5th world properties

Modern Properties That Thrive in a Changing World

We create regenerative homesteads and farms that unlock your land’s potential. Every project starts with a detailed site analysis to guide landscaping, food production, water systems, and renewable energy into one beautiful, functional plan.

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Our Services

Land Analysis and Concept Design
Starting at $500 CAD

Every project begins with a comprehensive site assessment, analyzing topography, sun exposure, soils, water, vegetation, climate, access, and more. This reveals your land’s constraints and opportunities, informing every design decision.

Whether you’re developing an entire property or installing a standalone food, water, or energy system, we design each project to work with the broader landscape and support your long-term goals.

We also review zoning, bylaws, environmental regulations, and permitting requirements to help ensure your project is compliant.

  • Comprehensive site analysis and property assessment
  • Opportunities and constraints analysis
  • Review of applicable bylaws, zoning, and permitting requirements
  • Collaborative consultation to define your goals and priorities
  • Preliminary layout of food, water, energy, access, and infrastructure systems
  • Phased development strategy with implementation priorities
  • Design presentation and recommendations
  • High level budget assessment
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Detailed Design
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Following the concept design, we can prepare a complete set of construction-ready drawings and technical specifications. Depending on the project, your design package may include grading, drainage, water and irrigation systems, planting plans, structural drawings, solar layouts, material specifications, and phased implementation recommendations.

The result is a build-ready package that turns your vision into clear, practical instructions for contractors and builders.

  • Contractor-ready design package
  • Engineering and structural design
  • Grading and drainage plans
  • Water supply, storage, and irrigation design
  • Planting plans and agricultural layouts
  • Greenhouse, outbuilding, and infrastructure drawings
  • Renewable energy system layouts
  • Material specifications and construction details
  • Dimensions, elevations, and quantity schedules
  • Construction-ready technical drawings
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Implementation
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Successful projects depend on careful execution. We can coordinate construction, work with trusted contractors, or complete key installations ourselves to ensure the design is built as intended.

Whether you’re developing an entire property or installing a single food, water, or energy system, we deliver solutions that perform reliably, integrate seamlessly, and provide lasting value.

  • Project management and construction coordination
  • Contractor procurement and oversight
  • Installation of selected systems and infrastructure
  • Site inspections and quality assurance
  • Design support during construction
  • Phased implementation planning
  • Coordination with suppliers and trades
  • Troubleshooting and on-site adjustments
  • Final walkthrough and project completion review
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Property Design to Elevate Your Lifestyle or Business

Your property should make life better—not create more work.

A well-designed landscape makes it easy to grow food, relax outdoors, entertain, and care for the land.

5th World combines strategy, design, and hands-on expertise to create productive residential and commercial landscapes that produce nutritious food, and clean water and energy. We design resilient, self-sufficient properties that improve human and environmental health while reducing exposure to extreme weather, power outages, supply chain disruptions, and economic uncertainty.

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Regenerative Design Systems

Every property is unique. Depending on your goals and budget, your design may include one or more of the regenerative systems below, integrated to support a productive, resilient property that evolves with your needs.

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Food

Food forests and orchards are productive, beautiful landscapes designed to provide abundant harvests while supporting healthy ecosystems.

A food forest is an edible landscape that functions like a natural woodland, where fruit and nut trees, berry shrubs, herbs, flowers, and perennial vegetables grow together in layers. An orchard focuses on thoughtfully arranged fruit and nut trees.

Both approaches offer a productive, lower-maintenance alternative to traditional landscaping, producing fresh food while improving soil health and creating valuable habitat for pollinators and wildlife.

Market gardens are highly productive vegetable gardens designed for efficient food growth.

Whether your goal is feeding your family or growing enough to sell locally, these gardens maximize harvests while remaining practical to maintain.

Passive solar greenhouses are designed to capture, store, and distribute the sun’s heat naturally.

They extend the growing season, reduce energy use, and allow you to harvest fresh produce for more months of the year.

Chickens, ducks, sheep, goats, cattle, bees, and other animals provide food, improve soil fertility, help manage pests, and contribute to a more resilient ecosystem.

Whether you’re raising a few backyard hens or planning an integrated farm, livestock systems can be designed to work in harmony with crops, gardens, orchards, and pastures, supporting both animal welfare and long-term productivity.

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Water

Rainwater harvesting collects water from roofs and stores it for later use in gardens, orchards, livestock, or landscaping.

Capturing rainfall reduces dependence on wells or municipal water while helping your property become more resilient during dry periods or wildfires.

Greywater systems reuse water from showers, bathroom sinks, and laundry to irrigate landscapes safely.

Instead of becoming waste, this water continues supporting trees, gardens, and healthy soils.

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Energy

We incorporate solar energy planning into your overall property design.

By evaluating your site’s sun exposure and future energy needs, we recommend locations and system sizes that complement your landscape while increasing energy independence.

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Designed Around the Life You Want

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Health and Wellness

Spend more time outdoors, grow nutrient-dense food, and enjoy landscapes that support both people and nature.

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Become More Self-Sufficient

Produce more of your own food, harvest rainwater, and generate renewable energy while reducing reliance on outside systems.

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Build Long-Term Resilience

Create a property designed to adapt to changing climates, rising costs, and future uncertainty.

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Leave a Legacy

Healthy soil, productive trees, thriving wildlife, and beautiful landscapes become lasting assets for future generations. As productive, resilient land becomes increasingly valuable, thoughtful design helps your property grow in both function and long-term worth.

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Proven Solutions for Resilient, Independent, and Healthy Living

An Architect’s Ambitious Vision for a Greenhouse

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Building a Four-Season Mediterranean Greenhouse in the Hills of Western Massachusetts

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Transforming Ancestral Land in Prince Edward Island

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5th World Modern Homestead Case Study

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5th World Passive Solar Greenhouse Case Study

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Regenerating Campus and Community: A Collaborative Vision at SAIT

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Contour Map Generator Helped This Homesteader Plan Her Dream Orchard

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Rainwater Harvesting: A Hands-On Learning Opportunity

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Out of the Ashes: How a Greenhouse Became a Symbol of Resilience

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A City Slicker’s Regenerative Hobby Farm

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Lights On When the Grid Goes Dark: The Off-Grid Advantage

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How a Regenerative Home Nurtures Family Life

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This Regenerative Estate Produces an Abundance of Water and Food

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How a Dwindling Community Orchard Was Saved

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Over 20 Years of Expertise Designing Future-Proof  Properties

Our design-build team led by Rob Avis comprises experts in the fields of agricultural, electrical, mechanical, ecological, and computer engineering—along with architecture and landscape design. We have over 20 years of experience building regenerative digital and physical solutions that enhance resilience and autonomy. Our expertise has transformed numerous homesteads and farms around the globe:

40,000+

Acres of land

100+

Properties

5

Continents

Why Clients Trust 5th World

There are a lot of people talking about passive solar and greenhouses. But it makes a huge difference when you’re working with people who actually understand the science. I couldn’t have done this greenhouse without Rob Avis and the team.

Amherst, Massachusetts
 

The [5th World] folks that we worked with onsite were fantastic. I needed people who really understood what we’re doing, why we’re doing A before B, and how it all works together. Highly, highly knowledgeable and personable staff.

Tayla Sloan

Manager at Foresters Financial, on the McCauley Community Orchard Project, Edmonton, Alberta

We have benefited from [the solutions] greatly. We definitely had another great harvest this year. I would say the yield improves every year. It’s not a farm, but it’s the closest we could get to making sure the kids are connected to food and what they’re eating, and experiencing that in real-time. It improves their food habits—they appreciate good food so much more.

Leane Tardif

Calgary, Alberta

The greenhouse is a turning point that’s opening up a new chapter in my life journey. It started as a practical pursuit and has evolved into the basis of how I spend time with my family and the discovery of my life’s calling: To learn more about regeneration and share its endless possibilities with others.

Dave Needham

British Columbia, South of Kamloops

Just seeing our kids—how they enjoy the food forest and how they like to be part of the excitement around what we’re able to grow—is a big thing for us. And, when the kids pick stuff, they want to eat it. So we’re pretty thrilled with how that’s impacting what they’re willing to eat and obviously we know how healthy it is for them.

Pierre Tardif

Calgary, Alberta

[Our favorite aspect of this lifestyle is] just being self-sufficient—not having to rely on anybody. We don’t know if the power goes out around us until we notice it’s pitch black and all the neighbors have their lights out.

Scott Daley

South of Calgary, Alberta

Rob [Avis, Chief Engineering Officer, 5th World] is a deep source of knowledge and is keen to share it. He was a good brainstormer and came up with innovative solutions, giving consideration to our local climate factors.

Kurt Deschner

Revelstoke, British Columbia

[Working with 5th World] was excellent. We were on a pretty tight deadline, and Rob and the team were very accommodating. They really worked hard over a very short period of time to get us the design and workable documents. So, we really appreciated that. [The team was] very responsive and professional.

Valerie Bassett

Basset Associates, Calgary, Alberta

Working with 5th World has been terrific. There are a lot of really important decisions that need to get made and need to get made right, but going through it one step at a time definitely made me feel a lot more comfortable. It’s nice to be able to work with people who have done it before and saves me from making mistakes—it’s been terrific.

Gil Greenberg

East of Hanover, Ontario

The turnaround times 5th World was able to work inside of and their willingness to share early-stage plans were really key. Also, the push they gave themselves to articulate the ‘why’ behind their design choices in plain language, especially in terms of regenerative landscapes.

Kristofer Kelly-Frere

J5, Calgary, Alberta

I never realized how healing a good team environment could be. [Working with 5th World] was just wonderful.

Elizabeth Daniels

Reimagine, Edmonton, Alberta

What was really important to us was that everyone needed to, not just bring their skill set, but embrace being part of a design team. And I felt that 5th World did that. I had confidence that the people from 5th World were going to have the expertise we needed to shape this project, but I also really love that they seemed to enjoy and thrive being in a design team. They were very collaborative by spirit.

Dean James Overall

School of Hospitality and Tourism, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, Alberta

Working with 5th World was a great experience. We truly valued the depth of data and research that was made available to us throughout the process.

Mary McAdams

Colorado

[The 5th World staff were] great, very professional. They would listen to my needs… everything I’ve asked for, they’ve done right away. I think they did a really good job.

Chad Leibel

Southwest of Edmonton, Alberta

It’s been phenomenal working with Kevin Dubienski (Senior Regenerative Property Design Consultant, 5th World). The conversations go really in depth, and I felt like we were on the same page right from the start. Kevin’s just a wealth of knowledge, so I was very pleased to get to work with him.

Ellen MacCormac

St. Margaret’s, Prince Edward Island

I don’t think I would’ve been able to pull [the greenhouse] off if I hadn’t met Rob. The way he thinks about things and solves problems showed me what’s possible and how to do it. It’s been a complete education, really.

Lic. Maurice L. O’Connor

Massachusetts

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