As Green Wave celebrates cycles, it is time to re-meet KaytiBunny, co-creatrix of Permaculture Pinup.
We believe stories can change the world. Sometimes those stories begin with a seed. Sometimes with a butterfly. Sometimes with a portrait. Portraits That Pollinate is set to be an interview series celebrating women who are cultivating beauty, biodiversity, creativity, and regeneration in their own unique ways.
The series is growing naturally from Permaculture Pinup, a creative collaboration founded by Jivana and KaytiBunny under Green Wave. Together, they envisioned a project (Permaculture Pinup) that blends environmental education, artistic portraiture, and joyful experiences in nature.
While Permaculture Pinup is the nonprofit creative initiative, Jivana and Kayti now offer private Botanical Portrait Experiences, inspired by their own work. These are sessions that invite women to slow down, explore a living food forest, learn about regenerative living, and leave with meaningful portraits inspired by their connection to the natural world.
We sat down with KaytiBunny to learn more.
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🌸 Green Wave:
For someone discovering Permaculture Pinup for the first time, what is it?
🦋 KaytiBunny:
It’s really about changing the way we see ourselves in nature. People often think they’re signing up for photos, but what they’re really experiencing is an afternoon of learning, laughing, slowing down, and reconnecting with the living world. The portraits become a beautiful reminder of that experience.
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🌸 Green Wave:
Why combine portraits with permaculture?
🦋 KaytiBunny:
Because beauty can be educational. When someone spends time learning about cacao, mangoes, pollinators, medicinal herbs, or food forests, those plants become part of their story.
The portrait helps preserve that memory, and hopefully inspires them to plant something, support biodiversity, or simply spend more time outside. As I also host group food forest tours, I notice that people want to be playful anyway. This is just a session that allows the individual to be extra silly and playful since it is individualized.
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🌸 Green Wave:
What happens during a Botanical Portrait Experience?
🦋 KaytiBunny:
Every experience is unique because every season is unique.
We usually begin with a walk through the food forest, discovering whatever is thriving that day. We might talk about tropical fruits, medicinal plants, pollinators, composting, regenerative gardening, or even prepare a simple herbal recipe together. There’s plenty of time for conversation, curiosity, and play. Throughout the experience, we also create relaxed, natural portraits that celebrate each person’s personality and connection with nature. It’s not about posing perfectly.
It’s about feeling present.
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🌸 Green Wave:
Who are these experiences designed for?
🦋 KaytiBunny:
Women of every age. You don’t need gardening experience. You don’t need modeling experience.
If you love nature, want to learn something new, or simply feel called to spend an afternoon surrounded by plants, you’re exactly who we created this for.
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🌸 Green Wave:
Why “Portraits That Pollinate?”
🦋 KaytiBunny:
Because the portraits are only the beginning. What we really hope spreads are ideas. Maybe someone plants their first pollinator garden. Maybe they start composting. Maybe they discover a medicinal plant. Maybe they simply feel more connected to themselves and to nature.
Those ideas keep growing long after the photographs are taken.
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🌼 Five Questions That Pollinate
Every featured participant is invited to answer five simple questions.
🌱 What plant is speaking to you most right now?
🐝 What do you hope to pollinate into the world?
🌿 What regenerative habit are you cultivating?
💛 What surprised you most during your experience?
🌎 What is one idea you wish would sprout everywhere?
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Botanical Portrait Experiences
Private by appointment.
🌿 Approximately 3 hours
Includes:
🥭 Guided Food Forest Tour
🌿 Botanical & Permaculture Education
🦋 Pollinator & Biodiversity Exploration
🥤 Seasonal Beverage
📚 Educational Materials
📸 One professionally edited botanical portrait
Pricing
🌸 Private Botanical Portrait Experience
₡80,000
🐝 Optional Portraits That Pollinate Story Feature
Add ₡20,000
Includes a thoughtful interview and feature on the Green Wave blog and Permaculture Pinup (published only with your permission).
💚 Local and Costa Rican resident discounts are available. Please inquire when booking.
Contact KaytiBunny direct on WHATSAPP: +1.808.420.2698 to book a session!
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Meet Your Guides
🌺 KaytiBunny
KaytiBunny brings decades of experience in movement, performance, and creative expression. A lifelong entertainer, she has performed internationally through dance, hula hoop artistry, burlesque, and theatrical productions, with experience ranging from television appearances to dance companies in Hawaiʻi.
Today, she brings that same joyful energy to the natural world, helping women discover confidence, curiosity, and wonder through meaningful experiences in nature.
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🌿 JIVANA
Jivana is the founder and Executive Director of Green Wave, a nonprofit organization dedicated to regeneration, environmental education, and storytelling. She is a yoga teacher, PADI Mermaid Instructor, environmental educator, and published model whose work has appeared in the work of JIMON, books by artist Lorenzo Sperlonga, and was featured in the Czech edition of Playboy in 2006. For more than two decades, Jivana has developed projects that use creativity to inspire environmental stewardship. Through Permaculture Pinup, she hopes to remind people that beauty and biodiversity can flourish together.
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