Porvenir Design is a living project. Our business breathes and grows, continually shaped and honed by our team’s evolving skillset and varied interests. Since its inception nearly a decade ago, Porvenir Design has worked to establish and build a business focused on land design and stewardship that also allows its team members to create the lifestyle they want. We’ve hit many goals over the years for lots of different reasons, and the most important element of our success has been our commitment to supporting our team members' goals. Over the last several years, our team has grown, our interests and passions have become more nuanced, and our skillsets have been upgraded. We know what we love, we love what we do, and we have gotten better at it.
As we know from our base in permaculture design practices, transition zones are where the most action is. In ecology, we refer to these zones of overlap, or transition, as Ecotones. Where lakes lap against land or salt water blends with fresh water; where air melds into water or forest roots dip into rivers; where plains rub against mountains: these are the areas where interactions are more frequent and more powerful. The edge is where you want to be if you want to get involved with these energetic exchanges.
In 2024, our team came to the conclusion that we were in a transition period. We leveraged our connections with friends, colleagues, and mentors to try to understand how to best move ahead; transitions can be challenging to take on alone. In the end, we looked back on the essence of what Porvenir Design is to understand how to best manage the energy we were finding in our transition. We are a team of professionals that wants to have it all. We want to make positive change; we want to learn and also inspire; we want to make a living doing what we love; we want to work with driven and passionate people; we want to do it without sacrificing our ethics, happiness, or personal lifestyles.
What has emerged from our team’s transition process is subtle at surface level: a new brand look, an updated website, fresh colors and fonts on our deliverables. We still offer what we always have to our clients: professionalism, transparent and honest feedback, confidence in our skill set. Behind these changes, though, our team is adding personal, authentic touches to what we offer, improving what we provide to our clients and projects. Along with visual changes to Porvenir Design’s outward facing look, we’ve accompanied our evolution with new energy. We are excited about taking on more bigger picture planning work and we work with confidence around decision making regarding higher level design elements such as infrastructure and context-specific project chronologies. We focus heavily on water management as the leading design factor and influence in any project and are comfortable modeling projects on top of resilient water design. We are better and more practiced in the technicalities of homesteading and community planning in the tropics.
When we add our passions and practical skillsets to our business base of pragmatic and honest decision making, we feel that we find ourselves in a unique position to help clients. We are a Swiss army knife of planning and design; we are skilled enough to train and coach workers, and nuanced enough to suggest changes to architectural and engineering plans. We are bold enough to know where to push the boundaries, and experienced enough to know what is practical and functional over the long term. We know where and how to help clients make the best decisions that will give them success, in whatever form suits the context. Above all, we’re equipped to be useful and move projects ahead.
In the months ahead we’ll be teaching, traveling, learning, and guiding projects of all types. Our work and lives are dynamic and push us to stay on the edge and keep our tools sharp. Our team is focused on what we have always loved, design that makes sense, and we’re ready to apply our experience to the next big project, yours.
Upcoming Events and WorkshopsIn the coming months, our team has put together serval opportunities to get involved in meet ups and more formalized courses. Our meet ups are designed to be collaborative and casual, and are a chance to learn about different projects, meet other folks interested in permaculture and regenerative work, exchange seeds, and more.
The courses and workshops listed below range in length and content and offer a chance to take a deep dive into the given subject material. Please follow the links to find out more, and reach out to us or course organizers to sign up. Our courses tend to fill up quickly, so don’t delay!
September 29- October 12
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Introduction to Syntropic Farming
October 3-5
Tereny, Hungary
Sacred Plants of the Mediterranean
September 23- 27
Ostuni, Italy
