Justin Hitt, Permaculture Design Consultant

As a Permaculture Design Consultant, Justin Hitt helps affluent clients start legacy homesteads or small farms. He helps you explore your lifestyle passions while growing or establishing a farm services business.

It’s about breaking even while better living with nature, rather than constantly fighting it. Alongside decades of professional experience with business development and risk management, Justin Hitt has a deep respect for nature.

He has over two decades of experience with organic gardening, erosion control, and land management. This experience includes supporting park services, non-profits, private estates, and his own ecological investments.

Working with teams of experts, including conservation biologists, equipment operators, and expert services professionals, Justin Hitt leads land projects beyond hobby farming. You benefit from years of leadership, not one-size-fits-all.

Offering design services, land management, and business development for aspirational farm businesses who want to be more grounded in ecological principles.

For those who have inherited or are transitioning family farms, he offers business process optimization, conservation management, and business development strategy.

A Design Approach You Won’t Find With Influencers And Gurus

Justin Hitt uniquely advises on both systems design and the economics of owning a small farm or homestead. Leveraging decades of entrepreneurship, corporate experience, and work with real estate developers. Rather than doing everything himself, he leverages community.

You also get insights for curating hunting land, family retreats, and eco-tourism opportunities. Helping your investment in nature to yield returns far beyond capital. Like a good CEO, he doesn’t profess to know everything but knows whom to turn to to create measurable results.

It’s the people you meet and the books you read that shape life. It’s knowing how to find the right individuals for the job, rather than one person who claims to be able to do everything. Just like self-sufficiency is an illusion, so is the solo operator who does everything themselves.

You might have a homesteading dream, yet without family and community, it becomes very difficult. Beyond a select few clients, Justin Hitt delivers resources focusing on sustainable community development and education through permaculture methods.

Explore his podcast Prosperity Homestead, as well as many courses and advisory programs.

Who Should Contact Justin Hitt as a Permaculture Design Consultant

Justin Hitt works with a variety of individuals, families, and organizations who want more sustainable systems. Clients enjoy practical implementation, transparency, and building on ecological foundations.

  • Landowners with 5 to 15 acres who want to establish a homestead oasis, perhaps near a City center to live more holistically while still having access to social and professional demands.
  • Family offices and high-net-worth individuals who want to engage in conservation as a tax strategy, public relations, and lifestyle enhancement, and who want practical insights for measurable results.
  • Family farms who want to shift from commodity agriculture to biologically diverse income streams, including eco-tourism, upmarket value-added goods, market garden experiences, or conservation.
  • Older farmers who want to keep the legacy going beyond their children, who want to put back together the family farm, or establish a living legacy starting with what you’ve built.
  • Owners of timber land seeking alternative and passive income strategies to bridge the 30 to 40 year cycles, while maintaining truth in conservation, ecology, and wildlife quality.
  • Influencers who want the real life of their small farm or homesteading experience to exceed what they are projecting in media. To improve the processes of business while leveling up lifestyle without going broke.
  • Families who want resilience against natural disasters, civil unrest, or getaway weekends. A property that serves all that life might throw your way. And that is defensible for so many risks we don’t expect.
  • Practical thinkers who want earth care, yet understand that without at least breaking even, most retreats, homesteads, or lifestyle dreams are shattered by the economic realities of rising costs.
  • Families that own a combined 150 to 1,000 acres of land, seeking strategies to enhance net worth, lower estate taxes, and improve overall cash flow without harming the environment or compromising ethics.
  • Community leaders and non-profits who want to leverage the power of community gardens for outreach, membership attraction, grant programs, and education. Whether starting or operating.
  • Entrepreneurs in eco-tourism, farm experiences, natural systems therapeutics, licensed growing of hemp or other herbal medicine who want more impact.
  • Expert service providers who make possible hunting land, erosion control, and natural building who want more projects that demonstrate the value of their approach.
  • Farmers supply and marketing cooperatives who want to better serve members, including education and practical implementation. Extension offices, foundations, and other groups who want better grant compliance.

To share details about your project, contact Justin Hitt via this publication. He wants to hear about your goals, challenges to overcome, and has many resources to help get you started.

Education and Qualification: A Higher Standard of Service

Because Justin Hitt works with a broad range of experts, contractors, and agencies. You get a more complete solution that supplements his own education and qualifications. Here’s some of what you get in permaculture design services:

  • After studying permaculture design with materials from Bill Mollison, Sepp Holzer, and David Holmgren, Justin Hitt achieved his Permaculture Design Certification with Geoff Lawton in 2015. This exploration started in 1996.
  • College-level courses on animal behavior, environmental design, systems thinking, and sociology expanded his understanding of how living creatures interact.
  • Study of historical homestead design, including visiting Civilian Conservation Corps projects, hundreds of state parks, and historical habitations. Years exploring the streets of Colonial Williamsburg and estates like Monticello and Biltmore.
  • Hundreds of environmental, erosion control, historic restoration, and trail building projects with the National Park Service and state agencies. Including on the C&O Canal and Fort Lincoln at Point Lookout State Park.
  • Enrolled as a Virginia Master Naturalist, completing the 40-hour program as well as hundreds of continuing education programs. Supporting the maintenance of pollinator gardens, public education, and wildlife management.
  • Helping clients create millions in new business growth and over a billion dollars in value over the last three decades as a consultant to small businesses and Fortune 100 clients.
  • Justin Hitt has developed individual land projects with budgets ranging from $20,000 to more than a quarter million, for both short- and long-term durations. He tests with his own money and land to build experience.
  • Primary focus is economic development through the application of ecologically sound principles. Ways that will improve communities, economy, and individual social dynamics. He goes beyond what to plant to living systems.
  • For more consistent results, Justin Hitt starts with written plans to capture your requirements and journal your progress. Rather than winging it, you get consistent management.

Many design consultants don’t have practical business and project management experience. That’s okay when they function in the right environment, but not appropriate when scaling into acres or complex land projects. Justin Hitt is available to coach these individuals as they grow their service offerings.

Functional Solutions With Justin Hitt’s Approach to Permaculture Design

The size of your project is not as important as the outcomes you desire and the impact. After years of corporate experience, Justin Hitt now teaches philosophies such as intentional thrift, community development, and resilience.

Not every project has been a success. He has invested in community development and an economic land design, only to be threatened with a Grand Jury Investigation to declare his home a public nuisance. At the same time, threatened with fines and lawsuits by the city.

Meanwhile, he still completed sewer line replacements, a retaining wall replacement, and earthworks across three properties. The team that did that job did several similar projects across the region without the political distress.

Tenants tore up a rental property intended as an example of eco-housing, nearly destroying years of progress. The tenants were not allowed to renew, then after thousands of dollars in remediation, the project was significantly scaled back.

Not everyone understands how low-energy and environmentally friendly living works. Future tenants more responsibly enjoyed whole-home water filtration, high-efficiency heating and cooling, and ecological elements of home design.

Here are the core tenets of Justin Hitt’s approach to design work:

  • Resilience and long-term food security. Design is necessary so communities can become better able to grow food, withstand disruptions, and sustain themselves over time.
  • Communities strengthen through sustainable commerce and development. Permaculture isn’t treated only as gardening; it’s used to support local economic development and community-building activities.
  • Education as the primary outcome (teaching through real systems.) People learn permaculture skills and practices by participating in demonstration projects, improving adoption, skill-building, and long-term continuity.
  • Permaculture used for disaster recovery and prevention. Better preparation and ability to recover after shocks by designing landscapes, buildings, and support infrastructure to be healthier as well as robust.
  • Urban-scale demonstrations (transferred to rural estates.) Go to where the people are, showing that permaculture and regenerative agriculture can work outside rural contexts. Making the education more accessible.
  • Practical, landscape-based implementation (not just concepts.) It is better to do real projects, like demonstration centers, community gardens, and nonprofit farms, to expose more people to practical methods.

Justin Hitt has deliberately built on historical principles of long-term stable communities, then applies permaculture principles of earth care, people care, and return of surplus. Even in his own practical implementation over the years, he has explored application over abstract concepts.

Increasing the function and utility value of your property while enhancing environmental aspects is his number one priority. If this aligns with your intention or approach, then schedule your consultation to discuss your project today.

When the typical commercial farm costs $500,000 to more than $1,000,000 to start, this is a small investment to develop a design plan rather than risking winging it. To further explore Justin Hitt’s approach, subscribe to the newsletter or listen to the podcasts at no cost or obligation.

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