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An Introduction to Permaculture
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•A way to work with nature to design a place for humans to live.
•Its ‘nature based’ systems design, creating environments with diversity, dynamic stability, and
resilience.
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Why Permaculture – Change Needed
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•Thinking and Actions that move the human population from destructive exploiters to
ecological regenerators.
•Simple solutions for the worlds complex problems.
•Many discussions and arguments (we would otherwise concentrate on) become irrelevant.
CO2, Population, Waste Disposal..
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Costa Georgiadis
Permaculture ... is all about combining age old truths and skills with new and innovative thinking and technologies …people,
plants and landscapes growing together , designing and nurturing a healthy community along the way . -
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Josh Byrne
Permaculture is practical, grass roots sustainability in action.
It provides immediate tools for people to reduce their
environmental footprint and build resilient communities.
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Permaculture is about purposefully thinking, leading to purposeful change.
Observe what is already there, everything has inherent value, we just need to recognise it.
Instead of starting with “Where can I put this raised bed?”
Ask:
“What is already growing (including weeds), where is the wet soil, where is there sun and shade, what are these trees
and how can I utilise them.
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Make the switch, from “me” to “we”.
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Find Nature – Anywhere and everywhere
Start -The power of just doing stuff !
Observe and Interact – Pest-Predators-Weeds-etc.
Learn - Accept the Feedback and Evolve
Minimise trial by ordeal with Permaculture’s Design ideas.
Read and meet local ‘knowledge’
Share - Build Family and Resilience
Grow Community. Share your local Wisdom.
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As a grass roots movement permaculture does not require government funding or committee approval, just the willingness of people to move forward to a preferred ecological reality.
You are the master of this change, but the permaculture community and works shops like these can be a great help.
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Ethics:
Care of Earth,
Care of People
& Fair Share
Observe & Interact
Catch & Store Energy
Obtain A Yield
Apply Self Regulation &
Accept Feedback
Use and Value Renewable
Resources & Services
Produce No Waste Design from Patterns to Details
Integrate Rather
Than Segregate
Use Small &
Slow Solutions
Use & Value
Diversity
Use Edges & Value
the Marginal
Creatively Use &
Repond To Change
Permaculture Ethics & Principles
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1: OBSERVE AND INTERACT
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2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY
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3: OBTAIN A YIELD
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4: APPLY SELF- REGULATION & ACCEPT FEEDBACK
Permies work to actively create and then maintain the ability of their entire system (lives) to
rapidly identify and respond to change. To be self-regulating, there must be feedback. The more
frequent, the better.
This applies to work, gardening, but also to yourself.
Self Audit
Consider each of your needs and wants.
Do I really need this item?
If yes, is there any way that I can grow, make,
borrow, or use something I already own instead?
Can I buy a local, organically-produced, chemical-free,
or fair trade version or alternative?
Analyse ,evaluate and regulate.
Trial and error.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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5: USE & VALUE RENEWABLE
RESOURCES & SERVICES
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6: PRODUCE NO WASTE
Human Waste – Chicken Waste – Garden Waste
Deliberate Design matching needs to products
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Step back. Observe the patterns in Nature and society which
can (and should) form the backbone of our designs.
Fill in the details as we go. Complex systems that work
are created from simple systems that worked.
If we start with systems/patterns that have inherently worked in
nature for hundreds of years, and design for feedback and
change (evolution) we should be able to create a dynamic
stability sooner.
Gaia’s Garden – Toby Hemenway
Regrarian Farm Design System - Darren Doherty.
7: DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO
DETAILS
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7:DESIGN FROM PATTERNS TO
DETAILS
1. Broad to Specific - Wear the designers hat and then the owners
hat.
2. Sector Analysis - Map the Natural Forces acting on your site.
• Sun - Hot, Shade, Arc, Seasonal – Main URBAN Design
Factor.
• Water – Rain, harvesting vs erosion, Main RURAL design
factor.
3. Nutrient Cycling – Utilise local resources and close the loop.
4. Articulate the Design Principles – Use the Systems Design
Cheat Sheet
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8: INTEGRATE RATHER THAN SEGREGATE
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9: USE SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS
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10: USE AND VALUE DIVERSITY
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11: Use the Edge and Value the Margin
The edge effect is an ecological concept that describes how
there is a greater diversity of life in the region where the edges of
two adjacent ecosystems overlap. land/water, or forest/grassland.
At the edge of two overlapping ecosystems, you can find species
from both of these ecosystems, as well as unique species that
aren’t found in either ecosystem but are specially adapted to the
conditions of the transition zone between the two edges.
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12: CREATIVELY USE & RESPOND TO CHANGE
Change creates feedback and thus the opportunity to learn
from it. Without change there is no feedback so embrace and
design for change.
Nature has dynamic stability. Ironically change keeps the
system stable.
Dynamic stability is like riding
a bike, while you are moving
(there is change) you are
Balanced, but when you stop
moving you fall off the bike.
Permaculture thinking – The problem is the solution
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Permaculture thinking is
systems based – Everything is
connected.
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Plant a fruit Tree
Horticulture Monocultures
Permaculture
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Plants some Veggies
Horticulture Monocultures
Permaculture Polycultures
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Build a home
Building Company Profits Owner and Nature Profits
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Basic Design of
Urban Permaculture Gardens
and Homes
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If you have a white board and a projector, like we do, idea planning can be quick and easy.
Otherwise print out A4 or A3 block plan, list your wants and needs, consider how they interact with each other and you interact with them and start trying to lay them out.
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Regenerative Urban Planning Priorities Climate - Sun (the "Deal breaker"), seasonal change, rainfall, and wind. The mental climate
of the client also needs to be understood and designed for.
Geography - Land-shape, water catchment, and soil types. Cultural landscapes will also
impose design constraints.
Water - Sources, storage, wetlands and waste water management.
Access - The pathways and patterns of your habitual routes can make the difference between
a successful versus an uncomfortable (and thus ultimately failing) design.
Forestry/Orchard - Trees provide shade, habitat, food, fuel, and much more. Designs
should be tree-centric with integrated edible under stories.
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Buildings - Solar passive home design or the retrofitting of permanent structures and
intelligently designed mobile structures, are essential to make a effective livable zone.
Zoning and Element Integration - Placement of elements into the design guided by their
accessibility and frequency needs. Additionally the matching of needs of individual
elements with the products of others.
Soils - The most important natural resource, but lower on the design priority as we can and
always will be building the capacity of soil. All practices are regenerative of soil fertility
while still creating a adequate yield to the client.
Energy - Gravity, Electricity, Liquid/Gas, Biological (Animal, micro-biological,
Photosynthetic) and Combustion. Intelligent choices can create a site that provides all its
energy needs.
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