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Permaculture Workshop
Fiona Morris - Atelier Rabbit
FEI Capita Selecta - Wageningen University - 22-07-2015
fiona.morris@atelierrabbit.com www.atelierrabbit.com
Illustration by Cecilia Macaulay
Overview:
Zoning exercise
Design method summary
What is Permaculture?
PERMANENT AGRICULTURE
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)
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.
Concept first published, 1978, Australia ‘Permaculture 1: A perennial agricultural system for human
settlements’
How observing natural, sustainable, productive systems...
...could inspire people to take responsibility through designing productive ecosystems with integral conservation, land repair, and social sustainability
Spread from self-sufficiency agriculture to:
• Horticulture• Architecture• Ecology• Economic
systems• Land access
strategies• Development
Permaculture design application:
‘Permablitzing’... ...to painting...
(Melbourne, Australia - www.permablitz.net) (City Repair, USA)
...and grassroots sustainability movements:
≈ 2015The Last Oil Shock by David Strahan (2007)
IMF FOOD PRICE INDEX
IMF OIL PRICE INDEX
€
2-10 = 1
BBC Documentary (2009) – www.youtube.com/watch?v
=vJMgfKqKXwY
Alternatives to industrial mono-cropping for the challenge of diminishing resources and biodiversity…
Rebecca Hosking – Devon, UK
Landscape restoration, community, education, & economy…
Julius Piti, CELUK project Chikukwa, Zimbabwe
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
Permaculture design system:
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)
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
ETHICSPRINCIPLESSYSTEMS THINKING
Interactive components in synergistic, interconnective organisation
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
ETHICSPRINCIPLESSYSTEMS THINKINGZONINGSECTOR
ANALYSIS
Systematic assessment of abiotic and biotic influences on the space
ZONING= Energy planning
...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).
...to mushrooms.
...to mushrooms.
...to mushrooms.
...to mushrooms.
...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).
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
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