My Projects
I have designed, helped to implement and follow several regenerative projects around the world. Here you find a selection of these, including vegetable farms, community gardens and private smallholdings.
Costapiana Farm
Vicenza, Italy
A multi-disciplinary co-design project to regenerate an abandoned mid-mountain landscape (600m altitude), integrating agriculture into a newly formed co-housing community.
My role in this collaborative project focuses on developing a complex, successional agroforestry system and offering training on its management.
The design integrates multi-layered tree plantings with biointensive market gardening and small fruits in the inter-row spaces. Rather than focusing solely on fruit yield, the system is engineered to provide critical ecosystem services—slowing rainwater, reducing erosion, building soil organic matter, and creating functional biodiversity within a resilient agro-silvo-pastoral model.
Orto del Sorriso
Ancona, Italy
A social agricultural cooperative dedicated to the socio-occupational reintegration of vulnerable individuals. Producing fresh vegetables for direct local sale and home delivery, the project needed technical refinement to optimize its yield and daily operations without losing sight of its primary social and human mission.
My work focused on elevating the efficiency and ecological health of their no-dig market garden. I provided hands-on support to streamline overall management, refine crop selection for their farm shop, and optimize seasonal sequencing. By implementing targeted soil fertility protocols, we ensured the vegetable beds remain highly productive, manageable, and resilient—creating a system that sustains both the land and the people working it.
Emergence Institute
Whidbey Island, Washington, USA
An environmental educational retreat center set on a pristine, forested landscape in Washington State. Rooted in the mission of the Kalliopeia Foundation and Emergence Magazine, the center required a food production system that fully embodied their ethos of ecology, culture, and deep relationship with the living world—designed to sustain both the land and the guests attending their residencies.
Collaborating closely with the Institute’s gardens manager, I co-designed a highly productive, human-scale landscape. We established a biointensive no-dig vegetable garden seamlessly and a successional, syntropic agroforestry system. The design prioritizes biological soil health and closed-loop fertility, ensuring the gardens not only provide vital, hyper-local nourishment for the retreats, but also serve as a living, educational model of regenerative stewardship.
The Wise Radish
Loddiswell, Devon, UK
A biointensive market garden founded and managed by Sky, my former intern at Living Soil Garden. The project required comprehensive guidance to transform an empty field into a fully functioning farm that was both ecologically sound and economically viable for a new grower starting from scratch.
I provided ongoing consultation and mentorship throughout the farm's entire development cycle. My support covered the initial spatial design and planning, guiding the practical implementation of the no-dig system and daily agronomic management. Beyond the soil work, I offered strategic advice on production logistics, crop selection, and sales dynamics.
Serendipity Farm
Totnes, Devon, UK
A 3-acre property featuring a small valley, vigorous hedgerows, left unmanaged as a hay field for decades. The owners wanted to regenerate the land to produce a diverse range of plant-based foods, requiring a low-maintenance, perennial-focused system since they cannot be present on-site full time.
To rapidly trigger ecological succession, I designed a system of mixed agroforestry rows positioned along the landscape's keylines and contours to optimise water distribution and prevent erosion. The design functions as a linear forest garden, integrating three distinct layers of fruit trees, berry shrubs, and perennial vegetables, supported by heavily pruned nitrogen-fixing "service plants" to generate on-site mulch and build soil fertility. I also provided a Savanna-style planting pattern for grazing areas and integrated plans for no-dig vegetable beds between the tree rows.
Other projects
Across England
Beyond my core design work, a diverse network of no-dig market gardens, agroforestry plantings, and self-sufficiency projects has taken root across England.
These spaces have been established by passionate growers who attended my field courses, received private advisory support, or walked the paths of Living Soil Garden. Inspired by seeing a thriving biological system in person, they have gone on to successfully recreate and adapt these regenerative practices on their own land.
Other projects
Across Italy
Similarly, throughout Italy, a growing community of farmers and private estate owners is rethinking their landscapes. Many of these projects were born after their founders visited OrtoForesta in Florence, participated in my hands-on training, or sought specific consultations to transition their conventional fields. It is a profound privilege to see these individuals translate ecological theory into thriving, productive realities, building human-scale agricultural systems from the ground up.
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Every piece of land has a different history, and every grower has a different goal. Transitioning to a regenerative model—whether you are managing a large commercial acreage or a private family garden—is not about applying a rigid set of rules. It is about rigorous observation and designing a system tailored specifically to your context.
I work alongside commercial farmers, community projects, and private individuals to build human-scale, highly productive systems that reduce external inputs and return sovereignty to the people working the land.