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STEP 03 · DESIGN

From project picture to defensible playbook.



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Three steps to your ultimate project playbook.

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Design Scoping

2

Design Time

3

Design Review

Ten categories you can design for.

The fertility and correction the ground needs, built from what your tests show rather than what a standard program assumes.

Designs can include liquid and granular fertility, lime and pH correction, calcium and magnesium corrections, micronutrient packages, carbon inputs, foliar programs, soil amendments and conditioners, salt and sodium management, and amendment programs matched to the project's baseline.

The living side of the soil, built to drive the biological work that carbon outcomes depend on.

Designs can include microbial inoculants, compost and compost extracts, brewed biological teas, mycorrhizal and root-zone inoculants, biological soil primers, carbon and food sources for biology, and organic matter integration.

Everything fixed in place across the project area.

Designs can include water systems and piping, filtration and treatment systems, wells and pump systems, irrigation infrastructure, drainage and water control, ponds and impoundments, troughs and watering points, fencing and cross-fencing, working facilities, sampling access and infrastructure, roads and access, buildings and outbuildings, building materials, and lighting.

The mobile side: what you run, pull, and operate.

Designs can include tractors and prime movers, roller crimpers and termination equipment, no-till and low-disturbance seed drills and planters, sprayers and applicators, spreaders, subsoilers and low-disturbance ground tools, sampling and field equipment, ATVs and UTVs, and the tools and attachments that run with them. Where regenerative equipment does not exist for what the project needs, we can design and build it.

What goes in the ground, matched to what the ground can carry and what the project counts on.

Designs can include cover crop mixes, forage and pasture species, native and restoration species, deep-rooted and carbon-building species, small grains, legumes and nitrogen-fixing species, pollinator and habitat plantings, seed treatments and inoculants, and multi-species blends built for the project's soil types.

Grazing as part of the carbon system rather than a load on it.

Designs can include stocking rates and carrying capacity, managed and adaptive grazing systems, rotation and movement planning, paddock layout, water access and distribution, mineral and supplement programs, and grazing integrated with the project's practices.

The control side: what you apply to keep pressure off the stand.

Designs can include herbicide programs, invasive and weed control, insecticide programs, fungicide programs, and resistance management across the program.

The work that goes beyond the standard nine.

Designs can include work at scale (large project areas, aggregated acreage, multi-operator projects), specialized requirements (protocol, registry, or buyer-driven specs), and problems that need research and invention rather than selection: custom builds, one-off solutions, and work where nothing off the shelf fits the project.

What your team needs to know to run what we build.

Designs can include operator and crew training materials, reference guides for the program we built, practice and protocol reference tools, seasonal and calendar-based reference tools, visual and step-by-step documentation, and self-directed learning packages for projects that run without us on site.

The program behind the project.

Designs can include operating plans and calendars, standard operating procedures, roles and responsibility structure, team training and development, recordkeeping and documentation systems, data and practice tracking, and integration of the whole build into how the project already runs.

Choose How We Design


 Every module can be designed in one of three ways:

A list. What to buy, what to use, what to run, chosen for your project. You take it from there.

This is for the project that has the equipment, the hands, and the know-how, and just needs to stop guessing.

The build, engineered for our crew to deploy for you.

Products, rates, placement, sequencing, and timing, designed for your ground and written for our team and our subcontractors to put in. This is the build we work from in the deploy stage.

The build, engineered to leave our hands.

The same build, written to stand entirely on its own so you can deploy it however you choose: your own crew, your own contractors, or yourself. 

What Comes After

From plan to action.

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