The everyday work of land,
on the water’s terms.
Design, development,
stewardship, sales
We list and sell it, manage it for the people who own it, redraw sites that are not working, and design landscapes built around water rather than against it.
On this coast the water decides what is possible. Reading it is the first task on every job, long before anything is drawn.
At full stretch we develop an entire agrihood, a neighborhood with a working farm at its center. That is the top of what we do, not the whole of it. Most weeks the work is a lease to renew, a boundary to walk, a drainage problem to solve, a parcel to bring to market.
The practice
Four things we do most weeks.
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Brokerage
Listing and selling land, farms, coastal parcels and homes, and finding parcels for buyers who know roughly what they want and not yet where it is. Buying and selling
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Land management
Looking after ground for owners who do not live on it: leases, operators, boundaries, roads, burning and mowing schedules, easement compliance, and a written report you can actually read. Land management
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Redevelopment
Sites that stalled or were drawn badly the first time. Failed subdivisions, tired farmsteads, infill parcels, and the entitlement work to make them something else. Redevelopment
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Environmental landscape design
Planting and grading that works with the water table, the soil and the existing canopy. Living shorelines, stormwater that behaves like landscape, buffers, and gardens that feed people. Landscape design
Living with water
Coastal ground, read before it is drawn.
Marsh, flood maps, king tides and a shoreline that moves. On Lowcountry ground the water decides what is possible, and reading it is the first task on any job, whether the parcel is being sold, managed, replanted or built on.
At full stretch, a whole neighborhood.
When a piece of land and a client will carry it, we build an agrihood: a neighborhood designed around a working farm, where the homes pay for the farm the way other developments pay for a golf course. Planners call the model Development-Supported Agriculture.
It is the fullest expression of everything on this page, and it is the rarest thing we do. It asks for the right ground, patient money and a client who wants a place rather than a yield.
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all.”
Tell us about the land.
A parcel you are thinking of buying or selling, ground you already own and are tired of worrying about, or a site that is not working. Tell us what it is and what you want from it.