Fazenda Compadres
Fazenda Compadres is a commercial farm in the south-west of Portugal.
My design included:
- High density agroforestry lines
- Standardisation of operations across the farm
- Planting schedule for vegetable production
- Strategy for soil recovery
- Organisation of tasks and team management
- Business plan
- Grey water system
- Establishment of farmers market and connection with other producers
Circular resource management
Houseful is a European project aiming at demonstrating closed loops in urban environments that recycle and re-use waste for food and energy.production locally. I have designed the nutrient flows to re-use solid waste and waste water for the production of vegetables and fish for a demonstration site in Vienna.
Homestead in Portugal
This is a fully off grid homestead I designed in the south-west of Portugal. The project was features on the front page of the Permaculture magazine!
My design included:
- Low maintenance agroforestry system
- Grey water system
- Pond filled with treated grey water and rainwater
- Vegetable garden
- Earthworks for erosion prevention and water retention
Vale da Agua
After 8000 hectares of land burned, we implemented these earthworks to reduce erosion and help the land infiltrate water to recover.
The design. of my colleague Nick Steiner and I included:
- A preliminary digital analysis of the site
- Various dams, sediment traps, swales and tilted terraces
- Agroforestry systems to be planted along the earthworks
- Other erosion prevention systems