Landscape design, planting, and full farm planning.

Wesley is based in Terrace, British Columbia, and works with clients well beyond it. Installation happens locally and on travel-based projects, and consultations and design work run over Google Meet from anywhere. If you have a site in mind, get in touch and he will tell you whether it is a fit.

Permaculture is designing land so it does more of the work for you. That means plants that come back on their own, soil that gets better every year instead of needing to be topped up, and water routed on purpose so it is not pooling in one corner and washing out another. Ordinary landscaping is mostly about how a space looks the day it is finished. Permaculture is about how it behaves in year ten.

Both. A lot of his work right now is on the larger end, farm builds, homesteads and grounds for public buildings, but residential yards, rockwork and greenhouses are just as welcome. The approach does not change much with the size of the site. It starts with reading the ground and understanding what you want from it.

Both, and you can hire Wesley for either one on its own. Some people want drawings they can build themselves or hand to a contractor. Others want the design and then the hardscape and the planting. Say which you are after on the discovery call and the job gets scoped that way.

Scaled drawings you can build from, a planting plan with species chosen for this climate, and a phased sequence so the work can be spread over several seasons instead of done all at once. The drawings carry real dimensions, so a crew can price the job and build straight from them.

Yes. Consultations run over Google Meet, and a lot of design work does not need Wesley on the site, especially if you can send photos, measurements or a rough site survey. Installation is a different question and depends on where you are, so get in touch and he will sort it out.

Earlier than most people expect, because the build season here is short and wet. Doing some design and planning work in the winter is ideal, so the shovels can come out in the spring. If you want work done next season, reach out and we can get the conversation started now.

Terrace is zone 7a. That is milder than most people expect this far north, and it has warmed up from 6b over the last forty years. Zones only measure how cold it gets in winter though, so 7a will not tell you whether your tomatoes ripen. Here the limit is a short, cool, cloudy summer, which is why so much growing in the Skeena happens under cover.

More than the zone number suggests and less than the internet promises. Hardy fruit, a wide range of berries, brassicas and root crops all do well in the Skeena. Heat-lovers like tomatoes, peppers and corn need protection to finish, which is why greenhouses and tunnels matter so much here.

Yes, and both are a good part of the work right now. A passive solar greenhouse uses south-facing glazing, insulated back and side walls, and thermal mass so it holds heat overnight without much input. A root cellar holds crops through winter on steady cold and steady humidity, with vents set low and high to move air. In this much rain, drainage around the cellar is what makes or breaks it.

Yes. Alongside K5T and Vancouver Island University he built the only Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist program in Northern BC, and taught it. That work is open to other organizations and communities: curriculum development, community food-growing programs, and hands-on workshops. Details on the Teaching page.

This is a growing part of the work. Community farms, teaching gardens, production greenhouses and food storage all sit inside what Wesley does, and he has built ground like this before. Projects like these need more than a planting plan. They need a site read, a phased build, and a design that still runs in year five when different people are looking after it.