we start with a site visit to your outdoor space to discuss your goals and what you would like to accomplish. From there, we can help you ID certain plants, come up with a plan for invasive species, teach you how to propagate other plants, and really just share our knowledge about how to manage your space to reach your goals. We can suggest plants to add, plants to remove, succession planting, food forest creation, and more. This option is great for those who want to learn a little bit more about how to use permaculture and regenerative practices in their space. Our goal is to spread knowledge about native species, tips on how to re-wild your yard, provide resources on how to obtain native plants, and give you inspiration to get your hands dirty!
Landscape/Garden Design & Project Management
After a consultation, you can partner with us further to help bring some of your visions to life. We can take photos of your space, identify specific micro-climates, and come up with a tailor made digital installation plan for your specific space. We will take your ideas and goals home with us and create with a digital map of your ideal outdoor space. We’ll select and suggest different options based on different spaces and can scale up or down as you please. We can even do this for annual vegetable gardens if you don’t want to fuss about it. We also will provide you with suggestions of where to source plants!
Clearing, Pruning, & Installation
To make real change happen you have to get your hands dirty! But if that’s not your jam, we got you! As our schedule allows, we can tackle the hard work for you. This can involve clearing spaces, pruning trees, or installing the vision we helped you create! Shoot us an inquiry to see if we’re available.