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Permaculture Workshop
Fiona Morris - Atelier Rabbit
FEI Capita Selecta - Wageningen University - 22-07-2015
[email protected] www.atelierrabbit.com
Illustration by Cecilia Macaulay
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Overview:
Zoning exercise
Design method summary
What is Permaculture?
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PERMANENT AGRICULTURE
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Definitions:
• ...the conscious design and management of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
• ...the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. (Bill Mollison, 1988)
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Philosophy:
• working with, rather than against, nature; • observation before action; • looking at systems in all their functions, rather
than asking only one yield of them; • allowing systems to demonstrate their own
evolutions (working with sucession) – self-organisation & ecomimicry concepts.
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Concept first published, 1978, Australia ‘Permaculture 1: A perennial agricultural system for human
settlements’
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How observing natural, sustainable, productive systems...
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...could inspire people to take responsibility through designing productive ecosystems with integral conservation, land repair, and social sustainability
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Spread from self-sufficiency agriculture to:
• Horticulture• Architecture• Ecology• Economic
systems• Land access
strategies• Development
Permaculture design application:
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‘Permablitzing’... ...to painting...
(Melbourne, Australia - www.permablitz.net) (City Repair, USA)
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...and grassroots sustainability movements:
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≈ 2015The Last Oil Shock by David Strahan (2007)
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IMF FOOD PRICE INDEX
IMF OIL PRICE INDEX
€
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2-10 = 1
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BBC Documentary (2009) – www.youtube.com/watch?v
=vJMgfKqKXwY
Alternatives to industrial mono-cropping for the challenge of diminishing resources and biodiversity…
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Rebecca Hosking – Devon, UK
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Landscape restoration, community, education, & economy…
Julius Piti, CELUK project Chikukwa, Zimbabwe
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The stream dried-up, and the land was eroding...
• Help from a permaculture centre stimulated:– return of water flow– land recovery– improved productivity– peer-to-peer learning– an organic, community-based NGO
• http://permaculturenews.org/2013/08/15/the-chikukwa-permaculture-project-zimbabwe-the-full-story/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTMWsjG0N-0
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Permaculture design system:
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EARTH CARE: Care of all living & non-living things – harmless, ethical, &
rehabilitative activities. Provision for all life systems to continue and increase.
PEOPLE CARE: Provision for people’s basic material and social needs to avoid
broadscale destructive practices. Promoting self-reliance & community responsibility.
FAIR SHARES: Contribution of surplus time, money, & energy to achieve the
aims of earth & people care. Setting limits to population and consumption: by governing our own needs, we can set time and resources aside to further the above principles.
ETHICS
(Mollison & Holmgren,1978)
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Ecological, attitudinal & spatial design principles such as:
Create a yield
All elements are multi-functional
Important functions are supported by many componentsLet nature do the
work
Diversity (for stability)
PRINCIPLES
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ETHICSPRINCIPLESSYSTEMS THINKING
Interactive components in synergistic, interconnective organisation
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Animal management
Crop management
Water management
Soil management
Cycling of energy/materials
Weed management
Pest management
Permaculture Approach
Techniques are site & issue dependent – there are no universal templates
AGRO- ECOLOGY
TECHNIQUES
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ETHICSPRINCIPLESSYSTEMS THINKINGZONINGSECTOR
ANALYSIS
Systematic assessment of abiotic and biotic influences on the space
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ZONING= Energy planning
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...to mushrooms.
ZONE 0 House/village/centre of human activity
ZONE 1 (home garden) 6-12m periphery. Frequent use/ high maintenance/ constant observation.
ZONE 2 (home orchard) Less intensive - animals/perennials/orchard/ structures.
ZONE 3 (farm-scale) Broad-scale farming – crops/ water-storage/ managed woodland.
ZONE 4 (managed woodland) Wild forage/ fuel - pasture/ range/ water-storage.
ZONE 5 (wilderness) Natural/ unmanaged – where you learn the rules to apply elsewhere.
The relationship between accessibility and intensity of use of space (input-output).
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...to mushrooms.
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...to mushrooms.
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...to mushrooms.
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...to mushrooms.
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...to mushrooms.
ZONE 0 House/village/centre of human activity
ZONE 1 (home garden) 6-12m periphery. Frequent use/ high maintenance/ constant observation.
ZONE 2 (home orchard) Less intensive - animals/perennials/orchard/ structures.
ZONE 3 (farm-scale) Broad-scale farming – crops/ water-storage/ managed woodland.
ZONE 4 (managed woodland) Wild forage/ fuel - pasture/ range/ water-storage.
ZONE 5 (wilderness) Natural/ unmanaged – where you learn the rules to apply elsewhere.
The relationship between accessibility and intensity of use of space (input-output).
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A few resources:
• Introduction to Permaculture, Mollison & Slay• Permaculture: A Designers' Manual, Bill Mollison (WUR
library)• Farm for the Future - BBC Documentary (2009)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMgfKqKXwYFordhall Farm - Grass pasture system:
www.fordhallfarm.com/fordhall_farm.php?pid=9Martin Crawford - Agro-forestry Research Trust:
www.agroforestry.co.uk• (EN) UK Permaculture Association:
www.permaculture.org.uk/ • (NL) Permacultuur Nederland: www.permaculture.org.uk/• Plants for a Future - database: www.pfaf.org