Workshops + Tours
Erika Nolan is a Licensed Landscape Horticulturist who built a thriving urban homestead in New Orleans and successfully ran her organic landscaping company, Instar, for eight years. Today, she consults with clients across the globe, sharing her expertise in sustainable living and regenerative design. Discover how Erika brought her dream homestead to life on 5 acres—join a workshop or book a personalized Homestead Tour to learn more!
Curious about holistic homesteading in action?
Take a closer look at a thriving Permaculture-designed homestead—where organic food is grown with intention and animals are raised naturally, in harmony with the land.
What others say about Erika!
“After a virtual consultation with Erika Nolan, I was SO inspired to get out in the yard and get my hands dirty. After years of trying to get my yard to resemble a garden, she gave me HOPE. On the call, she answered all of my questions with deep and understandable information. She even broke every question I had down into a sheet of “observations” and “resolutions” with links to sites and products. Now, instead of being overwhelmed, it seems so DOABLE! Thank you, Erika Nolan! I will be continuing to work with her to beautify my space into a productive paradise!”
— Kayla - Tampa, FL
“I finally feel like I can actually take on this project and have my dream vegetable garden. It’s so difficult to find someone in Cairo that gets the vision I’m going for and the fact that Erika was able to help me from across the world just means more than you can imagine. Yay technology! Yay Instar!
Not only that, but I found the most helpful aspect of it was Erika’s super simple method of breaking it down step by step! It’s so difficult to know where to start, especially with such a blank slate, and honestly because of Erika I actually feel like the idea has turned into a reality over the course of our hour-long discussion.” - Alicia, Oregon
“I loved Erika’s preparedness for the consultation, even though I totally got that it was a foreign country but I felt like she wasn’t fazed one bit. And the conversation was so smooth that it felt like I was talking to a (really knowledgable) friend!”
— Sarah, Cairo, Egypt