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Food forest at Beyond Buckthorns

This design is about curating a food forest at Beyond Buckthorns into an area which has been a garden in the past but has since grown pretty wild, located in Zones 2 and 3. The design aims to increase biodiversity, get yields and enable teaching…

Designing an introduction to permaculture course

Designing a weekend course “Introduction to Permaculture” to be held at Beyond Buckthorns. This design concentrates on the curriculum of the course. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 6/10.

Wood resilience at Beyond Buckthorns

Regenerative woodland management design at Beyond Buckthorns. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 5/10.

Weekly Realignment Process Design

This design is done as a seedling design in the CEED course of 2023 by Looby Macnamara and Jon Young. The final design transformed into a Weekly Realignment process, and this is its story. This is Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 4/10.

DIY Café at the Nordic Permaculture Festival

For the Nordic permaculture festival 2022 I designed this little DIY Café. At first I thought it’s only for the guests, but indeed it has been as much a design for myself and my sanity! This is Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 2/10.

Herb spiral at Beyond Buckthorns

This design is for a herb garden area at Beyond Buckthorns, close to the house. The design follows a V-CEAP design process. The herb garden area is planned for a zone 1 spot very close to the house and under an oak tree. This is Lumia Huhdanpää…

Building the most sustainable wooden boat possible

In early 2024, I enrolled us in a wooden boat-building course. But not just any course—this was a chance to build a boat using Vendia wood.