Our purpose is to help regenerate the world.
- to grow and propagate regenerative practices
- to build and grow regenerative businesses
- to make a tangible local impact on people, place and planet
Our purpose is to use a natural context to provide immersive experiences, practices, and training on how to be regenerative.
Our permaculture farm will be a destination of interest, focused on immersion in a natural, productive setting to inspire people to reconnect with themselves, each other and the planet.
Our values
Do Good
Maximise biodiversity, enable others and build community.
Be Better
Minimise fossil inputs and make everything better than it was.
Think Big
Think holistically, consider systems, make connections.
Act Now
Small acts create a big impact. Take action to have an impact today.
Make Beauty
Find elegant, simple solutions, finish well, see nature’s beauty.
Mistwood Permaculture Design
But why are we doing this?
Mistwood’s purpose is the help regenerate the world, but why are we doing this? And in this way?
Our founders, Melis and Cam, have run several businesses before:
For 15 years Huddle design was a highly renowned Strategic Design agency focused on doing meaningful work and positively affecting humanity. Huddle worked with hundreds of enterprises around the world on strategic initiatives using a design-led, human-centred approach.
Melis’ ongoing venture This Human is about ensuring committed, creative people continue to shape the world by building self knowledge and accountability in who we call designers—the leaders, creators and builders of this world.
So why do this? We have no background in farming…
Because we need to help shift the dialog around what it means to be “strategic” - what it means to be regenerative.
A different way of being is required.
And we need to show this through by being regenerative ourselves—and helping support people to be regenerative on their own personal journeys.
We’ve decided that for us to authentically help people with regenerative design and strategy, we need to do it—to live it. To have it become part of our way of being. Plus, we also get to have a tangible impact on the people, communities, and world around us.
And that’s worth it.
That’s why.
Guiding principles and ethics
We are guided by those who have come before and pioneered the way.
Reference: Holmgren, D. Permaculture Principles & Pathways beyond Sustainability
Caring for all life, emphasizing soil health, biodiversity, and minimal resource consumption for well-being and beyond sustainability.
The wellbeing of ourselves, our kin, and community is the best indicator of how we are going.
Live simply so others may simply live - living within limits and distribute the surplus.