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Permaculture as a Design Science Part One – Epi-3048

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Today we are beginning what is going to be at least a 5 part series on the design science of Permaculture.  These will be both done as audio podcasts and in live feeds with support from power point slides.  This series will serve long term as what will amount to a free introductory course on Permaculture.

We are going to start out with the prime directive, ethics, zones of design and the layers of a forest.  These four components drive the entire system thinking process of permaculture.

We will then discuss 6 permaculture principles and how they apply to the modern survivalist life style.  We will then finish up with some myths and misconceptions about Permaculture.  In doing so I think you will realize that Permaculture is so much more than a way to grow food naturally.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Permaculture’s Prime Directive and Three Ethics
    • The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
      • Care of the earth
      • Care of people
      • Return of surplus
  • Zones of Design
    • Zone 0 – inside your shelter
    • Zone 1 – where you naturally step every day
    • Zone 2 – where you are weekly
    • Zone 3 – main crops of agriculture
    • Zone 4 – large scale farm forestry
    • Zone 5 – nature, hunt and gather only
  • Rules of Zones
    • You don’t have them all on all properties
    • They should get progressively larger
    • They are not circular they are specific to a property
    • They are in the end subject to the designer not the other way around
    • Spend most of your initial effort on zone 1 or zone 1-2
  • The layers of a forest
    • Canopy
    • Sub Canopy
    • Shrub
    • Herbaceous
    • Ground Cover
    • Rhizome
    • Vine
  • Key Takeaways About Layers
    • They exist so if you don’t fill them nature will
    • They scale up and down
    • Layers exist in natural and man made systems
    • Layers exit in annual systems, gardens, etc.
  • Six Key Permaculture Principles – There are many more.
    • Observe, interact and accept feedback
    • Integrate rather than segregate
    • The greatest yields are always on the edges of systems
    • The forest is the greatest of all teachers
    • Catch, store and rebound energy
    • The more restriction on a design the more eloquent the design if the designer is up to the task
  • Permaculture Myths
    • It is only perennials
    • It is separate from techniques like say aquaponics, rotational grazing, etc.
    • It is only for ______
  • Final Thoughts

 

This begins a multi part series on Permaculture, in the next episode of this series we will discuss, sectors of design, earth works, guilds and 6 more design principles.

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Permaculture as a Design Science Part One – Epi-3048 — 1 Comment

  1. Are you ever going to finish your series on the 5 mega-trends? Did I miss the last 2 somehow?

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