Individual Impact 3: Case Study

Bill’s Homestead

SPURRING COMMUNITY GIVING THROUGH A SMALL SUBURBAN HOMESTEAD
Bill discusses his landscape transformation by Circlefoot.

Client Wishlist

Client Wishlist: Landscape Design, Palate-driven Farming, Soil Management, Construction
Project Timeline: 3 to 5 months (and now ad hoc projects)

What Circlefoot Created

We have partnered with a homestead owner in San Mateo, CA who has been micro farming his 6,000 square foot lot since 2012. Our client was looking for guidance to create a productive landscape design for fresh produce, flowers, herbs, aromatics and fruit trees.

Raised vegetable planter with mixed greens.

As an avid do-it-yourselfer, our client engaged Circlefoot as a consultant and we worked with him when the project called for additional help. We created a regenerative system to manage his homestead, starting with soil rehabilitation and management and water systems for rainwater, greywater harvesting and drainage solution.

We replaced an old pergola with a new shade structure while preserving the 50 year-old wisteria plant and its beautiful blooms. We built a large composting receptacle, a tool shed, and several raised wooden planters to make cultivation easier.

Our client was so inspired by the work on his own homestead that he started a nonprofit called Grow San Mateo to bring cohesion to local urban and suburban gardening.

Today the organization produces and shares a variety of produce, flowers, medicinal and aromatic herbs as a community. They have also organized to donate their excess production to less fortunate neighbors in San Mateo.

Grow San Mateo – An inspired community of homesteaders sharing surplus

Circlefoot helped us transform our tired yard into a climatefriendly, food producing garden.“

– Bill S. San Mateo

Regenerative Impact Beyond the Project
COLLECTIVE IMPACT 4 TAKING IT FURTHER

Thinking Study

 ECOLOGY FOR REGENERATIVE IMPACT

Theme

 Ecosystems where neighbors can connect, create together and share surplus

“Strategic disturbance is the catalyst to ecological innovation.

– Joel Salatin, Regeneration Farmer

Circlefoot imagines time and space inspired by the Ohlone tribe that lived on these lands. We work in harmony and evolve with nature to cultivate food for our families and share the surplus with our neighbors and other living creatures. We connect with our livestock and the wildlife and work with them to cohabit in mutually beneficial ways. We work with the watersheds and the fog and wind patterns, and the seasons to create homes and spaces that build with nature, not against it.

Circlefoot Bucket List

INDIVIDUAL IMPACT 3: CASE STUDY

Bill’s Homestead

SPURRING COMMUNITY GIVING THROUGH A SMALL SUBURBAN HOMESTEAD

Bill discusses his landscape transformation by Circlefoot.

Client Wishlist: Landscape Design, Palate-driven Farming, Soil Management, Construction

Project Timeline: 3 to 5 months (and now ad hoc projects)

What Circlefoot Created

We have partnered with a homestead owner in San Mateo, CA who has been micro farming his 6,000 square foot lot since 2012. Our client was looking for guidance to create a productive landscape design for fresh produce, flowers, herbs, aromatics and fruit trees.

Raised vegetable planter with mixed greens.

As an avid do-it-yourselfer, our client engaged Circlefoot as a consultant and we worked with him when the project called for additional help. We created a regenerative system to manage his homestead, starting with soil rehabilitation and management and water systems for rainwater, greywater harvesting and drainage solution.

We replaced an old pergola with a new shade structure while preserving the 50 year-old wisteria plant and its beautiful blooms. We built a large composting receptacle, a tool shed, and several raised wooden planters to make cultivation easier.

Regenerative Impact Beyond the Project

Our client was so inspired by the work on his own homestead that he started a nonprofit called Grow San Mateo to bring cohesion to local urban and suburban gardening.

Today the organization produces and shares a variety of produce, flowers, medicinal and aromatic herbs as a community. They have also organized to donate their excess production to less fortunate neighbors in San Mateo.

Grow San Mateo – An inspired community of homesteaders sharing surplus

”Circlefoot helped us transform our tired yard into a climate
friendly, food producing garden.“

– Bill S. San Mateo

COLLECTIVE IMPACT 4 TAKING IT FURTHER

Thinking Study

 ECOLOGY FOR REGENERATIVE IMPACT

”Strategic disturbance is the catalyst to ecological innovation.“

– Joel Salatin, Regeneration Farmer

Theme

 Ecosystems where neighbors can connect, create together and share surplus

Circlefoot Bucket List

Circlefoot imagines time and space inspired by the Ohlone tribe that lived on these lands. We work in harmony and evolve with nature to cultivate food for our families and share the surplus with our neighbors and other living creatures. We connect with our livestock and the wildlife and work with them to cohabit in mutually beneficial ways. We work with the watersheds and the fog and wind patterns, and the seasons to create homes and spaces that build with nature, not against it.