Contact info / Hourly rates below
I don't do aesthetic landscaping, but if you are local to Vashon Island and would like to contribute to the health of island forests, please reach out. My rates are a sliding scale, starting at $75/hr plus expenses given herbicide licensing and insurance are expensive. Minimum 4 hours per trip. To fill the minimum, partner with a neighbor who also needs work done. Low-carbon transport is part of my service, so time on the road is billed at $35/hr. My rates finance recovery time from hard work necessary at my experienced age, and it pays for my public outreach efforts (seedrain.org). However, my mission is to control invasive seed sources as widely as possible on Vashon, so I'll conduct lance-injection-8-hour days on a sliding scale, $65/hr or $55/hr in my slow times, always plus expenses and sales tax. Injection shells cost 35 cents each, so a modest infestation on 5 acres might cost $150 in shells, usually averaging less than $200 per acre for injection sweeps targeting fruiting seed sources. This means high-priority invasive trees (holly, hawthorn, laurel, bird cherry...) and fruiting ivy vines on trees. "Detail" restoration targeting smaller invasives is more expensive, but I can coach you how to do this yourself.
If you can afford to help neighbors control their seed sources that reinfest your restoration efforts, I am selling yard signs (see below) for a suggested $500 "donation" as part of a cost-share outreach effort for neighbors who have severe infestations but can't afford or can't do the work themselves. With 50% cost-share required, $1000 is enough to significantly reduce "seed rain" on 5 acres. I'll let you know where your donation was put to good use. If you need a tax-deduction, donate to your local land trust and earmark it for "invasive seed rain reductions." Vashon's forests thank you!
If you can afford to help neighbors control their seed sources that reinfest your restoration efforts, I am selling yard signs (see below) for a suggested $500 "donation" as part of a cost-share outreach effort for neighbors who have severe infestations but can't afford or can't do the work themselves. With 50% cost-share required, $1000 is enough to significantly reduce "seed rain" on 5 acres. I'll let you know where your donation was put to good use. If you need a tax-deduction, donate to your local land trust and earmark it for "invasive seed rain reductions." Vashon's forests thank you!
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PHONE |
206.650.9807
Text if I miss your email |
ADDRESS |
Garden Cycles LLC (mailing)
P.O. Box 46519 Seattle, WA 98146 I live in Ellisport, Vashon, so my service area is Vashon and Maury Islands, WA |
Yard signs are 27" wide x 18" tall
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Click photo to read the yard signs
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