Regenerative design & consulting
Water-first, whole-property permaculture design for homesteads, farms, and families who want their land to feed them for generations.
Haven is a collaborative, family-run design practice. Every project is matched to the designer or team suited to it, with partner professionals brought in as the land demands.
Consultations, Site Baselines, food forests, and whole-property masterplans, scoped to your land and delivered to the Haven method.
$25,000+
in analysis and design, before the first shovel. Jamon Mysliwiec as your dedicated designer, with his hand-selected inner circle behind him.
The Independent American Gardener
Certified permaculture designer. Land, water, and food systems, from the first contour line to the last planted guild. Speaker from Baker Creek to the Stables Homestead Summit.
independentamericangardener.com →The Independent American Mama
Certified permaculture designer and co-founder of TIAG. Children, the home, homeschool, and art: designing the spaces where a family actually lives, learns, and grows. Homeschools their nine, runs I AM Imagery, and speaks across the country.
independentamericanmama.com →They design together, teach together, and have shared stages across the country, most recently the Ozarks Homesteading Expo in Marshfield, Missouri.
Your lot boundary, contours, water flow, sun, climate, soils, and the life already around you.
Request yours →One decision, one system, or the next phase, answered by someone who has built it.
Book a consultation →Water first, then access, shelter, food, and surplus: one coordinated plan you can build from in phases.
See the masterplan →Catchment, storage, swales, ponds, and gravity-fed distribution, placed before anything that depends on them.
Start with water →Nine-layer perennial systems, from canopy to fungi, matched to your climate and the hands that will tend them.
Grow a food forest →Owner-side sequencing, coordination, and accountability once the plan meets the ground.
Review project support →
We read your land in order of permanence: climate, landform, water, access, trees, structures, soil. Get the early layers right and everything after is cheaper and kinder.
"We are mentors, not contractors. We show you what your land can become, and walk beside you while you build it."
The Haven way
Your goals, family, budget, and what success on this land looks like.
Terrain, water, climate, soils, sun, sectors, and the life already there.
One living system: zones, water, food forest, access, and structures.
A sequence you can afford and sustain, season by season.
Every property is named by region. Client names and addresses are never published.
Successional swales on contour, rain tanks fed from the roof, a natural swim pond, a terraced micro-vineyard, and a nine-layer food-forest guild.
Thirty years of climate data, a landscape-scale biodiversity review, a 24-point location key, and a 41-species planting palette built for −22 °F.
Haven grows from the same roots as the rest of the Mysliwiec family's work: a community, a store, and a school for families building independence.
TIAGThe Independent American Gardener: app, community, and member hubs.
The Independence SeriesCourses and webinars on food, water, shelter, and surplus.
Lulu's GardenTools, seed, and the Generational Hive for self-sufficient families.
The Independent American MamaRianna Mysliwiec: children, home, homeschool, art, and the IAM community.
Clients & TIAG members
Your maps, plans, reports, and messages live in your private My Haven portal. TIAG members use the same account.
Tell us what you are building, where you are stuck, and what you need the land to do for your family.
