We help families and land stewards transform degraded landscapes into abundant, self-sustaining food forests through tropical agroforestry, participatory design, and hands-on support.
Serving Costa Rica's Southern Zone
Bilingual (English & Spanish)
Inspiring visions with unrealistic expectations lead to drains of time, energy, and other resources.
Resources are invested without understanding ecological succession or the natural rhythms of tropical systems.
Trees planted in the wrong order or spacing quickly become an unmanageable jungle, beautiful but unproductive.
Without thoughtful design, food forests become a source of stress and exhaustion rather than abundance and joy.
Communities and teams lack functional frameworks for decision making and conflict resolution, leading to drama and stagnation.
We design food forests that become more abundant, resilient, and self-sustaining year after year, working with nature instead of against it.
As humanity awakens to the need to heal our relationship with Mother Earth, REGENESIS supports individuals and organizations in more effectively applying resources toward Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. When we work together for the good of all, we experience Heaven on Earth.
Caring for living and non-living systems: soils, species, water, and air, as the foundation of all human wellbeing.
Providing access to the resources necessary for food, shelter, education, and meaningful community connection.
Limiting consumption and redirecting surplus time, money, and materials toward Earth Care and People Care.
Nurturing relations between people and planet since 1999, Travis brings 22+ years of experience living and working within tropical intentional and indigenous communities, immersed in traditional farming and regenerative agroforestry systems. He began his journey as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later as an Assistant Trainer in Panama. He has supported over 20 homestead and community projects with social and permaculture leadership from Guatemala to Peru, including: Comuna Rhiannon, Ceibo-Bikis, Awakening Soul Sanctuary, Finca Fruition, Fuente Verde, Diamante Luz, Finca TierraS, and Amoras. His university thesis explored "Human Nature and the Village as a Catalyst for Well-Being" and his daily work continues to incarnate that vision.
REGENESIS collaborates with these organizations to create systemic change across Costa Rica.
We use participatory design methods, from hand-drawn food forest layers to interactive digital maps, ensuring every stakeholder understands and owns the vision.
Understanding people, place, culture, and vision. Every great design begins with deep listening to the land and its stewards.
Site analysis: mapping water flows, sun paths, soil types, existing ecology, and opportunity zones across the property.
Collaborative workshops using visual tools and facilitated consensus to co-create a master plan everyone believes in.
Providing hands-on guidance and support for land stewards and work crews as the design comes to life on the ground.
Continuous adaptation, building local capacity, and supporting long-term self-sufficiency so the ecosystem thrives without maintenance.
Food forest pathway at Diamante Luz in San Salvador, Costa Rica.
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Get StartedWe emphasize practical applications inspired by the pioneering work of Ernst Götsch, growing systems that become more abundant and self-managing with time.
Mimicking natural forest layers over time to create stable, self-managing ecosystems that require less and less intervention
Creating closed-loop fertility on-site so the land feeds itself, turning cut vegetation into rich mulch and living soil
Optimizing water retention and long-term yield abundance through multi-species planting, stratification, and companion planting
Each layer is designed so the faster species nurse the slower, higher-value trees toward a stable climax forest.
Fast-growing pioneer and support species establish the system, rapidly building biomass, breaking up compacted soil, and creating the protective conditions the slower, higher-value trees need to thrive.
The first productive canopy emerges and biomass becomes abundant, as papaya, banana, and moringa begin yielding while continuously feeding the soil with organic matter.
As the system matures, the canopy thickens, perennials begin yielding well, and the understory fills in beneath the growing trees.
High-value timber and tree crops come to dominate the system, with tall emergents sheltering a diverse, productive layer of fruit, nut, and spice species below.
The food forest reaches a mature, self-managing, multi-strata state, producing abundant yields across every layer while sustaining its own fertility with minimal intervention.
We co-create hand-illustrated sketches with land stewards to map their future forest layers.
We create detailed contextual assessments and regenerative master plans for new land seekers and existing land stewards using satellite imagery layovers.
We provide hands-on field support and ongoing guidance for homesteads, farms, and community initiatives. We speak fluent English and Spanish to put your team on the fast track to success and fulfillment.
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We offer collaborative design for regenerative neighborhoods, ecovillages, community initiatives, indigenous partnerships, and bioregional projects. We believe the design process should strengthen human relationships just as deeply as it shapes the physical landscape. Our trainings weave practical land skills together with the social systems communities need to truly thrive, ranging from 1-day workshops to 1-month immersions, with year-long apprenticeships coming soon.
Watch how we turn on-site brushwood and vegetation into rich mulch. This is a core technique in syntropic agroforestry that builds fertility, retains moisture, and feeds the next cycle of growth.
Watch: Tropical Syntropic Consortium Case Study
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Get StartedEvery landscape is unique. Here's a sample of our recent design work across Costa Rica's Southern Zone.
Agroforestry Support, Over 1,000 Trees Planted
Agroforestry Support & Syntropic Layout
Family Food Forest & Land Regeneration
Syntropic Design and Installation
Community Food Production & Distribution
Site Analysis & Macro Plan
Every project starts with possibility. Here's what regeneration can do over time.
We bring over two decades of tropical food forestry and cross-cultural collaboration across Latin America. In that time we have transformed more than twenty homesteads, farms, ecovillages, and community centers into thriving regenerative systems.
We work fluently in both English and Spanish, bridging international clients with local teams. This bilingual fluency lets us pair deep ecological literacy with grounded, practical implementation that produces optimal results and relations.
Our community facilitation is rooted in proven regenerative governance, including Sociocracy, Nonviolent Communication, and the Way of Council. We do more than design your land. We empower you and your team to steward it for generations to come.
Travis is one of the most knowledgeable and grounded permaculture practitioners I've had the pleasure of working with. His depth of understanding of syntropic systems, combined with his ability to communicate complex ecological concepts clearly, makes him an invaluable guide for anyone looking to regenerate their land in Costa Rica.
Jason Thomas
Regeneration Nation Costa Rica
Working with Travis has been transformational. He not only helped us design our food forest with incredible ecological intelligence, but he also helped our community come together around a shared vision. His facilitation skills are as strong as his horticultural knowledge.
Terra Nova
Holistic Life Tribe
Travis nos ayudó a convertir nuestra finca en un bosque comestible productivo. Su conocimiento de la agrosilvicultura sintrópica y su capacidad de trabajar tanto con el equipo local como con los propietarios internacionales es invaluable. Altamente recomendado. (Travis helped us convert our farm into a productive food forest. His knowledge and bilingual facilitation is invaluable. Highly recommended.)
Santiago
Molinos Verdes de Moringa
We hired Travis to help us design our family homestead in the Southern Zone and it was the best investment we made. He understood our vision immediately and created a design that felt both ambitious and totally achievable. A year later, our land is already producing abundantly.
Sam and Family
Happy in Costa Rica
I've worked with a lot of consultants in Costa Rica, and Travis stands out. He's patient, thorough, and deeply committed to the success of your project. He doesn't just give you a plan — he stays with you through the whole process. That kind of support is rare.
Richie DC
San Salvador, Costa Rica
Ojalá hubiera contratado a Travis hace años. Su experiencia en agroforestería tropical es profunda y su enfoque participativo hace que todo el equipo se sienta parte del proceso. Los resultados hablan por sí mismos. (I wish I had hired Travis years ago. His experience is profound and his participatory approach makes the whole team feel part of the process.)
Miguel
Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica
Imagine landscapes that produce food, restore biodiversity, retain water, strengthen local economies, and bring people together around meaningful work. Through syntropic agroforestry, regenerative design, and community empowerment, we can help cultivate that future together.
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