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Guidance, Workshops,
Solutions for Your Sustainable Future
 
 

The Homestead Guru will provide the guidance and hands- on experience you need to create the sustainable lifestyle of your dreams.

Your journey begins with a half-hour free phone consultation. We offer hourly consulting and three-day intensive sessions. Each is an opportunity for you to ask the questions that are critical to your success. Consulting is provided with your personal situation in mind. Onsite consultations at your location are also available upon request. 

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Welcome! Your Sustainable Journey Starts Here

Make Your Homesteading Dream A Reality

Consulting Services

Wherever you currently are in your homesteading journey, if you want to live in peace and harmony within yourself and with your loved ones, on a beautiful property, feeling safe, comfortable, resilient, and grounded in a deep connection to your land, The Homestead Guru can help get you there, supporting you in meeting each challenge along the way with confidence.

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Trip Overholt is a bona fide trailblazer in the field of sustainable living. Both a residential and commercial contractor, he has the knowledge and expertise to address your concerns and answer your questions. His Three-day Intensives are hands-on, customized to your goals, and located at his homestead in Snow Camp, North Carolina.

 

Areas of expertise include but are not limited to: Land Acquisition (Quality Analysis); Zoning and Permitting; Contractor Hiring and Management; Owner Builder Construction Support; Amenities; Outbuildings; Relationship Considerations; Power and Resiliency Training; Equipment/Tools and Operating Requirements; The Homestead Garden; and Spiritual Insight. 

Consulting Plan Options:

Phone & Video

Free Half-hour Consulting

Tell Trip about yourself and your situation.

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Hourly Consulting

Any topic of interest to you. Cost: $100. per hour.

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Three Day Intensives

One Year Plan

Take a deep dive into manifesting the homestead of your dreams. We will create your master plan together, replete with action steps, process, amenities, cost, and take time-outs for hands-on examples of what you will be creating. We will cover the big picture to the nitty gritty. The cost of the three-day intensive is $2,500. You may bring a partner or a friend. 

 

You will stay in a comfortable cottage beside the natural pool. Meals will be sourced from Whole Foods at your direction.  In the evenings, we will socialize by the pool or with a fire. You will have access to trails, a pool, a pond, garden, badminton court, and hot tub. Transportation to and from the airport is provided at an additional $150. Internet is available through a Verizon hotspot at 20 megs speeds - sufficient to stream video. Trip will be available to you for follow-up calls as you proceed with your process.

Success Stories

I have relied on Trip Overholt’s design/build services for years. He understands how to create spaces from the soil to completed construction.  Trip has supervised septic projects, well water projects, pond creating projects, and road grading projects for me over time. He’s also built foundations, and additions, whole buildings, and conducted major renovations for me.  Together Trip and I have done major “re-development projects.”  With Trip I have created masterpieces.  He’s good at communicating, and has offered me many “corrective lens” for some of my construction ideas. Trip is part optometrist, part therapist, part general contractor, part builder.  It’s helpful to have Trip’s visionary genius on hand.  He can frame, tile, plumb, wire, pour concrete, change the grade, and make just about any project come to fruition.
Before engaging Trip’s services, I paid a vast amount on “tuition.” I did things incorrectly, I created projects that were poorly built i
ncluding some projects that were abandoned entirely. Money spent on Trip’s ideas has been money well spent.  I cannot endorse him and his work highly enough.” 

Lyle Estille

Begin your journey          to realize your 
Homesteading Dream!

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