• Permaculture’s Prime Directive and Three Ethics
    • The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
      • Care of the earth
      • Care of people
      • Return of surplus
  • Zones of Design
    • Zone 0 – inside your shelter
    • Zone 1 – where you naturally step every day
    • Zone 2 – where you are weekly
    • Zone 3 – main crops of agriculture
    • Zone 4 – large scale farm forestry
    • Zone 5 – nature, hunt and gather only
  • Rules of Zones
    • You don’t have them all on all properties
    • They should get progressively larger
    • They are not circular they are specific to a property
    • They are in the end subject to the designer not the other way around
    • Spend most of your initial effort on zone 1 or zone 1-2
  • The layers of a forest
    • Canopy
    • Sub Canopy
    • Shrub
    • Herbaceous
    • Ground Cover
    • Rhizome
    • Vine
  • Key Takeaways About Layers
    • They exist so if you don’t fill them nature will
    • They scale up and down
    • Layers exist in natural and man made systems
    • Layers exit in annual systems, gardens, etc.
  • Six Key Permaculture Principles – There are many more.
    • Observe, interact and accept feedback
    • Integrate rather than segregate
    • The greatest yields are always on the edges of systems
    • The forest is the greatest of all teachers
    • Catch, store and rebound energy
    • The more restriction on a design the more eloquent the design if the designer is up to the task
  • Permaculture Myths
    • It is only perennials
    • It is separate from techniques like say aquaponics, rotational grazing, etc.
    • It is only for ______