Adelphi is Kokonut’s first live reference farm.
Adelphi is a women-led, locally operated syntropic farm in Gonzalo, Sabana Grande de Boyá, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic, founded and operated by sisters Yanny and Neury Hernández. It is where Kokonut’s ideas meet real land: public-goods funding, regenerative agriculture, local operations, community infrastructure, farm records, MRV, forecasts, and shared Framework practices. Adelphi should be read as a reference implementation, not as proof that every future farm will reproduce the same economics, ecological outcomes, governance dynamics, or community effects.Inspect published farm records
Use the Kokonut Hub for current published records, farm activity, MRV events, harvest information, and project data.
Understand the evidence model
See how documented state, measurements, forecasts, attestations, and interpreted impact are kept separate.
This page is an orientation layer. Current published records belong in the Kokonut Hub. Detailed agronomy, infrastructure, forecasts, local context, founder history, and SDG evidence each have their own pages.
Documented state at a glance
These values are documented reference points in the current public repository.15,725 m²
Total mapped farm area.
13,838 m²
Documented agricultural area.
7 jobs
Jobs supported in the documented implementation.
110 hens
Documented free-range laying-hen component.
Public Nouns #69
Public-goods funding supported critical farm infrastructure.
5 primary SDG mappings
Adelphi currently reports against SDG 1, 2, 5, 8, and 15, with evidence requirements defined separately.
These figures should not be treated as a live dashboard. If a value changes over time, the Kokonut Hub and dated source records should take precedence over a static summary page.
How to read claims about Adelphi
The farm pages use the evidence vocabulary established in the MRV methodology.The most important distinction on Adelphi pages is actual vs. forecast. A planned yield, modeled revenue, or projected impact remains a forecast until supported by recorded outcomes.
Project identity
Why Adelphi matters to Kokonut
Adelphi is valuable because multiple parts of the Kokonut system can be tested against the same real farm.Real-world farm operations
Agronomy, irrigation, planting, poultry, nursery work, maintenance, labor, and market activity happen under real operating constraints.
Public-goods-funded infrastructure
Public Nouns Proposal #69 helped fund critical physical infrastructure rather than only research or software.
Shared Framework practices
Adelphi uses common development phases, data structures, regenerative principles, MRV practices, and impact-reporting logic.
Inspectable evidence
Farm observations, measurements, records, public data, and attestations can be connected to claims with explicit evidence classes.
Community infrastructure
The farm includes education and gathering infrastructure alongside production, biodiversity, and operator livelihoods.
Replication learning
Adelphi generates lessons that can improve the Framework and help test what is actually reusable when another farm enters the system.
Adelphi demonstrates that these components can coexist in one operating context. The next test is whether the shared infrastructure remains useful when applied to another farm without copying Adelphi’s local conditions.
The founders and origin
Yanny and Neury Hernández are sisters, single mothers, landowners, and the founders/operators of Adelphi. Their family history is rooted in agriculture. As adults, Yanny built a career in the pharmaceutical industry and Neury became a professional manicurist, while both retained a long-term goal of returning to land stewardship. In 2022, they purchased land in Gonzalo with the intention of building an agricultural future tied to family legacy and community benefit. The major barrier documented in their story was not whether the land could produce. It was the capital and infrastructure required to turn ownership and intention into an operating farm. Public Nouns Proposal #69 helped fund critical infrastructure, allowing Adelphi to develop as both a productive farm and a public-good-aligned learning site.Read Yanny and Neury's full story
The background page covers their family history, land purchase, the meaning of the name Adelphi, community purpose, biodiversity work, and the human context behind the farm.
The physical farm system
Adelphi combines production, ecological restoration, on-site inputs, animals, and community infrastructure. The documented system includes:- short-cycle vegetables;
- passion fruit and Indian yam;
- coconut trees and native agroforestry species;
- 110 free-range laying hens;
- a nursery for native and at-risk species;
- bamboo-derived biochar;
- biological input production;
- syntropic plots;
- a multipurpose training and community gazebo;
- farm-data and MRV workflows.
See the physical system in detail
Review crop beds, biodiversity, nursery operations, poultry, biofactory, soil practices, infrastructure, geospatial layout, and community facilities.
Production is organized across multiple time horizons
Adelphi uses a diversified production model rather than depending on one crop cycle.
This mix is intended to connect near-term production with longer-term perennial systems and ecological regeneration.
Actual harvest performance should be evaluated from farm records rather than inferred from the planting model.
Forecast snapshot — not actual performance
The detailed Crops & Harvest Forecast models production and revenue using explicit assumptions.
The forecast currently uses a 15% crop-loss assumption and 5 lettuce harvests per year.
The planning model also assigns 10% of projected gross crop revenue to public-goods activities. At modeled performance, that would equal approximately $14,911.09/year.
That value should be described as a forecasted allocation, not as money already realized or distributed.
Inspect the full forecast and assumptions
Review formulas, crop counts, loss assumptions, prices, sensitivity, forecast risks, and the forecast-vs-actual feedback loop.
How evidence moves through Adelphi
The farm uses several evidence sources because different claims require different kinds of support.
Read the MRV evidence standard →
Framework status
The current public documentation places Adelphi in Phase II — Production & Regeneration.Phase IV should not be interpreted as a final stage that starts after production. MRV runs across the farm lifecycle and becomes more useful as time-series records accumulate.
SDG alignment is an evidence-mapping exercise
Adelphi currently focuses on five primary Sustainable Development Goals.
Read the detailed SDG evidence map →
The current SDG page treats SDG 13 — Climate Action as a co-benefit rather than a primary Adelphi SDG until carbon methodology is operationalized and reported consistently.
What Adelphi can demonstrate today
Adelphi can support several grounded conclusions without overreaching.A real farm can use shared coordination infrastructure
Public-goods funding, Framework practices, farm operations, data records, and contribution systems can coexist around one locally operated project.
Regeneration and production can be designed together
The physical system combines food production, perennial crops, poultry, biodiversity, soil inputs, nursery work, and community infrastructure.
Farm claims can become more inspectable
The MRV model creates a path from observations and records toward review, publication, attestation, and interpretation.
Forecasts can become testable
Crop and revenue projections can be compared with harvest actuals instead of remaining permanent assumptions.
Local leadership can remain central
Yanny and Neury remain the founders and operators of the farm while shared infrastructure supports rather than replaces local execution.
One implementation can generate reusable lessons
Adelphi can improve the Framework, MRV practices, data structures, and future farm onboarding even before multi-farm replication is proven.
What Adelphi does not prove yet
- that every future farm can use the same crop model;
- that forecast revenues will be realized;
- that every reported ecological benefit has been independently certified;
- that on-chain attestations validate scientific conclusions;
- that a second farm will replicate Adelphi without new local adaptation;
- that the current Framework has already solved multi-farm scaling.
Adelphi’s strongest role is as a live place to test, measure, learn, and improve.
Explore Adelphi deeper
Problem & Solution
The local conditions Adelphi is designed to address and how the farm responds.
Crops, Biodiversity & Infrastructure
The physical production system: plots, crops, poultry, nursery, biofactory, soil practices, and community infrastructure.
Crops & Harvest Forecast
Production assumptions, yield models, revenue forecasts, risk, and forecast-vs-actual reconciliation.
Background Story
Yanny and Neury Hernández, their relationship to the land, the origin of Adelphi, and the human context behind the farm.
Sustainable Development Goals
How the five primary SDG mappings connect to evidence requirements rather than labels alone.
Live Data Hub
Inspect current published farm records and actual performance data.
Use the overview to understand the system, the deeper pages to understand each claim, and the Kokonut Hub to inspect current published records.