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.
In order to keep sharing all that we are learning in the world of Syntropic Farming our team has recently participated in two webinars exploring the topics. Below you will find, first, a webinar with the team at Water Stories that is a general introduction to the topic and second a webinar with Javan Bernakevitch of Regenerative Living. This webinar explores a case study and the design process in Syntropic Farming. We hope these resources will inspire you to keep planting!
Over the last few years of studying, designing and installing syntropic agroforestry systems, I have picked up a few small tips and tricks. Some of these are very practical and specific to species or management, others are based around the design concepts and principles. Regardless, I hope they provide some insights so that your work might move forward in succession.
Scott Gallant, one of the co-founders of Porvenir Design, will be collaborating with Javan Bernakevitch of Regenerative Living Online in the creation of a Syntropic Farming Primer Course.
I’m not interested in defending permaculture, nor defining it; not in an encompassing way at least. It is certainly not a silver bullet and it certainly has its flaws. It will not save the world.
What I am sharing here is why I believe permaculture and specifically permaculture education is useful in this complicated world. I am writing this article to move you closer to action, to change, to crossing some threshold where you trust your hands and their impact.
En Porvenir Design estamos comprometidos a apoyar a la comunidad de permacultura costarricense, y como parte de esta iniciativa, queremos ofrecer un premio de $1000 con junto con AVER y tres premios de $500 (USD) cada uno para proyectos activos de permacultura ubicados en Costa Rica.
As we look to find niches and stack functions in our tropical permaculture homesteads, one often overlooked group of plants include the edible flowers. With a focus on Costa Rica, this blog, authored primarily by Katie Browning, a certified herbalist, explores the many common and uncommon edible flowers available to us in the tropics. Most of these plants fit comfortably within the principles of permaculture and they can be described by the following set of patterns:
