Episode-2418- The Design Science of Permaculture – Part Three
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Three weeks ago I realized that we have not really dived deep into the topic of Permaculture I began this current series on Permaculture. So far we have completed part one and part two of this series. If you have not listened to them you may want to because today we are going into techniques and tactics. In general when people jump into techniques and consider the technique itself “permaculture” we get “type one errors”, and we don’t want that.
Today we expand on our series as we continue with techniques, tactics and strategies as they relate to Permaculture design. While today we will focus on food production and livestock I do want to remind you that as a design science permaculture can be applied to just about anything from designing a business to designing your lifestyle.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- What is a type one error as applied to permaculture design
- What is a technique
- What is a tactic
- What is a strategy
- Some Permaculture Techniques
- Key hole gardens
- Contour gardens
- Terrace gardens
- The herb spiral (or herb garden)
- Aquatics
- Hugulkulture
- Back Yard Orchard Culture
- Composting
- Wicking beds
- Green houses and other season extenders
- And many more
- Getting tactical
- Determine connections between systems
- Integrate systems and stack functions
- Eliminate labor via automation and natural process
- Consider restrictions based on the scale of permanence
- How to come up with your strategy
- What do you need
- What do you want
- What do you like
- What do you hate
- How much time do you have
- What realities are you ignoring
- Final thoughts
This continues a multi part series on Permaculture, next time we will discuss, guilds, free form vs. specific design, 6 more design principles and more.
Resources for today’s show…
- Join the Members Brigade
- Join Our Forum
- Walking To Freedom
- TspAz.com
- The Granddaddy’s Gun Club
- Biltong for Breakfast
- Great Article on the Scale of Permanence
- Back Yard Orchard Culture Explained
- Drums of War – Jackson Brown
Permaculture Videos
Check out these free videos, you are going to love them…
- 2019 Permaculture Masterclass :: Video-1
- 2019 Permaculture Masterclass :: Video 2
- 2019 Permaculture Masterclass :: Video 3
- 2019 Permaculture Masterclass :: Video 4
- Interview I did with Verge Permaculture
- 16 Part Permaculture Design Series I did on Youtube
- Five Primary Functions of Swales
- An Explanation of Swales as a Design System
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Jack, I always enjoy your permaculture episodes, this series particularly. When you mentioned taking time to make a good design being like planning a living room, it reminded me of a very simple way to do this that might help someone get started. It’s so simple that I’m almost embarrassed to describe it.
Because my Dad was career Army, Mom was always moving to new quarters or apartments sight unseen. She would get the floor plans and draw them on graph paper. She had made a little set of cardboard pieces to the same scale for every piece of furniture we had. She’d move those around the room plan until she had a good arrangement. Furniture was placed on moving day, there were no errors, and nothing ever had to be moved later. It should work just the same for a garden or any land use.
I’m sure most people today would say, “oh, you could do that on computer.” Sure you could, if you want it to be more difficult or take longer. 🙂 Simplicity is elegant.
A related tip is to keep one’s garden book in a graph-paper notebook. It is easy to draw out beds, plan successions, record results (accept feedback!) and draw scale plans for things you might want to make, for example for season extension. Again, so simple, but probably not taught in schools anymore. I can say also that doing this regularly and often has greatly improved my eye for distances. Maybe these simple tips will help someone put into action the things you are explaining. Thanks again for all you do!