Plans communities and landowners actually adopted.
Twelve years of published county plans, farm-hub studies, and regional watershed and food-system work across the Midwest and Northeast.
Published plans and projects
A short selection of recent published engagements.
McHenry County Comprehensive Plan
A county-wide plan connecting land use, agriculture, water, and food-system goals across northern Illinois.
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Jasper County, Iowa Comprehensive Plan
Long-horizon county comprehensive plan integrating soil, watershed health, and working-lands strategy.
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Hudson Valley Farm Hub
Whole-system planning for a regional food hub model now studied across the Northeast.
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Every plan is a written manual the client actually uses.
A county plan or a food-hub study is only useful if the people who commissioned it can hand it to a lender, a partner, a planning commission, or the next generation and have them act on it.
Every project starts with the 143-question diagnostic and ends with a written PDF plan, an executive summary, and a working meeting with the decision-makers.
- Independent advisory across every engagement
- Written milestones and a set delivery schedule
- Optional implementation support after the plan lands
- Publicly adopted plans where the client is a public body
Four practice areas, working together
Selected projects usually combine two or three practice areas in one deliverable.
Farm Planning & Strategy
Whole-system, business, succession, and food-system plans for working farms and family land holdings.
- Whole-system farm planning
- Succession & business planning
- Food-system planning
Regenerative Agriculture
Soil-first consulting on regenerative practices, organic transitions, agroforestry, and cover-cropping.
- Regenerative consulting
- Organic transition planning
- Agroforestry & soil health
Environmental Assessments
Site, watershed, and ecological assessments for landowners, land trusts, and municipalities.
- Environmental site assessments
- Watershed management planning
- Ecological assessment
Farm Lease Consulting
Lease design and review for owners and operators, from crop-share and conservation leases through solar.
- Agricultural lease advisory
- Conservation & succession leases
- Crop-share, flex rent, solar leases
The six-part planning process
The same framework, scoped from a single property to a multi-county plan.
Guiding Principles
The decision-makers' principles vetted and agreed up front.
Regional Context
History, settlement, water, community, regional economy.
Current Conditions
Inventory of soils, easements, fertility, and lay of the land.
Opportunities & Constraints
Infrastructure, regulation, legal requirements.
Recommendations
Resilience-first adjustments grounded in real farm economics.
Revenue Generators
Income-producing recommendations weighed against future burden.
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