Alternatives to gravel in your landscape
Last month we posted a blog about, what appears to be increased use of gravel within landscapes of new homes on Vancouver Island, at least in the mid-island area. If you haven’t read this you might want to take a moment, you can find it here… We had a massive response...
OSU online PDC discount
We will be instructing an online PDC, along with some of permacultures super stars, this coming January 2019. If your looking to take a Permaculture Design Certificate course this is the finest online program currently being offered. You can check the course out using...
Gravel is Not the Answer
I see a growing trend within new subdivisions on Vancouver Island where gravel is being used as a replacement for grass or another ground cover. I believe this is an example of short-term thinking and economics, people are being sold a bill of goods without seeing the...
Myths Within the Landscape-Part Two
This blog post focuses on another garden myth, this time it's, “If I plant fewer plants within a given area this result in less work for me in terms of maintenance, less plants equal less work.” I see a huge variety of plantings in both commercial and residential...
Myths Within the Landscape-Part One
Gardening is an incredibly popular activity that many of us spent our leisure time engaged with. We get to connect with the soil, plants, and soil organisms which live in and around our landscapes. If you Google gardening you’ll get over 12.5 million pages of...
Discount on OSU Online courses
Here's your chance to save some money on two excellent online courses coming up which are offered by Oregon State University. Online Permaculture Design Certificate Advanced Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience By using the discount code JWPerm you'll...
Eight Questions To Ask Your Next Landscaping Company To Protect Yourself
Eight Questions To Ask Your Next Landscaping Company To Protect Yourself From An Unpleasant Experience (And Make Sure You Don’t Need To Leave a Bad Google Review Of Your Own) + The Only Answers You Should Accept 1. Are you confident that our project is a...
WE GOT A BAD REVIEW ON GOOGLE (and it’s good news for you)…
WE GOT A BAD REVIEW ON GOOGLE (and it’s good news for you)... On Jan. 23rd 2018, I got a notification from a colleague that we'd gotten a 1.0-star rating (out of five) on Google Reviews. ,. Well, it actually wasn't Jaan Designs who received this review. The review...
Composting 101 – Basic composting skills workshop
Composting Workshop March 3rd, 2018 10:00am-noon 3050 West Road, Nanaimo, BC Wish you were composting more but not sure where to start? Come to our workshop and discover how easy it really is. Jamie Wallace will take you through the process, step by step. Learn how to...
ACRD Agricultural Workshop-Agricultural scale water harvesting and storage
We're super happy to be partnering up with the ACRD and presenting a two and a half hour workshop Oct. 26th from 6:30-9:00pm at Beaver Creek Community Hall in Port Alberni.