About this Landscape Designer role at Sanctuary

About Sanctuary
Sanctuary builds nature - led, wellness - centered communities that feel alive. Our first 135-acre residential community in the Texas Hill Country is designed with:
🌱 Non-toxic materials
💧 Clean water and filtration systems
⚡ EMF-conscious design
🌿 135 acres of preserved land and eco - sensitive planning
We are a global team (spread across 8 countries) of designers, architects, engineers, and dreamers building spaces that restore and inspire. For us, it’s not just where people live - it’s how they live.
Our vision is to bring Sanctuary to major cities around the world: healthy, sovereign communities that sit on the edges of every modern metropolis.
About the role
This is an extended contractor engagement (onsite), not a one-off cleanup job. We're looking for a partner who can work with us over the coming months and beyond, planning the land alongside us and bringing in crews to get it done. You can be an individual or a small firm. What matters is that you're hands-on, resourceful, and in this for the long haul with us. We're starting with roughly 150 acres and growing to around 300.
The core challenge (read this first)
Plenty of vendors offer "clean property" services: clearing, removal, cutting things down. That part is straightforward. The real challenge, and the heart of this project, is the planting side: sourcing and getting a large volume of trees and plants into the ground affordably. Buying everything outright would be enormously expensive, so we need someone creative about where to source trees in bulk and how to move them onsite economically. If that's your strength, you're exactly who we're looking for.
Phase 1 (starting now)
Clean up and refresh the existing greenery. The work itself is simple, but there's a lot of it. At the same time, you'll begin planning how we'll manage the land over the coming year: a wide variety of plants, trees, bushes, and flowers, and a cost-conscious sourcing strategy to support it.
Where it goes from there
Phase 1 grows into designing the whole property over time, an ongoing greenery and landscape program rather than a single project.
Water and springs
Water is part of this role too. We want to expand and enhance our springs, and the right partner can plan and steward this alongside the landscape work, so the land and water come together as one integrated vision.
What you'll do
Build a smart, cost-effective sourcing strategy for large volumes of trees, plants, and materials, and get them moved onsite economically. This is the priority.
Lead the Phase 1 cleanup of existing greenery, bringing in and managing crews to carry it out.
Design a phased, year-long planting and landscape plan across 150 to 300 acres.
Plan and steward the springs and water features as part of the overall vision for the land.
Grow with the project over the length of the engagement.
Who we're looking for
An individual or small firm who is hands-on, resourceful, and able to mobilize crews as needed. Above all, someone creative about sourcing: you know where to find trees and plants in bulk and how to get them into the ground without overspending.
You think in phases and budgets, you love the land, and ideally you have experience with water features, springs, or natural water systems. Cost-savviness matters, because we'll be doing this many times over.