Blogspot - Interia Dezain

Last summer I was contacted by Teresa Silva and Paulo Matos who having purchased 28 ha (70 acres) of land in Beja, Portugal are looking towards establishing a regenerative enterprise/homestead on the property. Tojiera Final Concept Design -  Illustration by   georgipavlov.net    The brief was to analyse the site and identify the potential of the land for future regenerative development. As always it was a pleasure to be working with Georgi Pavlov - www.georgipavlov.net  on this project. Property Location in South Portugal  During this blog I'll go through our broad design process and then present the design concept we came up with for this site. Where to Start?   The process starts with a conversation with Teresa and Paulo to gain an understanding of their circumstances and to establish their broad objectives. This is followed up with a questionnaire for them to complete in their own time in order to gather more details about the land and their lifesty...

Encouraged by high yields and high levels of biodiversity that we have been recording in our  home gardens  we have extended our research to look at how we can provide nutritious affordable food whilst enhancing biodiversity in polyculture market gardens. We are delighted to be offering a unique opportunity to take part in this study. Would you like to join us? What are we doing ? We are undertaking a multi year study of market gardening growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nut polycultures. The study aims to compare our polyculture plots with conventional organic plots, record levels of biodiversity in the gardens and look at set up and running costs (in terms of finances and time) and outputs in terms of produce and income. Diversity of high quality biologically produced food from our polyculture gardens  The approach we take to market gardening goes way beyond "organic". We design biological systems that rely on the native ecology to function as opposed to...

This spring I was asked to develop a conceptual design for Catherine Zanev and Adjmal Dulloo for a fantastic piece of land on the north side of the Balkan mountains. My goal was to analyse the site and identify the potential of the land for future regenerative development. I've been working with Catherine and Adjmal since 2013 on various sites across Bulgaria, and last year we completed the design of a 5 ha polyculture orchard  (Suhi Dol)  that is now coming to life with the help of project manager Petar Mateev and the team. Suhi Dol - Illustration of the  design at maturity - the s ilvopasture stage. image by  www.georgipavlov.net   Suhi Dol - Todorovo - Photos taken of the first tree  plantings from this spring - t he s ilvoarable stage.  Catherine and Adjmal, along with other pioneer land owners within the regenerative movement, are working towards taking land management to the next level, producing nutritious affordable food, dignified jobs and enh...