Bodhi means enlightenment.
We seek the reimagining of existing paradigms for community development, land management, and engineering. We are not afraid to take creative risks to advance these visionary goals, while maintaining a commitment to integrity and authenticity.
BODHI facilitates the strengthening of existing human habitats against today's adverse challenges — extreme weather, economic insecurity, food and water shortages, fraying social fabrics — while supporting the design and implementation of new land projects rooted in Permaculture, Holistic Management, and Regenerative Design. We leverage experience and expertise unusual among engineering and land-planning firms, and offer clients something different.
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High-quality design
Directly linked to resilient support systems — land, ecosystems, food, water, infrastructure.
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Education & training
Alternative land management rooted in regenerative agriculture, holistically managed livestock, and a less-is-more approach.
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Bridging urban & rural
Rural land investment that supports agrarian businesses, preserves working farmlands, and creates places for connection.
Small steps, collectively.
As individuals, we can all start moving in a direction that leads us to a more rooted society — while accepting that life is constantly changing and adaptation is necessary for growth.
Context is everything.
Understanding the climatic and environmental forces of a site, as well as the personal climate and holistic goals of the humans involved, is fundamental to long-term success.
From consumer to producer.
We invest in traditional pastimes, skills, and occupations that have supported humans for ages — particularly those that involve a relationship with nature.
Holistic decision-making.
Most of our hardest problems are complex. We use the Holistic Management Framework as a proven decision strategy balancing socioeconomic and environmental values.
Bobby Tucker, PE
Bobby is a regenerative farmer by trade and a senior water resource engineer with Tetra Tech, where he serves as lead strategist on the food–water–energy nexus. His professional resume spans water-related projects throughout the U.S. and beyond, with a focus on low-impact site development, green infrastructure, onsite wastewater, and the integration of sustainable agriculture as a holistic approach to watershed challenges.
For more than fifteen years he has operated Okfuskee Farm — a diversified farming experiment focused on agroforestry and regenerative agriculture for the Piedmont — refining techniques for using livestock as ecological management tools, integrating native perennials, and building soil through planned grazing, no-till cropping, and coppice forestry.
He founded BODHI in 2016 to bring together his two professions — engineer and farmer — and offer clients his expertise without the cost barriers a large engineering firm requires. He lives and farms in Silk Hope, NC with his wife Bronwyn and three young children.