Selected Projects
The following represents a cross section of our work:
Middlebury College Student Organic Farm & Garden
WSD planned the continuing development of Middlebury's Organic Farm into a leading model of ecological land use that addresses 21st century challenges in climate change, agriculture, ecology, & economics. The student organic farm and garden site offers a unique opportunity to address these challenges through a learning landscape that sets new standards in education for sustainability and design for climate change.
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Cohousing - Sustainable Agriculture Housing Community
Lawrenceville School
Campus food garden, edible outdoor classroom & learning landscape
Menla Mountain Retreat Center
Phoenecia, NY, Tibet House U.S
WSD conducted site analysis and outlined development challenges, opportunities and strategies for an innovative retreat center, natural healing facility, educational campus, summer camp, monastic setting, research and development center for Tibetan medicine, art gallery and art studio, and organic farm.
Forest Gardens, Fruit Orchars, Nutteries, and other Farm and Edible Landscape Development
Deans Mtn Farm
Mad River Valley, VT
- Polyculture ponds
- Timber and stone bathhouse
- Polyculture orchards
- Green building timber framed studio and shop
- Understory gourmet mushroom cultivation
- Vernal pools, watercourses
- Integrated design for climate change
Center for Whole Communities – Timber framed solar bathhouse
Set amid the northern hardwoods of Knoll Farm, the bathhouse serves as a communal bathing space for retreat participants. It was built to the highest ecological standards serving as an example of sustainable working landscape development for the conservation planners who attend the retreats. The structure includes a living roof, cob walls, local stone and a timber frame composed of trees from the site. This gallery covers some of the construction process from raw material to finished product.
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Master Plan for Farm, Corporate Retreat Setting and Post Oil Residence
Litchfield County, CT
Farm and Home
Windsor Mountain (Interlocken) Summer Camp – Playspace design build and program
Along with a team of summer campers, Whole Systems Design transformed an overgrown island of trees within a sports field into a playful, natural nook for campers to get out of the sun, gather in small groups and find quiet space away from the action. Elements include site-milled lumber, site-harvested stone, and blueberry border plantings. Whole Systems Design identified the overgrown grove and then facilitated a week-long program activity during which time campers designed the space, harvested the needed materials, and then planted and constructed the grove.
Farm Technical Assistance Grants
Littlewood Farm - Plainfield, Vermont
Residence
Site Development Consulting, Project Preliminaries
Bronx, NY
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Westport, CT
Charlotte, VT
Strafford, VT
Woodstock, VT
Shelburne, VT
Warren, VT
Burlington, VT