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Moab Permaculture Site History
In , Emily Niehaus (Moab City Mayor and Community Rebuilds Director) and Roslynn Brain McCann of (USU’s Environment and Society Department and USU Extension Sustainability director) collaborated to host a permaculture workshop with permaculture design instructor Joel Glanzberg of New Mexico. Following this workshop, Jeremy Lynch (In Transition Permaculture) was hired as a USU Extension Sustainability intern to help bring permaculture to the USU Moab campus.
Jeremy and Roslynn secured grant funding to bring permaculture designer Jason Gerhardt (Real Earth Designs) to Moab to facilitate a community visioning process for the campus and to develop and implement a design plan. USU Moab Dean, Steve Hawks, provided full support for the permaculture design plans on campus, and within a few short years, the team installed permaculture gardens on two-thirds of USU Moab’s Campus.
As a collaboration with the USU Moab permaculture project, a Moab Bee Inspired Gardens Initiative was launched in the Moab community “To inspire efforts toward pollinator health, water conservation, and food and forage systems using gardens, workshops and resources in a way that benefits our community and ecosystems.” The 13 gardens to-date installed in and around Moab include a total of 82 trees and 1, plants. These trees store enough carbon to offset 4, miles of driving an average car. Along with carbon storage, these gardens also have great value in providing flowers for local pollinators, native species habitat, and environmental education.
Given the success of the USU Moab permaculture garden, permaculture design was incorporated into the new USU-Moab campus feasibility study with a dedicated chapter on the topic. The design includes % rainwater-fed gardens, plant guilds, and infiltration basins among other permaculture concepts. The feasibility study can be found here. The USU Moab permaculture gardens design plan was also featured in Toby Hemenway’s most recent and final book, entitled The Permaculture City. See alovex.co for more information.
A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land
by Rob Avis, Takota CoenandMichelle Avis, foreword by Geoff Lawton
The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed.
Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools to help you:
- Clarify your vision, values, and resources
- Diagnose your land and resources for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
- Design your land and resources to meet your vision and values
- Implement the right design to enhance your strengths and improve your weakest resource
- Establish benchmarks to monitor the sustainability and success of your development.
When designing a regenerative permaculture property, too many land stewards suffer from option paralysis, a lack of integrated holistic design, fruitless trial-and-error attempts, wasted money, and the frustration that results from too much information and no context.
Building Your Permaculture Property is the essential guide for everyone looking to cut through the noise and establish an ecologically regenerative, financially sustainable, enjoyable, and thriving permaculture property, anywhere in the world.
Click here to view an excerpt and here to see the table of contents.
About the Authors
Rob Avis, PEng, co-owns Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. He is co-author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting and lives in Alberta, Canada.
Takota Coen is a permaculture educator, Red Seal Carpenter, second-generation organic farmer, and co-owner and operator of Coen Farm, an award-winning acre permaculture farm that produces nutrient-dense raw-milk-fed pork, grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, forest garden berries, and herbal teas. He lives near Edmonton, Alberta.
Michelle Avis, PEng, co-owns Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. She is co-author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting and lives in Alberta, Canada.
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7 Smartphone Apps That’ll Make You A Better Permaculture Farmer and Designer
Can you imagine your life as a permaculture farmer without a chainsaw… electric fence… plastic pipe… battery-powered tools…?
Or can you imagine your life without being able to Google something when you have a burning question about your chickens, trees, various plant problems…?
Well, it wasn’t all that long ago, and some of you can probably remember a time when we didn’t have all this ‘cheap’ infrastructure and ‘easy’ access to knowledge of how to do things.
A lot of things we take for granted these days are relatively recent technological innovations. The chainsaw as we know it today, the plastic pipe, and the electric fence, were all novelties in the sixties, the personal computer of any real use only appeared in the eighties, and Google emerged only in the late nineties.
So, you just need to go back a generation and suddenly you are in the Dark Ages, a world where our “distant ancestors” were spending their days chasing farm animals in order to keep them contained in one location, cutting big trees with an axe and their bare hands, didn’t have computers or mobile phones, and lived in blissful ignorance because they couldn’t Google something…
Joking aside, I’m only a millennial myself, and the technological development just during my lifetime has been staggering, not to mention all that my year-old grandma has experienced. She went from oxen pulling plows to autonomous farm robots that use AI and machine learning to plow a mathematically perfect field of straight rows.
Now, no matter what your stance is on all this revolutionary tech, if you’re reading this, you’re using it, and, as a permaculture farmer, you’re a direct beneficiary of the increased productivity and efficiency it has provided us all with. There is no way around it, you can go all Amish on me, but even they are using diesel-powered generators these days.
Although there are many different tech tools that we farmers today have at our disposal, like to use, and find absolutely essential, in this article I want to focus on one very specific but very versatile tool, one that fits into your pocket and which has, for me, radically changed the permaculture game – the humble smartphone.
Permaculture Apps and Technology
Today, almost all of us have a smartphone, and each of these tiny devices literally contains the sum total of all world knowledge.
You can learn almost anything on the ‘University of YouTube’ by taking a class from a ‘professor’ who went through the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ and now shares his or her practical life experience.
You can get answers to any question and any problem, wherever, whenever you need it. Honestly, often I find myself Googling something with my dirty hands as I’m working. I would be planting my trees and be like “what was that mature size of this tree again?” or “what did they say, how deep should the hole be for this tree?”
But using smartphones goes far beyond just the basic search function, there are many other features that are almost like something from Star Trek rather than Here, I want to share a list of some of my favorite smartphone apps (for iPhone, sorry Android people!) that help me design, learn about my surroundings and farm more effectively – ultimately becoming a better permaculturist…
So, in no particular order, here are the apps…
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Most people passionate about living sustainably and harmoniously with nature will eventually stumble upon the system of Permaculture, it’s hard not to, it&#;s a world-wide phenomenon and it’s growing!
If you’re reading this, then you’re one of these people! Some of you will eventually study Permaculture, and then, on graduating, go through what we term the “Permaculture Effect”, a sense of deep and profound inner change or realisation, and a passion that follows from there, to go out there and make a difference, to stop being part of the problem and be part of the solution!
So, then, where to begin?
The simple answer is, in your own back yard (if you have one!)
If you don’t have a backyard, a courtyard garden or even a balcony garden can be productive, and do still make a difference, every little effort towards helping the planet makes a difference, even of it just serves to maintain your connection to nature. If you don’t even have a balcony, there is the possibility of taking part in a community garden, getting your own plot, and doing your gardening there. In some areas the waiting list for community gardens can be long, while in other areas, there’s surplus free space with no-one claiming it. Another possibility is to volunteer to to design and maintain a friend’s backyard garden if they’re not interested in gardening and not using it for anything. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
One of the important things you learn in Permaculture is design, for Permaculture is ultimately a multidisciplinary design system.
If you’ve done the course, you should be able to handle a basic design, but that’s not where people get stuck. The biggest obstacles are taking the first step, believing in yourself, believing you can do it, trusting it will work!
In this article, I’ll assume you’re already familiar with the Permaculture design principles, and I’ll show you a systematic way to break down the whole design and construction process to something that’s manageable and not so frightening. This approach was all learned from first-hand experience, diving head first into my garden project, a full-time three month solo effort that transformed an average Melbourne home backyard into a demonstration Permaculture garden that is a living proof of concept and thriving success, which has seen several garden tours and hundreds of people since it was first built two years ago.
By sharing this information, I hope to encourage more Permaculture graduates to dive in and make it happen!
1. What is a Permaculture Garden
The first step in building a Permaculture garden is to figure out what a Permaculture garden is to you. This might sound strange, but the fact is that there is no one way to build any type of garden, and you’ll have to have some idea of what you want to create.
Having a finalised design means you have something to build, it ensures that you have committed your ideas to paper, and to do this they have to have some structure and form. If you’re just entertaining vague ideas, you could end up procrastinating and never designing anything, let alone building something tangible.
Designs encourage decisiveness, some people like leaving their options open, which means nothing gets done. I’ve seen people tell me they can’t start building there because they might do this and that in the future, and they might do something else somewhere else, so through indecision nothing ever happens. Decide what it is that you can do, and want to do, right now, not in some distant possible future, but at this very moment, then make the commitment to do it on a certain day and date, preferably now. If you defer tasks and projects to some unspecified future date, they most likely won’t ever be done…
Any garden designed with Permaculture principles, that is, it emulates patterns in nature, by definition, is a Permaculture garden. What you need to decide at the outset is the degree of incorporation of Permaculture principles in garden design.
- The size of the garden will in part dictate this, the scale of the project, it can be anywhere between a balcony container garden all the way through to a broad-acre food forest.
- You need to decide ‘how much Permaculture’ you wish to incorporate into the design, whether your garden looks like a traditional vegetable garden with a few Permaculture design features, or a no-holds-barred full-scale over-stacked food forest design.
2. Principles of Permaculture, Emulating Nature
The next step is to decide which Permaculture design principles you wish to use, or to which degree you emphasise them.
Also, look at how you will choose to emulate nature in your Permaculture design.
Here are some points to consider:
Soil preservation – how do you intend to protect the soil?
- Mulches, ground cover plants, etc.
- Trying to maintain bare soil in the garden works against nature, because nature aims to fill the space with anything to protect the soil, and the plants that do this best are pioneer plants, often disrespectfully referred to as “weeds”.
- Bare soil will be compacted by rain, which will degrade the soil structure, as well as wash away the top layer!
- No-dig gardening preserve the soil, as turning the soil destroys the soil structure and exposes the deeper soil layers to the sun’s UV light and heat, which kills the soil biota (living things in the soil).
- Garden beds can aid in maintaining good soil, as long as they are a size you can reach into easily so you never step into the garden beds. Stepping on the soil destroys the soils structure by compacting it, preventing air and water penetration to the plants roots, which affects plant health, restricts plant growth and reduces productivity.
Rebuilding soil – if your soil is pretty well dead, very little organic content and humus, if it is compacted, or damaged in any way, it has to be repaired. Soil building activities will be required to remedy the situation.
- You can use plants with deep tap roots such as fenugreek and dandelion to break up the soil
- If absolutely necessary, you can dig or fork the ground, once only, to loosen it up, then mulch it over to cover it up and protect it.
- Composting over the soil can be used to bring life back into it, either utilising compost heaps, or more easily and quickly, using the technique of sheet composting.
- Use of green manures, plants grown then chopped down afterwards, to generate lots of biomass to mulch the soil with, which will rot down to create humus. Broad beans work well in colder climates, and they add nitrogen to the soil, as do all legumes (bean/pea family). Any strong growing annual plants work well, just cut them down before they go to seed if they aren’t vegetables.
- Don’t step on soil in your garden beds, use no-dig designs, and use earthworms to do your digging, they dig far more efficiently than you!
Plant stacking – stacking in vertical space
- Plants grow in nature in a “stacked” layout, with trees forming the canopy, shrubs below them, then herbaceous plants below these, and ground cover plants at the lowest level, with root crops beneath the ground, and vines growing vertically in the background. Using this layout allows a greater utilisation of space, and greater productivity for a given garden area.
Succession planting – stacking in time
- Nature regenerates plant growth to protect soil – plants are replaced as other ones die off. If you organise the planting new plants while existing plants are coming to the end of their fruiting/productive cycle, you can “stack plants in time” to get extended cropping throughout the growth season, without having bare spaces in the garden, or waiting as long for plants to fruit.
Edge Effect – in nature, the edges of any ecosystem, where the environment transitions from one form to another, is the most productive.
- If you wanted to emphasise the Edge Effect Principle, you would perhaps lean toward curved edge garden beds, mandala design garden beds, or just use a large number of smaller rectangular beds.
Microclimate – groups of plants planted together create differences in temperature, shade and humidity in comparison to the surrounding area, better supporting plant growth.
- Use plants growing together to protect each other from the elements (wind, sun, etc). This will help them survive and create a more resilient garden. Remember, one plant on its own in a bare garden bed is like a man standing in the middle of a desert under a burning hot sun!
Vertical gardening – plants don’t only grow flat on the ground, they can grow up vertical surfaces to make better use of space. Here are some ideas:
- Various vines such as grapes, kiwi fruit, passionfruit can be grown over trellises, arches, fences, and pergolas.
- Cucurbits, such as pumpkins, rockmelons, watermelons, zucchini, gourds, loofahs can be grown vertically up a wire mesh (with widely spaced mesh big enough to fit hands through) supported by posts.
- Espaliered trees can be used along fences or narrow spaces to maximise the productivity of large unused vertical spaces.
Water gardens – aquatic ecosystems are the most productive ecosystems of all, and they have many design functions.
- Can be used to grow edible aquatic plants, such as water chestnuts, sagittaria, lotus, Vietnamese mint, and many others.
- Can support aquatic or amphibious life, that is, fish or frogs.
- Large ponds can support ducks
- A pond can be used as the water collection area from a reed bed filter system that is used to clean recycled grey water
Mono-cultures, Poly-cultures and Companion Plants – nature favours biodiversity, and a range of plants mixed together, in the right combinations can support each other’s growth and increase productivity,
- Companion planting can be used to stimulate plant growth and productivity, increase resilience to pests and diseases, hide your plants from pests or mask their scent to make them harder for pests to find, and attract beneficial insects which act as pollinators, such as bees, or attract beneficial predatory insects that will eat pest insects, such as ladybirds, lacewings and hoverflies.
- Monocultures make plants more accessible to pests, and prevent the use of companion planting or plant stacking. Emulate nature by mixing plants up, if you have to go to some effort to find them, so will the pests that eat them!
- Monocultures of annuals take more work, effort and record keeping, as planting one type of annuals in the same spot for more than one season will lead to nutrient depletion, and susceptibility to pests and diseases. The choice is either to perform crop rotation, and keep accurate records of what grew where and when, and what goes where next, or you can just take the easier natural approach, embrace polyculture, and grow everything everywhere.
3. Getting Started
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome is building a Permaculture garden is starting the actual construction. Often people may agonise over the design for months to get it perfect, then come to a complete standstill when it comes to beginning the project.
The critical human factor is motivation, overcoming the inertia of taking on a big challenge. A big challenge is easier when it’s broken down into smaller and manageable parts. There is wisdom in the old joke “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!” I can’t overemphasise the importance of starting small. Even if you’re ambitious and motivated, should you come across any delays, hurdles or obstacles, there’s the chance of seeing the task as too daunting and simply giving up.
If you select a small task to complete, you make it easier for yourself, and the successful completion of each simple task will bolster confidence, self esteem, and provide the momentum for the next task which follows.
My strategies for getting started are as follows:
- Design BIG, start small &#; know what it is that you ultimately want to build, use an all-encompassing design that factors in all important design aspects, then construct it one small piece at a time
- Determine the scale of the project – whether it&#;s a container garden or a food forest, get a clear idea how big the garden will be. Factor in the maintenance for the garden too. A full-blown food forest, very closely resembling nature, will require far less maintenance and upkeep than an urban container garden. This becomes clearer when you think about root space, water availability, plant size, etc. Remember, nobody needs to water forests, prune them, or fertilise them!
- Determine the critical design elements – these include water, wind sun, orientation of garden, proximity to house, location of plants according to requirements. Also, remember to plant in the correct season, that is, not mid-summer!
- Modular design – a highly efficient way to build a large garden is to start small, use repeatable units (including guilds) that can be easily replicated to extend the garden to the desired size.
- Design element size priority- a critical construction priority is to put in the biggest elements on the design first, then design around them. For example, in a stacked food forest design, trees go in first, then the irrigation is put into place. Then all the progressively smaller plants are planted around the trees and the location of the irrigation lines. The smallest elements, such as ground cover plants are planted last. The rationale of this is process is that you can’t dig tree sized holes in garden beds filled with little plants, and installing irrigation in a planted up bed is one of the most time consuming and painful exercises if you’re trying not to damage all the plans in the garden beds…
In summary, breaking down the task of building a garden from scratch into small, manageable pieces, a garden bed at a time, with a complete overall design to guide your efforts, makes it far less daunting than it initially appears at the start. You’re more likely to start something if it looks more like a molehill than a mountain! Once you&#;ve successfully completed a project like your own Permaculture garden, you’ll look back and be glad you made the effort. If you’ve done a Permaculture course, I urge you to take that step and apply what you’ve learned. Nothing reinforces knowledge like the practical application of it. We learn best by doing!
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"A book to take the reader from thinking into action, Building Your Permaculture Property offers an excellent addition to permaculture theory and provides a key resource for all designers. By confronting and working through real, thorny, and often invisible human and landscape problems â a terrain in which they have earned their share of cuts and bruises â the authors slice through the Gordian knot that stops most people from realizing their home and nature visions through a powerful design system. Their vibrant and positive attitude yoked to psychological insight harnesses clean language and a keen focus on process to cut a neat furrow of systematic thinking through the complexity of living systems assessment, design, and management. Offering a window on digital design tools, clever illustrations, and examples from the demanding world of cold prairie farming, the authors have created a well-marked pathway for the advanced learner to reach professional outcomes."
â Peter Bane, executive director, Permaculture Institute of North America, author, The Permaculture Handbook
"As well as being a valuable tool for individuals in their permaculture journeys, Building Your Permaculture Property represents another step towards permaculture being recognized beyond its widespread misconception of being simply a fashionable form of organic gardening. It highlights the need for permaculture design thinking in creating resilient, regenerative, landscapes and communities. Through this work, Rob, Michelle, and Takota make a valuable contribution to the ongoing evolution of permaculture thinking and action."
â David Holmgren, permaculture co-originator
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â Richard Perkins, author, Regenerative Agriculture, owner, Ridgedale Farm AB and Making Small Farms Work AB
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â Curtis Stone, farmer, consultant, and author, The Urban Farmer
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â Catherine Wanek, co-founder, Builders Without Borders, author and photographer, The New Strawbale Home and The Hybrid House, and co- editor, The Art of Natural Building
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â Mark Anielski, economist and author, The Economics of Happiness and An Economy of Well-Being
"If you are serious about designing a permaculture property, this book has to be in your toolkit. The authors offer an accessible and current guide to the complexity of good design based on years of practical experience."
â Morag Gamble, Permaculture Education Institute
"A critical book for those at the beginning of planning their permaculture property. Michelle, Takota, and Rob have spent years developing their five-step permaculture process and have now boiled it down into one concise manual. This book does an amazing job of breaking down and simplifying a complex design process and will get you on your way to building your dream permaculture property! Practical, concise, and an essential read!"
â Jen Feigin, ex-director, The Endeavour Centre
"A life well-lived includes leaving the land better than we found it. This fivestep design manual jumpstarts that journey to a foregone conclusion, laying out a thoughtful process for making permaculture principles your own. Every farm, every ranch, and every homestead benefit from thinking deeper about how human intent engages with the places we're blessed to call home. Restoring integrity to degraded ground is our primal mission now as a species. Restoring diversity means planting many more trees. Restoring ecological posterity begins with listening to the heart of the mother and then reading this book."
â Michael Phillips, Holistic Orchard Network, author, The Holistic Orchard
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â Zach Loeks, director, The Ecosystem Solution Institute, author, The Edible Ecosystem Solution and The Permaculture Market Garden
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â Nicholas Burtner, founder and director, The School of Permaculture
A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land
by Rob Avis, Takota CoenandMichelle Avis, foreword by Geoff Lawton
The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed.
Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools to help you:
- Clarify your vision, dating sites for permaculture, values, and resources
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- Design your land and resources to meet your vision and values
- Implement the right design to enhance your strengths and improve your weakest resource
- Establish benchmarks to monitor the sustainability and success of your development.
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Building Your Permaculture Property is the essential guide for everyone looking to cut through the noise and establish an ecologically regenerative, financially sustainable, enjoyable, and thriving permaculture property, anywhere in the world.
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About the Authors
Rob Avis, PEng, co-owns Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. He is co-author of dating sites for permaculture Rainwater Harvesting and lives in Alberta, Canada.
Takota Coen is a permaculture educator, Red Seal Carpenter, second-generation organic farmer, and co-owner and operator of Coen Farm, an award-winning acre permaculture farm that produces nutrient-dense raw-milk-fed pork, grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, forest garden berries, and herbal teas. He lives near Edmonton, Alberta.
Michelle Avis, PEng, co-owns Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. She is co-author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting and lives in Alberta, Canada.
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If you’re anything like me then you find books to be a great source of education and inspiration. That’s why I keep my shelves full of great books.
Here is a list of 21 great permaculture books that will help you take your permaculture homestead to a whole new level.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Horace Mann
1. Practical Permaculture
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2. The Resilient Farm and Homestead
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“Inaction quickly consumes a lifetime. Be curious, be bold, pay close attention to the world in front of you. And start trying stuff.”
― Author Ben Falk
“And relatively self-reliant households are the basic building block of any culture that is viable over the long term without requiring war (stealing of resources) to sustain itself. No democratic civilization can last long if it is built upon a citizenry that consume more than they produce; that’s debt and debt is inherently unsustainable and undemocratic. If our goal is a peaceful, just society, self-reliance at the home and community levels must be a central focus of our lives”
― Author Ben Falk
3. Plant Partners
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“It was once thought that the odor of certain companion plants deterred pests from feeding, dating sites for permaculture. For example, commonly recommended companion plants, such as marigold, peppermint, sage, and thyme, were often chosen for their strong fragrance. But over many years, multiple studies have shown that the scents of these plants don’t necessarily repel pests. Instead, further data are suggesting that these odors mask the volatile chemicals emitted from host plants. This points to the fact that the mechanisms of how certain companion plants deter pests (or don’t, dating sites for permaculture, as the case may be) are still being researched and debated among scientists. However, plenty of pest-deterring strategies are backed by solid scientific research, and those are the ones we will consider here.”
― Author Jessica Walliser
4. The Grafter’s Handbook
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5. Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
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— AuthorDavid Holmgren
6. The Permaculture Handbook
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“The emergence of garden farms is at hand. Under the pressure of necessity as unemployment rippled through the economy, millions of North Americans turned to gardening or expanded their gardens in as evidenced by a 40% increase in vegetable seed sales. Urban homesteading is spawning its own literature as energy descent forces more and more households to adapt in place. With income constrained and energy and materials shortages looming, the only resources capable of filling dating sites for permaculture gap in livelihood are imagination, information, and knowledge, in particular, a deeper understanding of the material cycles and energy flows of nature. For that understanding, we look to permaculture, a language derived from the patterns of the world around us.”
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7. Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
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Most people passionate about living sustainably and harmoniously with nature will dating sites for permaculture stumble upon the system of Permaculture, it’s hard not to, it&#;s a world-wide phenomenon and it’s growing!
If you’re reading this, then you’re one of these people! Some of you will eventually study Permaculture, and then, on graduating, go through what we term the “Permaculture Effect”, a sense of deep and profound inner change or realisation, and a passion that follows from there, to go out there and make a difference, to stop being part of the problem and be part of the solution!
So, then, where to begin?
The simple answer is, in your dating sites for permaculture back yard (if you have one!)
If you don’t have a backyard, a courtyard garden or even a balcony garden can be productive, and do still make a difference, every little effort towards helping the planet makes a difference, even of it just serves to maintain your connection to nature. If you don’t even have a balcony, there is the possibility of taking part in a community garden, getting your own plot, and doing your gardening there. In some areas the waiting list dating sites for permaculture community gardens can be long, while in dating sites for permaculture areas, there’s surplus free space with no-one claiming it. Another possibility is to volunteer to to design and maintain a friend’s backyard garden if they’re not interested in gardening and not using it for anything. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
One of the important things you learn in Permaculture is design, for Permaculture is ultimately a multidisciplinary design system.
If you’ve dating sites for permaculture the course, you should be able to handle a basic design, dating sites for permaculture, but that’s not where people get stuck. The biggest obstacles are taking the first step, believing in yourself, believing you can do it, trusting dating sites for permaculture will work!
In this article, I’ll assume you’re already familiar with the Permaculture design principles, and I’ll show you a systematic way to break down the whole design and construction process to something that’s manageable and not so frightening. This approach was all learned from first-hand experience, diving head first into my garden project, a full-time three month solo effort that transformed an average Melbourne home backyard into a demonstration Permaculture garden that is a living proof of concept and thriving success, which has seen several garden tours and hundreds of people since it was first built two years ago.
By sharing this information, I hope to encourage more Permaculture graduates to dive in and make it happen!
1. What is a Permaculture Garden
The first step in building a Permaculture garden is to figure out what a Permaculture dating sites for permaculture is to you. This might sound strange, but the fact is that there is no one way to build any type of garden, and you’ll have to have some idea of what you want to create.
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Designs encourage decisiveness, some people like leaving their options open, which means nothing gets done. I’ve seen dating sites for permaculture tell me they can’t start building there because they might do this and that in the future, and they might do something else somewhere else, so through indecision nothing ever happens. Decide what it is that you can do, and want to do, right now, not in some distant possible future, but at this very moment, then make the commitment to do it on a certain day and date, preferably now. If you defer tasks and projects to some unspecified future date, they most likely won’t ever be done…
Any garden designed with Permaculture principles, that is, it emulates patterns in nature, by definition, dating sites for permaculture, is a Permaculture garden. What you need dating sites for permaculture decide at the outset is the degree of incorporation of Permaculture principles in dating sites for permaculture design.
- The size of the garden will in part dictate this, the scale of dating sites for permaculture project, it can be anywhere between a balcony container garden all the way through to a dating sites for permaculture food forest.
- You need to decide ‘how much Permaculture’ you wish to incorporate into the design, whether your garden looks like a traditional vegetable garden with a few Permaculture design features, or a no-holds-barred full-scale over-stacked food forest design.
2. Principles of Permaculture, Emulating Nature
The next step is to decide which Permaculture design principles you wish to use, or to which degree you emphasise them.
Also, look at how you will dating sites for permaculture to emulate nature in your Permaculture design.
Here are some points to consider:
Soil preservation – how do you intend to protect the soil?
- Mulches, ground cover dating sites for permaculture, etc.
- Trying to maintain bare soil in the garden works against nature, because nature aims to fill the space with anything to protect the soil, and the plants that do this best are pioneer plants, often disrespectfully referred to as “weeds”.
- Bare soil will be compacted by rain, which will degrade the soil structure, as well as wash away the top layer!
- No-dig gardening preserve the soil, as turning the soil destroys the soil structure and exposes the deeper soil layers to the sun’s UV light and heat, which kills the soil biota (living things in the soil).
- Garden beds can aid in maintaining good soil, as long as they are a size you can reach into easily so you never step into the garden beds. Stepping on the soil destroys the soils structure by compacting it, preventing air and water penetration to the plants roots, which affects plant health, restricts plant growth and reduces productivity.
Rebuilding soil – if your soil is pretty well dead, very little organic content and humus, if it is compacted, or damaged in any way, it has to be repaired. Soil building activities will be required to remedy the situation.
- You can use plants with dating sites for permaculture tap roots such as fenugreek and dandelion to break up the soil
- If absolutely necessary, you can dig or fork the ground, once only, to loosen it up, then mulch it over to cover it up and protect it.
- Composting over the soil can be used to bring life back into it, either utilising compost heaps, or more easily and quickly, using the technique of sheet composting.
- Use of green manures, plants grown then chopped down afterwards, to generate lots of biomass to mulch the soil with, which will rot down to create humus. Broad beans work well in colder climates, and they add nitrogen to the soil, as do all legumes (bean/pea family). Any strong growing annual plants work well, just cut them down before they go to seed if they aren’t vegetables.
- Don’t step on soil in your garden beds, use no-dig designs, and use earthworms to do your digging, they dig far more efficiently than you!
Plant stacking – stacking in vertical space
- Plants grow in nature in a “stacked” layout, with trees forming the canopy, shrubs below them, then herbaceous plants below these, and ground cover plants at the lowest level, with root crops beneath the ground, and vines growing vertically in the background. Using this layout allows a greater utilisation of space, and greater productivity for a given garden area.
Succession planting – stacking in time
- Nature regenerates plant growth to protect soil – plants are replaced as other ones die off. If you organise the planting new plants while existing plants are coming to the end of their fruiting/productive cycle, you can “stack plants in time” to get extended cropping throughout the growth season, without having bare spaces in the garden, or waiting as long for plants to fruit.
Edge Effect – in nature, the edges of any ecosystem, where the environment transitions from one form to another, is the most productive.
- If you wanted to emphasise the Edge Effect Principle, you would perhaps lean toward curved edge garden beds, mandala design garden beds, or just use a large number of smaller rectangular beds.
Microclimate – groups of plants planted together create differences in temperature, dating sites for permaculture, shade and humidity in comparison to the surrounding area, better supporting plant growth.
- Use plants growing together to protect each other from the elements (wind, sun, etc). This will help them survive and create a more resilient garden. Remember, one plant on its own in a bare garden bed is like a man standing in the middle of a desert under a burning hot sun!
Vertical gardening – plants don’t only grow flat on the ground, they can grow up vertical surfaces to make better use of space, dating sites for permaculture. Here are some ideas:
- Various vines such as grapes, kiwi fruit, passionfruit can be grown over trellises, arches, fences, and pergolas.
- Cucurbits, such as pumpkins, rockmelons, watermelons, zucchini, gourds, dating sites for permaculture, loofahs can be grown vertically up a wire mesh (with widely spaced mesh big enough to fit hands through) supported by posts.
- Espaliered trees can be used along fences or narrow spaces to maximise the productivity of large unused vertical spaces.
Water gardens – aquatic ecosystems are the most productive ecosystems of all, and they have many design functions.
- Can be used to grow edible aquatic plants, dating sites for permaculture, such as water chestnuts, sagittaria, lotus, Vietnamese mint, and many others.
- Can support aquatic or amphibious life, that is, dating sites for permaculture, fish or frogs.
- Large ponds can support ducks
- A pond can be used as the water collection area from a reed bed filter system that is used to clean recycled grey water
Mono-cultures, Poly-cultures and Companion Plants – nature favours biodiversity, and a range of plants mixed together, in the right combinations can support each other’s growth and increase productivity,
- Companion planting can be used to stimulate plant growth and productivity, increase resilience to pests and diseases, hide your plants from pests or mask their scent to make them harder for pests to find, and attract beneficial insects which act as pollinators, such as bees, dating sites for permaculture, or attract beneficial predatory insects that will eat pest insects, such as ladybirds, lacewings and hoverflies.
- Monocultures make plants more accessible to pests, and prevent the use of companion planting or plant stacking. Emulate nature by mixing plants up, if you have to go to some effort to find them, so will the pests that eat them!
- Monocultures of annuals take more work, effort and record keeping, as planting one type of annuals in the same spot for more than one season will lead to nutrient depletion, and susceptibility to pests and diseases. The choice is either to perform crop rotation, and keep accurate records of what grew where and when, and what goes where next, or you can just take the easier natural approach, embrace polyculture, and grow everything everywhere.
3. Getting Started
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome is building a Permaculture garden is starting the actual construction. Often people may agonise over the design for months to get it perfect, then come to a complete standstill when it comes to beginning the project.
The critical human factor is motivation, overcoming the inertia of taking on a big challenge. A big challenge is easier when it’s broken down into smaller and manageable parts. There is wisdom in the old joke “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!” I can’t overemphasise the importance of starting small. Even if you’re ambitious and motivated, should you come across any delays, dating sites for permaculture, hurdles or obstacles, there’s the chance of seeing the task as too daunting and simply giving up.
If you select a small task to complete, you make it easier for yourself, and the successful completion of each simple task will bolster confidence, dating sites for permaculture, self esteem, and provide the momentum for the next task which follows.
My strategies for getting started are as follows:
- Design BIG, start small &#; know what it is that you ultimately want to build, use an all-encompassing design that factors in all important design aspects, then construct it one small piece at a time
- Determine the scale of the project – whether it&#;s a container garden or a food forest, get a clear idea how big the garden will be. Factor in the maintenance for the garden dating sites for permaculture. A full-blown food forest, very closely resembling nature, will require far less maintenance and upkeep than an urban container garden. This becomes clearer when you think about root space, water availability, plant size, etc. Remember, nobody needs to water forests, prune them, or fertilise them!
- Determine the critical design elements – these include water, wind sun, orientation of garden, proximity to house, location of plants according to requirements. Also, remember to plant in the correct season, dating sites for permaculture, that is, not mid-summer!
- Modular design – a highly efficient way to build a large garden is to start small, use repeatable units (including guilds) that can be easily replicated to extend the garden to the desired size.
- Design element size priority- a critical construction priority is to put in the biggest elements on the design first, then design around them. For example, in a stacked food forest design, trees go in first, then the irrigation is put into place. Then all the progressively smaller plants are planted around the trees and the location of the irrigation lines, dating sites for permaculture. Dating sites for permaculture smallest elements, such as ground cover plants are planted last. The rationale of this is process is that you can’t dig tree sized holes in garden beds filled with little plants, and installing irrigation in a planted up bed is one of the most time consuming and painful exercises if you’re trying not to damage all the plans in the garden beds…
In summary, breaking down the task of building a garden from scratch into small, manageable pieces, a garden bed dating sites for permaculture a time, with a complete overall design to guide your efforts, makes it far less daunting than it initially appears at the start. You’re more likely to start something if it looks more like a molehill than a mountain! Once you&#;ve successfully completed a project like your own Permaculture garden, you’ll look back and be glad you made the effort, dating sites for permaculture. If you’ve done a Permaculture course, I urge you to take that step and apply what you’ve learned. Nothing reinforces knowledge like the practical application of it. We learn best by doing!
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Moab Permaculture Site History
InEmily Niehaus (Moab City Mayor and Community Rebuilds Director) and Roslynn Brain McCann of (USU’s Environment and Society Department and USU Extension Sustainability director) collaborated to host a permaculture workshop with permaculture design instructor Joel Glanzberg of New Mexico. Following this workshop, Jeremy Lynch (In Transition Permaculture) was hired as a USU Extension Sustainability intern to help bring permaculture to the USU Moab campus.
Jeremy and Roslynn secured grant funding to bring permaculture designer Jason Gerhardt (Real Earth Designs) to Moab to facilitate a community visioning process for the campus and to develop and implement a design plan. USU Moab Dean, Steve Hawks, provided full support for the permaculture design plans on campus, and within a few short years, the team installed permaculture gardens on two-thirds of USU Moab’s Campus.
As a collaboration with the USU Moab permaculture project, a Moab Bee Inspired Gardens Initiative was launched in the Moab community “To inspire efforts toward pollinator health, water conservation, and food and forage systems using gardens, workshops and resources in a way that benefits our community and ecosystems.” The 13 gardens to-date installed in and around Moab include a total of 82 trees and 1, plants. These trees store enough carbon to offset 4, miles of driving an average car. Along with carbon storage, these gardens also have great value in providing flowers for local pollinators, native species habitat, and environmental education.
Given the success of the USU Moab permaculture garden, permaculture design was incorporated into the new USU-Moab campus feasibility study with a dedicated chapter on the topic. The design includes % rainwater-fed gardens, plant guilds, dating sites for permaculture, and infiltration basins among other permaculture concepts. The feasibility study can be found here. The USU Moab permaculture gardens design plan was also featured in Toby Hemenway’s most recent and final book, entitled The Permaculture City. See alovex.co for more information.
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