Scott Gallant

Scott Gallant is a permaculture designer and educator with nearly a decade of experience working in Central America. He is the co-founder of Porvenir Design, a landscape design firm specializing in productive landscapes.

He graduated from Wabash College in 2008 with a degree in Economics. He was the farm manager at Rancho Mastatal for nine years, and has worked with diverse projects such as VersaLand, Open Source Ecology, Project Bonafide and many more as he has developed his skill-set in permaculture design.

Passionate about regenerative agriculture, holistic thinking, ethnobotany, community development, and re-skilling, he still makes time to hike and bike, read exhaustively, and work on his basketball jump shot and frisbee throw.

He has traveled extensively in Latin America, leading to a love of the culture, food, and language, which he attempts to speak.

Scott writes for the Permaculture Research Institute and has been featured on the Permaculture Voices and Abundant Edge podcasts.

Scott's Summit Presentation

CREATING AND OPERATING A SUCCESSFUL PERMACULTURE DESIGN FIRM

Join Scott Gallant (@scottplantstrees), founder of Porvenir Design, on a journey through the first five years of starting and developing a permaculture design firm. This talk, based on designing and installing dozens of homesteads, farms, ecovillages, etc in the tropics, will equip you with the tools and knowledge to cultivate a successful venture aligned with your values and the planet’s health.

Dive into the following key areas:

Laying the Foundation:
Holistic Context: Understanding where you work, your community’s needs, and most importantly the quality of life your team desires.
Finding Your Niche: Define your unique offerings, we will explore what our team has found that works and what doesn’t work based on our skill sets.
Nurturing Growth:
Using Dynamic Stability as a Model: Walk with us as we see how our business has changed every year. See what has worked, where we have struggled and our vision for the next five years.
Planting the Seeds of Community: We discuss how our network has grown, how it has supported our professional aspirations and how our team strives to give back through accessible education, creating a community of practice, etc.
Harvesting Abundance:
We gather key takeaways from our first five years; how we communicate with clients, how we set expectations, how we decide our pricing, how we have approached hiring, and much more. Here you will find the practical examples that we hope you can apply directly to your professional aspirations.

Throughout the talk, Scott will weave in inspiring examples from his own journey, practical tips for overcoming challenges, and a wealth of resources to guide your next steps.