Presenters:

Paul Kearsley, Principal, Homestead Habitats

Dave Boehnlein, Principle, Terra Phoenix Design

This breakout session will encourage participants to generate ideas about addressing the urban agriculture component in Living Building Challenge projects.

The session will begin with a facilitated design exercise.
Participants will break into small groups, each receiving a design scenario complete with a map of the project, the site, and contextual information. After a short work session, a presentation will illustrate 30+ successful techniques for on-site food production
covering the following design parameters: Creating Microclimates, Food Production in Architecture, Edible Landscaping, Indoor Food Production, Education & Maintenance, and Community Integration of Food Systems.

Each group will reconvene and work to generate practical ideas for how to better incorporate food production into their original project. At the end each group will report back to the whole with their best ideas.

Session Format:  BREAKOUT SESSION.

Presenter Bios

Paul Kearsley

Paul is currently working as principal with Homestead Habitats in Bellingham, Washington.  The vision is to improve local food security and community resiliency by designing functional sub-urban homesteads and teaching citizens how to use them.

A young designer with a passion for art and nature, Paul has worked on both institutional- and residential-scale masterplanning with Terra Phoenix Design & Exos Design. He has also led presentations and workshops with high schools, colleges and community groups.

While working independently and in collaboration with fellow designers, Paul is interested in the development of educational tools and functioning models of sustainability. He has a B.S. in industrial design and is a LEED accredited professional.

Dave Boehnlein

Dave Boehnlein serves as the principal for Terra Phoenix Design. He received his B.S. in Natural Resources & Environmental Studies from the University of Minnesota. Dave is also the education director at the Bullock's Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island where he has lived for over five years.

With varied backgrounds such as organizational leadership, internship/apprenticeship program design, and trail work Dave brings a unique set of skills to the Terra Phoenix team. In the rainforests of Central America Dave learned about permaculture and tropical agroforestry systems. From there he went on to learn a wide variety of design and implementation skills with the Bullocks.

While fine tuning his permaculture lenses Dave has also organized and taught at over a dozen permaculture courses & workshops. Dave is particularly interested in education, the mainstreaming of sustainability, and keeping things organized.