Large Scale Permaculture Design Projects
Our large scale permaculture and regenerative landscape projects are designed to be beautiful, functional, and sustainable over time. We use technical features such as the buildings themselves, water elements, composting systems, functional plantings, native species, food forests and agroforestry to regenerate the entire environment.
Prodigal Farms – Colorado, USA
Architects of Life worked on this 12 acres farm in Colorado to plan its ecosystem restoration and food growing plan. In this dry, windy landscape the first purpose is to mitigate the elements by creating windbreaks, passive water features and niches where life can develop. It is stunning how the need of creating these protective layers comes first before making any food production effort. During the project, the clients are taken to the surrounding farms in order to connect and interact with the local environment, slowly being introduced to the regenerative world of permaculture.
Designed by: Eléonore Todini
Private Castle – South of France
This 45 hectares private castle in the south of France, mediterranean climate, asked Architects of Life to make a land assessment including a regenerative hydrology and an agriculture plan. The castle stands up on a hill, in the past grapes were grown on the land to produce wine. Strong winds and rains hit the region, causing flash floods, erosion and destructive fires. The plan is to model the land in order to canalize the water overflow and slow down winds, limit erosion, recreate good living soil with holistic grazing practices and become a pioneer site for testing new perennial crops that can be integrated in the young agroforestry systems.
Designed by: Eléonore Todini
Woodlyland -Thailand
This 16+ hectares farm is nowadays a holistic center where permaculture classes, pioneer regenerative farming techniques and organic food production are the main activities. Architects of Life was part of the design team in 2022, actively engaged in the site visit and is so proud to consider this site amongst the most advanced and performing ones of its business activity. Woodyland farm top products are japanese rice, passion fruit, chicken & ducks eggs, diaries, honey and charcoal powder. The man behind this is Dr. Woody, an inspiring human spiritual being very engaged in doing good for his large community.
Designed by: Eléonore Todini
Syntafric – Ghana, Africa
This 40 hectares land was previously growing corn with conventional techniques that depleted the soil in only 2 years time. Before this, it was a forest. The goal here is to give back to the local community a working ground. Reshape the land, working on the scale of permanence on the 3 features “water, soil and trees” is key. The project is includes a nursery, arboretum, welcome center with cooking and education classes, pastures with holistic management of large animals (cows), agroforestry systems with nutsoap, mahogany and neem to stabilize the ground on the steepest slopes, riparian areas and irrigation ponds, syntropic systems, vetiver cultivation for essential oil and artcraft production.
Designed by: Eléonore Todini
Pluri Activity Farm – Corsica, France
A 6 hectares land in the island of Corsica, 1 km away from the Mediterranean Sea. Strong winds and drought are extreme factors increasing their frequency over the past years.
This pioneer project is a mix of “common” cultivated perennial crops like olive trees, citruses, and almond trees, with more southern species like carob and pistachio. Fertilization and grass control is done via rotational grazing, allowing the shepherds neighbors in the pastures at specific times of the year. Small autonomous houses and a solar power station are also included in the project, to diversify revenue.
Designed by: Eléonore Todini
Galt’s Landing – Florida
This 5 hectares off-grid land has been designed to host 12 duplex villas, 1 school and 1 community center. It is a permaculture living example of what 12 villas can look like when fully integrated as functional elements of the ecosystem. Biogas production units, solar energy, bio-intensive food production, syntropic systems, food forests, animal production, plant nurseries and common areas are designed to hold the needs of 70+ people.
Functional features such as water interconnected systems ( ponds, canals, storage tanks), windbreaks and buffer zones are introduced to maximise the life force potential of the land.
This is a wonderful work of passion, creativity and abundance designed in partnership with Food Forest Abundance.
To be part of it or to visit Galt’s Landing: https://galtswalks.com
Designed by: Eléonore Todini