This case study outlines my comprehensive permaculture plan for a riverside property close to Coimbra, in Portugal. The design aims to regenerate degraded areas, enhance food security, diversify land use, and create a resilient, ecologically rich landscape that supports both productive agriculture and long-term environmental stewardship. The project site features gently sloping terrain running downContinue reading “Portugal Permaculture Design”
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Utah Eco Resort Design
Another design to show you from my work in summer 2025 is this design for an eco-friendly, sustainable and low-impact resort. This is a planned resort for a semi-arid location in Utah, well-placed for guests looking to experience what this state’s amazing National and state parks have to offer. Utah’s varied landscapes are fascinating forContinue reading “Utah Eco Resort Design”
Off-grid Irish Homestead Design
It has been a while since I have added new designs to this website – but it has been a busy summer, and autumn so far has kept me very busy too – both in work and on my own property. But now that our bumper apple harvest processing period is coming to an end,Continue reading “Off-grid Irish Homestead Design”
Maine Permaculture Design: Sustainable Food Production & Ecosystem Restoration
This is my design for a property of approximately 2 – 2.5 acres in Maine, USDA zone 5a. Like many of my designs, the starting point for this project was the desire of the property owners to increase the amount of food that they grow for themselves and their neighbours. They were also excited toContinue reading “Maine Permaculture Design: Sustainable Food Production & Ecosystem Restoration”
Iowa Permaculture Design – Food Production & Restoration
This plan for a property in Iowa aims to provide relatively low-maintenance but highly productive food producing habitat for humans, and wildlife, including deer as an additional wild food source. It aims to boost biodiversity and improve the health of natural ecosystems on the site. The site is within an ecoregion where a mosaic ofContinue reading “Iowa Permaculture Design – Food Production & Restoration”
Regenerating Native Oak Woodland: Holistic Permaculture Design
Here you can see my concept design for a site of approximately 2.5 acres in the California interior chaparral and woodlands ecoregion. It is located within an area where blue oak woodland predominates but the site itself has been degraded by human activity and largely denuded of its native vegetation cover. The client’s primary goalContinue reading “Regenerating Native Oak Woodland: Holistic Permaculture Design”
Rewilding or Ungardening in Permaculture Design
When any permaculture designer is working on a project, they will typically be working within the relatively solid framework of the permaculture ethics and permaculture design principles. But permaculture as a design framework it not rigid. It leaves the space that is needed for nature, for people, and for changes over time as a systemContinue reading “Rewilding or Ungardening in Permaculture Design”
Case Study: Montana Permaculture Design
Montana is a varied state with diverse eco-regions, incorporating parts of the Rockies, of course, as well as some of the Wyoming Basin and portions of the Northern Great Plains. This design is for a client based towards the south-west of the state, in a mesic montane area where small fragments of stable, climax AspenContinue reading “Case Study: Montana Permaculture Design”
Case Study: Illinois Permaculture Design
This is the preliminary permaculture concept plan for a farmstead in Illinois. the design aims to synthesise the ideas of the client with the demands of the site and to allow them to make the most of the property – recently purchased – that has been somewhat neglected in recent years. The client, a hobby farmerContinue reading “Case Study: Illinois Permaculture Design”
Case Study: Cambodian Project
This month has been a little different to many for me because rather than working on a number of smaller designs, I have predominantly been working on the next stage of the large project in Cambodia which I shared before. Above, you can see a portion of the planting plans for the North Valley areasContinue reading “Case Study: Cambodian Project”
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