The Plant Based Life Design

is a practical way to shape your home and life around what truly matters. Nature, health, rhythm, and simplicity. It’s about building a life that’s balanced and rooted in natural systems, from how you grow your food, to how you build your home, to how you feed yourself and your family. Rooted in The Plant Based Life Design Principles, this approach guides you to:

Design

Design and build spaces that support wellbeing using natural materials and thoughtful craftmanship

Strength

Strengthen your inner vitality through daily habits and grounded living.

Plan

Plan and grow your own food in rhythm with the seasons

Preserve

Preserve and store your harvest so nothing goes to waste

Prepare

Prepare organic, plant-based, raw, and living meals that bring life to the table

Share

Share food and connection with those around you

How to form a deeper connection…

From garden to kitchen, from house to table, this design weaves nature and natural systems into every corner of your life, helping you live with more vitality, less clutter, and deeper connection to the land beneath your feet.

  • This is the starting point, growing your food, building your home, or simply putting your hands in the soil. It doesn’t have to be big. Whether you’re planting herbs, vegetables or laying foundations, the land brings you into rhythm with the seasons, teaches patience, and roots you in something real. Nourishment or shelter, it’s where care begins, from the ground up.

  • Your home supports the way you live. It holds the rhythm of your day, the flow of your actions, and the systems that keep you well. Whether off-grid or just slowing down, this is where your values take shape in daily life. A place that holds and nurtures you and your family.

  • The space where life slows down. It’s where you begin to grow your food, store tools, and rest. You grow food, store tools, take breaks, and spend time outdoors. Whether it’s raised beds, a greenhouse, a shed, or just a sunny chair, the garden is where your home meets the land in a beautiful, calming, grounded way.

  • Where the harvest meets the home. The raw kitchen is a space alive with scent, colour, and energy, greens fresh from the soil, ferments bubbling in the corner, hands moving with purpose. It’s a place of clarity and creativity and where food becomes life.

  • Where food becomes connection. The table is the heart of the home, where meals are shared, stories are told, and something deeper is fed. Whether hosting or feeding loved ones it is here where meals are shared, plates are passed hand to hand, and love is shown in every simple act of feeding one another. This is where family life grows strong.

  • Where the garden meets the kitchen. This is where you store, prepare, and preserve. A space of order, care, and resourcefulness, turning what you grow into clean, nourishing food. It’s where you learn to make the most of what you have, and where your creations are stored. This is the ground of self-reliance.

  • The living centre of it all, your energy, your mood, your sense of wellbeing. When your outer life is rooted and aligned in nature and rhythm, your inner life finds its strength. The Tree of Vitality is how everything connects inside: aligned, steady and vital.

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