Welcome!
Design driven by permaculture ideas opens your world to life’s infinite potential.
One person - even one with decades of landscape, plant, soil and microclimate experience - can only do so much using conventional farming techniques. Traditionally, farming, indeed gardening, has been approached as a constant struggle with nature. The first thing I learned when I bought Squirrel Farm seven years ago is that if the vision were to become real I would have to work with Nature rather than against her.
This whole venture takes place in the zone permaculturists call ‘edge’. Edge is where critical change happens. Through careful observation of edge, in all its permutation, the land I work on taught me the principles of permaculture before I had even heard the term.
Here at Squirrel Farm, every living thing serves at least three purposes. Every action accomplishes at least three goals. When I make a decision it has to take into account the possible outcomes in three dimensions and across the past, present and future life of the farm.
Permaculture design means seeing and hearing: Seeing the possibilities inherent in a piece of land’s deep structure; and hearing what my client is really telling me. One encounters the word observation all the time in the company of the permaculture community. In my design work, observation incorporates all five senses - perhaps a sixth sense as well.
About the Farm
Can you afford to overlook your biggest asset?
Profit, productivity and peace of mind
begin where you work,
where your employees work
We create human habitats
enhancing who you are,
amplifying what you do
energizing how you do it
with affordable answers
We draw upon Permaculture, Feng Shui
and a world of experience communicating
Wake your work up
Bet the farm on a winner:
Squirrel Farm
~ Green is Good! ~
At Squirrel Farm we offer residential and commercial design services as well as hands-on experience of that elusive Eureka! moment born out of finding solutions within problems.
Escape traditional landscaping and create a unique environment reflecting your personal needs, skills and dreams. Squirrel Farm offers a year round roster of services.
“The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.”Bill Mollison,
Permaculture: A Designer's Manual
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Online Store
All T-Shirts are $20 plus $5 shipping and handling.
Care
These shirts are stencils, not silk screens. Each shirt is a piece of "wearable art." Each shirt is subtly unique. The fabric and ink used in creating Squirrel Farm clothing is the same as that used in mass-producing silk screened articles. It is recommended - but not essential - that you iron your Squirrel Farm shirt before its first wash. Wash by hand in cold water. Your shirt is dryer-safe but air drying is preferable.
Service
Feel free to contact us with your questions, comments or suggestions. We value feedback! And don't forget, Squirrel Farm can design high-profile logos incorporating memorable visual identity, warmth and wit for your company or venture. One call is all it takes to launch your vision.
Custom work is available for an additional $5-10. If you want to order a custom design, simply get in touch with us.
Squirrel Farm
2325 SE Troutdale Road, Troutdale, Oregon 97060
971-645-5232
info at squirrelfarm dot org