The Practice · A Practical Catalog

Goods & services for living systems.

Everything we do, grouped by the seven things a property runs on.

We don't sort this list by trade — irrigation here, masonry there. We sort it by what the property needs: water, soil, habitat, food, energy, place, and the long care that keeps it all going.

Most of it connects. Fix the water and the soil starts working. Build the soil and the plants stop dying. Pick the system closest to your problem and start there.

The Seven Systems
New · Organic Inputs

32 organic inputs that actually work.

Soil biology, pest balance, the KNF microbiome, and minerals. A working catalog with the vendors, prices, and application rates we actually use.

Compost tea. Biochar. Beneficial nematodes. Predatory mites. FPJ. WCA. EM-1. Where we can teach you to make it for free, we do.

Open the catalog 5 sections · 32 items · 7 make-it articles · symptom matrix
§ I

Water.

Water moves through every property whether you plan for it or not. Most drainage problems don't get fixed by trenching — they get fixed by reading the grade and giving the water somewhere to go. A bioswale holds what a storm dumps. A cistern turns roof runoff into garden water. An aqueduct carries it where you want it.

Practical offerings
  • Drainage observations & readings — reading where water actually goes before changing anything
  • Water movement planning — contour-based redesign of how rain travels the property
  • Bioswales & rain gardens — planted depressions that slow, hold, and infiltrate
  • Rain capture systems — cisterns, sizing, plumbing, garden integration
  • Aqueducts & water features — hand-formed brass or stone water-movement infrastructure
  • Fountains — sculptural fountains designed as hydraulic + cultural objects
  • Runoff management — protecting downhill neighbors, downhill creeks, downhill aquifer
When to consider this

Standing water. Flooding. Erosion gullies. A French-drain quote that doesn't sit right. Or just before any major landscape investment — water reading sets the order of everything else.

§ II

Soil.

Good soil is what makes everything else hold up, and most Hill Country yards don't have it. Caliche fights the shovel, and a bag of synthetic fertilizer just papers over the problem. The fix is building the soil's own biology back — compost, mulch, and the right plants — so roots go deep enough to get a plant through August.

Practical offerings
  • Organic soil improvement — assessment, amendment, biology-led methods
  • Compost & mulch strategy — what to use where, sourcing, application timing
  • Soil biology support — compost teas, inoculants, fungal/bacterial balance
  • Organic fertility programs — nutrient cycling without synthetic inputs
  • Erosion repair — stabilization with native plants, hugelkultur, contour shaping
  • Caliche planting protocols — how to plant where a shovel breaks
When to consider this

Plants dying even though you water them. Ground too hard to dig. Bare caliche left after construction. Best to handle this before you spend on planting — otherwise the water bill goes up and the plants still struggle.

§ III

Habitat.

Mosquitoes, fire ants, and most pest pressure are usually a sign something else is off — standing water, dead soil, no predators to keep things in check. We handle pests with organic methods and by fixing the cause. A property with native plants, beneficial insects, living soil, and water that drains just doesn't get hit the way a depleted one does.

Practical offerings
  • Native planting — Edwards Plateau-adapted palette, sourced from regional propagators
  • Pollinator systems — nectar succession, host plants, year-round bloom
  • Beneficial insect support — predator habitat, food webs that regulate themselves
  • Organic mosquito management — standing-water elimination, bat & bird habitat, BTI dunks, larval-stage focus
  • Organic fire ant management — phorid fly habitat, beneficial-nematode treatments, mound-by-mound organic protocols
  • Wildlife corridor planning — connecting to neighbor properties, water access, structural diversity
  • Plant diversity strategy — biodiversity as resilience, not as decoration
When to consider this

Pest problems that keep coming back. No pollinators. Sterile-feeling property. Before resorting to spray services — the spray treats this week; the habitat fix treats every week after.

§ IV

Food.

A property can feed you, and it's worth setting up so it does. The vegetable garden is the easy start. The bigger payoff is the perennial layer — the Hill Country grows olives, pomegranates, figs, mesquite, persimmon, and prickly pear without much fuss. Chickens or quail fit almost any lot. Plan the edibles in from the beginning.

Practical offerings
  • Garden planning & build — raised beds, in-ground, hugelkultur, layout by sun + water
  • Edible landscapes — perennials integrated with ornamental + habitat planting
  • Orchards — Hill Country-adapted fruit + nut tree selection + planting
  • Herb gardens — culinary + medicinal + tea, sun + shade considered
  • Chicken / quail infrastructure planning — coops, runs, predator-proofing, regulatory check
  • Native edible integration — prickly pear, agarita, mesquite, persimmon, pecan
  • Small-scale food systems — closed-loop garden+compost+livestock at property scale
When to consider this

Want to grow food. Tired of feeding wildlife your tomatoes. Considering chickens. Want the property to make a real contribution to your kitchen.

§ V

Energy.

You don't have to go fully off-grid to stop depending on it for the small stuff. A solar pump can run the fountain. A small battery keeps the irrigation going through a storm. The garden makes food on sunlight you never get a bill for.

Practical offerings
  • Solar water feature support — solar pumps for fountains, recirculation systems
  • Pump power planning — sizing solar + battery for property irrigation + features
  • Off-grid readiness assessments — what would it take, what's the order of investment
  • Resilient infrastructure concepts — backup water, backup power, backup heat
  • Passive cooling strategies — canopy, breezeways, microclimate engineering
When to consider this

Rural property. Want a fountain without running power. Resilience after the storms that knock out grid for days. Considering solar for the right reasons.

§ VI

Place.

The useful parts of a property can also be the beautiful ones. An aqueduct that's worth looking at. A bioswale you'd sit next to. Stonework cut to last a couple hundred years. Hand-formed brass fountains. This is where the property stops being a yard and starts being a place you want to be.

Practical offerings
  • Shade strategy — canopy planning, structures, microclimate design
  • Gathering areas — outdoor rooms, fire features, seating in stone or built form
  • Stonework — dry-stack walls, paths, terraces, retaining work
  • Concrete ecological hardscape — artisan concrete pours, integrated drainage, structural beauty
  • Fountains — brass and stone fountain design and build, sculptural + hydraulic
  • Aqueducts — hand-formed water-conveyance infrastructure as art object
  • Sensory garden concepts — sound, scent, texture, color choreography across seasons
  • Cultural landscapes — ceremony spaces, ritual integration, intentional placemaking
When to consider this

Building a place worth being in. Hosting. Making a property feel like somewhere. Investment in beauty that outlives the design trend.

§ VII

Stewardship.

A property keeps changing after the build is done, so we stay on it. A seasonal walk reads what's shifted since last time. We coordinate the trades so the place stays under one set of eyes instead of five. A landscape is never really finished — we plan for the long haul.

Practical offerings
  • Seasonal property reviews — quarterly or seasonal walks with written readings
  • Vendor coordination — managing trades on your behalf, keeping the property coherent
  • Estate care — for multi-system properties, multiple buildings, multiple acres
  • Maintenance strategy — defining what gets done, when, by whom, to what standard
  • Long-term property evolution planning — the 10-year horizon, not the lawn-care contract
  • Partner referrals — the right tradespeople from the Exchange network
When to consider this

After a Noon build. For larger places with a lot going on. When you'd rather the property keep getting better than slowly fall apart. When you want one set of eyes you trust on all of it.

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This isn't a menu of one-off jobs. It's how we help you build a property you actually want to live with — one system at a time.

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