"The name for our proper connection to the earth is ‘good work,’ for good work involves much giving of honor."
- Wendell Berry
Integrated Land Services
Grading & Excavating
Forestry Mulching
Landscaping & Stone
Tree Services & Forestry
Land Planning & Design
Welcome to a New Way of Thinking About Your Land
Our mission is to present the most thoughtful, skilled and professional land services available anywhere. In addition to our unmatched field work and “heavy lifting,” we provide complete land planning for residential and small commercial clients in our area.
We complete all of our own projects, operating our own full fleet of traditional and specialized heavy equipment. Our unique stewardship philosophy, Integrated Land Management, emphasizes a deep commitment to client education, total project management, and absolute accountability.
V&V strives to forge solutions that marry the ambitions and budgets of our clients with sound environmental practice and design. We believe the heart of good value is the integration of progressive and traditional management strategies. When planning and execution are effectively consolidated there is less room for error: communication, scheduling, and quality gaps are closed. That means our clients spend less money and save time.
Located in Asheville, NC, V&V is a service and consulting company devoted to thoughtful restoration and development solutions for our surrounding mountains and rolling hills (NC, SC, TN). We’re proud to be among the nation’s most experienced and respected practitioners of forestry mulching and permaculture-based land restoration. We are committed to leaving the earth a better place, one job at a time.
A Deep Dive Into Integrated Land Management
Integrated land management (ILM) is a unique stewardship-based approach to land management, development, and restoration. It is the lens through which we evaluate, plan, and execute our projects. ILM inverts the paradigm that isolates a particular land owner’s goal as the complete focal point of a project. Experience has taught us that this approach leads to oversights, poor “hand-offs,” degradation, and higher costs. At V&V we seek to focus attention on the process, and, by extension, on entire properties and ecosystems. In this way, landowners work from the outside in. Our projects evolve in logical ways supported by solid stewardship, thorough planning, precision, and accountability. Through strict adherence to four simple principles, Integrated Land Management seeks to ensure project success.
Your Land Comes First
This is the foundational principle of Integrated Land Management and its most important idea. “Your land comes first” means we take the time to thoroughly explore and evaluate our clients’ properties, their limitations and attributes, before we begin work. A fundamental comprehension of what can, or should, be done on a given piece of property is the tenet upon which all others are built.The common practice of forcing land to conform to presupposed desires usually yields disastrous results. Most of the costly mitigation projects we are called to complete are the result of failing to consider the land first: driveways on inappropriate grades or soils, eroding or incomplete site work, collapsing walls, spreading invasive vegetation, etc. Mistakes can be brutally expensive to fix and generally contribute to the degradation of our delicate mountain ecology.
Education
Education is where it all begins. V&V is a provider with a passion for the pursuit of higher standards in the field of land management. We want our clients’ participation and their difficult questions. We want passionate landowners and dedicated stewards. The more our landowners know about their individual properties; the soils, plants, timber, hydrology, habitats, and history, the more they can help us fashion wise strategies that yield positive long-term results. We are
