- 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
- The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
- 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 ______