Food Guild Farmacy · Philippines
A guild farm design you can build — one circle at a time.
Start with a single 5 m × 5 m guild for clean food and everyday medicine. When it works, the same circle repeats across a whole acre using the master plan.
- One guild example
- Full 1-acre build plan
- Free master plan PDF
- Two product lines
The whole plan
Three things, nothing more
One guild as the small-scale example, one acre as the full design, and two product lines for whatever the household cannot eat.
One guild, 25 sqm
The worked example: one tree, five stacked layers, exact spacing from the centre, soil mounds and a three-phase planting schedule.
Open the guild example2 · Full designThe one-acre plan
The complete build map — guild circles, walkways, water line, trees, garden, house and the order of work for hired help.
Open the acre plan3 · Two product linesSauces & preserves
SAWSAWAN hot sauces from mango, pineapple and avocado, plus Farmacy Sauces — jams, dips and condiments from the same guilds.
See the product planMaster plan · free, no email
The full build plan for one acre
Scaled drawings, planting schedules for the four guild types, materials, and the order of work — the document to hand to whoever is building it.
Five living layers
What one guild is made of
Five stacked layers, from canopy to roots — one tree per 25 sqm, everything else kept as shrub, vine, root or ground cover. Each layer lists the example plants and the alternatives you can substitute.
Canopy
Jackfruit
15 alternativesUnderstory
Noni Fruit
11 alternativesShrub & Vine
Moringa (coppiced shrub) · Pigeon Pea · Winged Bean
18 alternativesGround Cover
Winter Melon · Japanese Purple Sweet Potato
10 alternativesHerb, Spice & Underground
Chili Pepper · Holy Basil & Thai Basil · Lemongrass · Ginger, Turmeric & Galangal · Indian Borage & Mint
15 alternatives
Guides & resources
Take it off the screen and into the soil
The master plan and the plot layout are free. Deeper written guides are licensed and emailed after payment.
- PDF · 2 pagesNew
Keeping the Harvest Handbook
Drying, fermenting, oil infusion, chutneys, fruit salsas and pickled eggs — the home methods, jars and labelling that turn a perishable harvest into months of good eating.
Request invoice · added Aug 2026 - PDF · 3 pagesNew
The Plant Guide
Every plant in the Living Plot guild and its swap-ins, what it does for the body, and the traditional Filipino way to prepare it — teas, juices, salabat and sawsawan.
Request invoice · added Aug 2026 - PDF · 2 pagesFree
The 25 sqm Plot Layout Guide
Exact planting distances from the centre, the one-tree rule, land preparation steps and the three-phase planting schedule for the Living Plot 5 m × 5 m worked example.
Get it free · added Jul 2026
Start here — free
Get the 25 sqm plot layout guide
Planting distances, the one-tree rule and the three-phase schedule — the whole worked example on two printable pages.
Browse the full resource libraryA long-held plan for a life more in tune with the earth
Food Guild Farmacy grew from a desire for a higher quality of life: less dependent on governments and corporations, more rooted in soil, family and community. Local lessons stay free, and the surplus policy is written down.