Guides, deep-dives, and how-tos for designers, farmers, landscape architects, and gardeners using AI tools to design with nature.
Practical posts on permaculture design software, passive solar buildings, plant guilds, soil amendments, and regenerative landscape architecture — written for practitioners, grounded in the tools we actually build.
Why I built EcoDesign: what ecological design actually demands of a designer, what regenerating Belentepe Farm taught me about the research behind every decision, and how AI went from a faster search box to a system of agents that can hold a whole project.
5 min read Project MapEvery EcoDesign project opens on a map of its own steps: what each one produced, which steps feed which, and what to do next. What the map shows, how to read a single step, and why the whole of it — locked stages included — is drawn on every free project.
8 min read Research Hub · Pillar guideMost of a project's cost is decided before the first plant goes in. How EcoDesign's Research Hub surfaces a site's current status, real potential, and hidden risks — before the capital is committed, and mostly for free.
11 min read Farmer Hub · Pillar guideThe research behind EcoDesign's Farmer Hub — the adoption barriers small-scale farmers face, the design decisions we made in response, and how six AI modules turn expert agronomy into a few taps in the field.
13 min read Design Philosophy · Pillar guideWhy resilience comes from diversity and beneficial connections, how EcoDesign encodes every component as a connected agent, and why the platform is itself a complex adaptive system.
10 min read Permaculture · Pillar guideWhat permaculture design software does, how AI changes the workflow, what to look for, and how to pick the right tool for your practice.
12 min read Passive SolarHow passive solar floor plan generators work, why algorithmic geometry beats LLM-only approaches, and what the 6-tier constraint priority means for your design.
8 min read Plant GuildsWhat a plant guild is, why polycultures outperform monocultures, and how AI plant guild design tools combine ecological data with seasonal visualization.
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