Haven Permaculture emblem: a tree of life within a triangle Regenerative design & consulting

Make your home a Haven.

Water-first, whole-property permaculture design for homesteads, farms, and families who want their land to feed them for generations.

Founded by The Independent American Gardener & The Independent American MamaCertified permaculture designerFood · Water · Shelter · Surplus
Canopy · the long view

Two ways to work with Haven.

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.

Standard engagements

The Haven design team

Consultations, Site Baselines, food forests, and whole-property masterplans, scoped to your land and delivered to the Haven method.

  • A designer or team matched to your property, climate, and goals
  • Partner specialists for water, earthworks, ecology, and builds
  • Everything delivered to your private My Haven portal
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By application · limited each year

The Founder-Led Program

$25,000+

in analysis and design, before the first shovel. Jamon Mysliwiec as your dedicated designer, with his hand-selected inner circle behind him.

  • Jamon personally, from first analysis to final design
  • An inner-circle team assembled for your program
  • Secured by a non-refundable retainer
Apply for the program
Rianna and Jamon Mysliwiec at golden hour on their Ozarks homestead
The family at the heart of Haven

Founded by Jamon & Rianna Mysliwiec.

Jamon Mysliwiec

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 →

Rianna Mysliwiec

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.

Shrub layer · how we grow a plan

From overwhelm to an ordered plan.

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
  1. Discover

    Your goals, family, budget, and what success on this land looks like.

  2. Assess

    Terrain, water, climate, soils, sun, sectors, and the life already there.

  3. Design

    One living system: zones, water, food forest, access, and structures.

  4. Build in phases

    A sequence you can afford and sustain, season by season.

Ground layer · work on real land

Real properties. Real plans.

Every property is named by region. Client names and addresses are never published.

Rendered masterplan of a terraced Southern California hillside homestead
Southern California · 2.5-acre hillside

A Mediterranean hillside, terraced and watered by gravity.

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.

High-desert homestead concept with shelterbelts, orchard, ponds, and apiary
Southern Utah · high-desert homestead

Wind, cold, and a seasonal wash, turned into shelter and water.

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.

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Roots · the network beneath

Rooted in a living network.

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.

Jamon and Rianna Mysliwiec
Ozarks Homesteading Expo
Jamon & Rianna, speakers · Marshfield, Missouri · 2026
Jamon Mysliwiec speaking to a full hall at the Stables Homestead Summit
Stables Homestead Summit
Main stage, co-headlined with Joel Salatin · Lamoni, Iowa · 2025
Jamon Mysliwiec presenting on the rareseeds Talks stage at Baker Creek
Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival
Presenter, rareseeds Talks stage
Certified Permaculture Designer
Trained through Verge Permaculture · recognized by PINA
Clients & TIAG members

Your Haven, one sign-in away.

Your maps, plans, reports, and messages live in your private My Haven portal. TIAG members use the same account.

Your land can become more

Start with one clear conversation.

Tell us what you are building, where you are stuck, and what you need the land to do for your family.