Welcome to the Diploma portfolio at Beyondbuckthorns.com.
On this site you can read through nearly all of Lumia's and Dominik's diploma designs. The content below is in chronological order. The latest content is at the top. Besides our portfolios there is also supporting content.
Hoop house reimagined
This project gives new life to an old hoop house frame that’s been sitting unused for two years after its plastic cover wore out. The aim is simply to find good use for the unused hoop house frame. Rather than buying a new cover, I’m reimagining… more
Lumia’s personal Digital Permaculture design
The design is me studying the groundbreaking book “Digital Permaculture” by Dominik Jais and using the system and tools described in the book to do a review, analysis and a better design of my digital life. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais’ Diploma Portfolio… more
Food forest at Beyond Buckthorns
This design is about curating a food forest at Beyond Buckthorns into an area which has been a garden in the past but has since grown pretty wild, located in Zones 2 and 3. The design aims to increase biodiversity, get yields and enable teaching… more
Designing an introduction to permaculture course
Designing a weekend course “Introduction to Permaculture” to be held at Beyond Buckthorns. This design concentrates on the curriculum of the course. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 6/10.
Wood resilience at Beyond Buckthorns
Regenerative woodland management design at Beyond Buckthorns. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 5/10.
Weekly Realignment Process Design
This design is done as a seedling design in the CEED course of 2023 by Looby Macnamara and Jon Young. The final design transformed into a Weekly Realignment process, and this is its story. This is Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 4/10.
DIY Café at the Nordic Permaculture Festival
For the Nordic permaculture festival 2022 I designed this little DIY Café. At first I thought it’s only for the guests, but indeed it has been as much a design for myself and my sanity! This is Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 2/10.
Herb spiral at Beyond Buckthorns
This design is for a herb garden area at Beyond Buckthorns, close to the house. The design follows a V-CEAP design process. The herb garden area is planned for a zone 1 spot very close to the house and under an oak tree. This is Lumia Huhdanpää-… more
Thoughts about Artificial Intelligence in permaculture in context of the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design
In 2021 I came across generative AI, first image, then text. This article is for my colleagues, the tutors at the Permaculture Association Britain in order to give them some insights into my thoughts about AI.
This article was co-written by… more
Nordic Permaculture Festival Design - Part Three, Action Phase
Design for the 2022 NPF in Vesilahti, Finland. Part Three, the Action Phase. We have the team, the processes and the technical side set-up, so it is time to get rocking. I describe some problems we encountered in the team and how they were solved… more
Nordic Permaculture Festival Design - Part Two, The Festival Project
Design for the 2022 NPF in Vesilahti, Finland. Part Two, setting up the team for the task, including team building and management with the goal of ethical and principle-based co-creation of the 11th annual Nordic Permaculture Festival. This is… more
Nordic Permaculture Festival Design - Part One, Kick-Off Phase
Design for the 2022 NPF in Vesilahti, Finland. Part One, the process of kicking off the ethical and principle-based co-creation of the 11th annual Nordic Permaculture Festival – a gathering of permaculture people from all the Nordic countries to… more
Eutopia borealis
When Lumia and I moved to Finland in 2016 we started observing right away. We discovered micro climates, areas where edible fungi grew, natural trees nurseries, etc. We also noticed one particular area. An area that somehow seemed out of context… more
PermaPuheet
The PermaPuheet is a design for a series of lectures for the Finnish Permaculture Association. It was well received by many members and helped to more than double the number of members within 3 month.
Catching the rain
At Beyond Buckthorns we have our own well. It is 12 – 13 meters deep and is connected to a pump that starts when there is demand. Well water is our drinking and washing water. In 2017 we got hit by 2 droughts. Both together made it necessary to… more
Communications at the Finnish Permaculture Association
The idea for this design started in 2017 during a meeting of the Finnish Permaculture Association. When I became chairman of the board in 2019 I was in a unique position. The association was in transition towards sociocratic circular method. The… more
Templating a workshop
Designing a biogas workshop that can be delivered over and over again. Creating a workshop blueprint.
Permablitz designCamp
In early 2020 we bought the neighbors 0,5ha pine forest / recreational spot that was years back sold to them by Lumia's, my wife’s parents. The neighbors wanted to sell and for us it was a good opportunity to buy. Lumia then started the process… more
Welcome to the PermaCafe
Over the past years the Finnish permaculture association used all kinds of different tools and processes to get members involved. The following design used permaculture ethics and principles to introduce a new social design tool called PermaCafé… more
Ritvas Permaculture Garden
Designing a permaculture garden for a friend of mine in Finland was fun. I appreciated been given that opportunity. Read about the entire Permaculture design process using Looby's design web.
Introducing the Jean-Luc
Since I got dropped into biogas, working with Prof. TH Culhane on different biogas projects, I always wanted to have a biogas system on my own. When I came to Finland I finally got the space to build a biogas digester and then actually experiment… more
The Biogas Shed
It is 2017 and my parents were on holidays at Beyond Buckthorns and they told me during a walk that something needs to be done with one of the sheds, especially with the color of the walls, which was already coming off. A confession: the color of… more