Designers, builders, engineers, educators and chefs who work as one practice instead of competing for the same jobs. Whoever is right for your project leads it; everyone else is behind them.
We design healthy land systems, build them and teach others to do the same, returning our profits to community benefit and land trusts. You direct the vision; the ethics keep every choice honest.
That land trust is the long game and it is the point. Profits return to a growing network of held property supporting seed security, biodiversity, food and water security, and natural reserves for living, education and hospitality. Hub gardens and nature spaces closing the loop between the people and the land that feed each other.
The method does not change with the size of the job: design, build, maintain, train, document, monitor. Start where it’s easy, grow as the land improves itself.
Not CVs. What each person actually opens for the project in front of them.
Designer, builder and chef. Carries the design language the whole practice draws in, and walks into the rooms where the work gets decided — restaurant groups, hospitality operators, and the people who own the land before they know what to do with it.
Read more →Sets the standard every drawing is held to, and mentors the bench of designers we certify. Two decades of built work behind him and the infrastructure record at Lake Atitlán that makes municipal work credible rather than aspirational.
Read more →Ponds, catchment, hydration and living-water systems, built with volunteers and taught on the ground. Water is the first decision on any site and the fear most people are already carrying — he is the answer to it.
Read more →Head chef through serious California restaurants, then ran the largest catering conglomerate in America. Knows the farmers, the ordering, the inventory and the events. For any operator whose food system is quietly costing them their margin, he is the way in.
Bespoke software for retreats and hospitality — booking, operations and the systems a property actually runs on. Also builds the design engine that turns a site read into a costed, buildable plan.
Read more →Architecture at the scale where drawings need a stamp. Bio being written in his own words rather than invented here.
Event and advertising production. Bio being written in her own words rather than invented here.
Bio being written in their own words rather than invented here.
Regenerative design and farm systems on Lake Atitlán, and the working ground a great deal of our method was proven on.
Two more partnerships are in conversation and will be named here once they are agreed rather than announced ahead of themselves.
Twenty-three centuries ago, on the edge of Athens, a philosopher named Epicurus bought a walled garden and did something unusual for his time: he grew food on it, shared the meals that came off it, and taught anyone who walked in — men, women, and the enslaved alike — how to live well with less. People didn't call it a school. They called it, simply, the Garden.
It was never a lecture hall with a wall between teacher and student. It was a working piece of land that fed the people who tended it, and a community that turned a good life into something you could learn and carry home. The whole promise fit on a barley cake and a cup of water handed to you at the gate: sufficiency. Here you will do well to stay.
That is the oldest version of what we build. Every project we take on is a garden in the same sense — land designed to feed you, a table set from the ground it stands on, and the know-how to grow both, shared with everyone who joins. New instruments, ancient idea: people and land taking care of each other, and the knowledge spreading faster than any one of us could carry it.
"Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure."— Inscription at the gate of Epicurus's Garden · Athens · c. 306 BCE
Member or not. Whether you have worked with us for years or you saw an ad this morning and thought of someone with land. If we cash a check, you get one too.
Send the introduction to info@ourcollectiveedge.com and tell us who they are and what they are trying to do. That is the whole process.
When we do, cooperative membership opens with it. If you can bring real value now, tell us and you will be at the top of the list. Five questions, one click each.
We will come back to you when the books open. If a project comes up before then that fits what you do, we will come back sooner.