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Landscape design for an abundant life.

A lush, vibrant vegetable garden with various leafy greens, flowering plants, and a small greenhouse in the background surrounded by trees.
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We help landowners design beautiful, productive landscapes that enrich everyday life through food, ecology & connection.

Our multidisciplinary approach combines landscape design, architectural thinking and food growing to create thoughtful, functional places shaped around your values and lifestyle.

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A young boy walking through a lush strawberry field carrying a white basket on a sunny day.
A lush garden scene with trees, flowering plants, and vegetable patches, including a willow tree, some flowering shrubs, and a birdhouse, under a cloudy sky.
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Our services

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A clear direction for your garden

A collaborative design process for homeowners seeking a beautiful, productive and practical plan tailored to their property, lifestyle and goals. Available remotely worldwide.

Garden Blueprint

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A comprehensive vision for your whole property

A strategic planning service for larger or more complex sites, integrating landscape, buildings, water, access, infrastructure and productive systems into one cohesive long-term plan.

Property Masterplan

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About Ben Strong

Pomona’s co-founder Ben Strong brings a rare combination of architectural expertise, ecological design thinking and hands-on growing experience to every project.

A registered architect, certified permaculture designer and experienced home grower, Ben is passionate about helping people create beautiful, productive landscapes that support a richer way of living.

His practical approach has attracted an audience of 30k+ on YouTube and has been featured on ABC’s Gardening Australia.

About us

Recent projects

Suburban permaculture property

An 800m² block transformed into a layered, productive landscape for food, family life and chickens.

Large rural homestead & orchard

A 7-acre rural property vision designed around greater self-sufficiency including a semi-commercial orchard.

A lush garden with raised flower beds, trees, and a seating area under a pergola.
Garden with blooming pink cherry blossom trees, various green shrubs, and colorful flowers, with a brick building and blue sky in the background.

Regional lifestyle property

A 1-acre property shaped into a considered landscape to enhance outdoor living and everyday beauty.

Multigenerational inner-city garden

A 900m² urban garden for refined elegance, privacy and meaningful connection across generations.

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A backyard garden with terraced stone and wood steps, lush green plants, flowering bushes, trees in the background, a small building with a patio, and a brick pathway.

Design for Abundance

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Download our complimentary 40+ page workbook to help you plan a productive, beautiful and low-maintenance food garden with insight and intention.

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