Permaculture Design

What is Permaculture?

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“Though the problems of the world are

increasingly complex, the solutions remain

embarrassingly simple.”

By Bill Mollison

Permaculture is the harmonious integration through systems management of all life kingdoms into agriculturally productive

ecosystems and socially just environments, producing sound economic consequences. It’s a design science reflecting patterns in

Nature that seeks to build interconnections allowing for energy efficiency and

abundance of yield.

harmonious integration through systems

management

all life kingdoms

agriculturally productive ecosystems

City Repair

Intersection Repair and Common Space Development

socially just environments

producing sound economic consequences.

design science

reflecting patterns in Nature

Guild Design

Providing Nutrients (PN) Reducing Root Competition (RRC)

Assist in Pest Control (APC)

Providing Physical Shelter (PPS)

build interconnections

Central Element- Paw Paw

Cana Lily- PN, APC, PPS, RRC, EDEchinecea- APC, MD

Comfrey- PN, APC, RRC,PPS, ED, MD

Horseradish- PN, PPS, ED

Jerusalem Artichoke- PN, APC, RRC, PPS, EDGoats Rue- PN, PPS, ED

energy efficiency

Temperate permaculture pt 4 the global gardener

abundance of yield.

The Design Process

Bill Mollison and David Holmgren

1978 Landmark publication

PermacultureOne begins movement

Bill’s Inspirations

Huge Monocultures

No Diversity-Globalization

FOREST

FIELD

PLOW

DESERT

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http://annualreport.syngenta.com/en/overview/chairmans-letter.aspx

While the financial crisis grabbed the headlines, the underlying challenge of ensuring food security for a growing world population remained central to the agenda of governments worldwide. The magnitude of this challenge was reinforced by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which announced in June that the combination of global economic slowdown and high food prices had pushed another 100 million people into a state of chronic hunger and poverty. The total number of people on the planet who are malnourished has now surpassed the one billion mark.

Which way will we go??

Design Science

“A beneficial assembly of components in their proper relationships”

In commerce

zones...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter." - Bill Mollison

“Without a plan, there is no commitment, hence no accountability.”

Henri Fayol

Design Principles

RelativeLocation

Multiplefunctions

MultipleElements

EnergyEfficient Planning

UsingBiologicalResources

EnergyCycling

SmallScale

IntensiveAcceleratingSuccession

Diversity

EdgeAwareness

Attitudinalprinciples

PermaculturePrinciples

Relative Location-Making

Interrelationships

Multiple Functions for Every Element

Mulberry Tree:

Shade

Forage

Food

Nutrient absorber

Protection

Soil Builder

Entertainment

Multiple Elements for Every Function ( slow and sink water)

Rain Garden Rain Cisterns

Swales are water harvesting ditches and mounds on contour.

SWALES

Chinampas:Reconstructed

Wetlands

Ditch and Mound

Increase land increase water

Increase productivity

Contour Hedgerow

DAMS GABIONS

Keyline Design

GreyWater

Energy Efficient Planning

zones

Zone- Placing Elements in our Design based on Intensity of Use

Sector Analysis-

Mapping wild, oncoming energies

Wind (Summer and Winter)Sun(Summer and Winter)

Noise Pollution

ViewWildlife

Fire