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The Backyard Permaculture Food Forest is now producing hazelnuts, grapes, european pear, asian pear, raspberries, strawberries, eggplants, and the list goes on and on!!
This Forest Garden is only a third of an acre, however when you walk through it you are surrounded by an abundance of diversity and food. The Forest Garden was created by Tim and Maddy Harland who founded Permaculture Magazine and have been observing the successes and failures since it was planted. I decided to travel to Hampshire in England to take a closer look and share what they are doing. I think this is a fantastic example that you really don’t need a huge amount of space for a beautiful paradise which not only provides productivity in food but also productivity for wildlife to thrive. If this interests you the take a look at these links:
Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicines, colors, water, fragrances, and wildlife. This is the very best fast food!
Geoff Lawton is an internationally – renowned permaculture educator, consultant and practitioner. He emigrated from England to Australia and later studied permaculture with Bill Mollison in Tasmania. He established the Permaculture Research Institute at Tagari Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a 147 acre farmstead previously developed by Mollison. PRI was eventually moved to Zaytuna Farm, in The Channon, where it continues today.
Since 1985, Geoff has designed and implemented permaculture projects in 30 countries for private individuals and groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, & multinational corporations. He has taught the Permaculture Design Certificate course and designed permaculture projects in 30 countries. The Permaculture Research Institute supports the establishments of Permaculture Master Plan sites worldwide as demonstration sites and education centers that network their research information through. www.permacultureglobal.com.
About TEDx:
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
This event was held in Ajman, UAE.
31st of March, 2012
Featured on http://thepermaculturezone.com – Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne of Los Angeles, California are backyard farmers and radical home economics advocates. They give a tour of their property and offer the benefits of their more than 10 years of experience working the land in beautiful Southern California. http://thepermaculturezone.com
Take a tour with Alex as he shows you how his permaculture forest garden grows. Get more info at https://www.facebook.com/groups/376132752470842/ (Permaculture Jax) and www.starwalkerproject.com.
Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry in Australia, but after learning about the true state of the world as peak oil and climate change begin to take effect, he knew he had to leave that unsustainable lifestyle behind and do something useful to help heal the earth and to be more resilient in the face of change. He and his wife Beth moved to New Zealand, where they’re in the process of turning green-desert farmland into a productive and bountiful forest of food.
It’s incredible to see how much they’re harvesting after just three years. Andrew researches extensively about the big interconnected issues in the realms of economy, environment and energy and offers his skills and knowledge to city and regional councils that need to build their own resilience (that would be pretty much all of them!). Find out more about Andrew’s work on his website Rethink Enterprises.
This film was made as part of our Living the Change series. For this series we’re traveling around New Zealand making short documentary films about permaculture farms, tiny houses, and sustainability.
The Permaculture Food Forest is still in high production, and the past investments are starting to pay off. I have been harvesting so much food that its hard to keep up with. I am located in New Jersey in Zone 6B
REMEMBER! THIS IS ONLY PART 1. Part 2 Will be released on Monday August 14th, at 7PM Eastern Standard Time.
Peter McCoy explores some of the cutting edge ideas that mycologists and permaculturalists are taking to stack a fungal function into every zone and aspect of resilient design.
See hundreds of presentations like this in the Voices Vault member area – http://bit.ly/2exM020
In depth podcast episodes with Peter:
The Rise of the Mushroom – A Look at the Future of the “Artificial” Intelligence of Fungi – Exploring Fungi’s Roles in Pollution Remediation, Medicine, and Soils with Peter McCoy: http://bit.ly/2gu5O3g
We have heard about the potential for integrating mushrooms and other fungi into permaculture design, but what would a complete integration of the fungal kingdom in our systems actually look like?
From efficiently utilizing waste streams, to feeding livestock, to supporting nursery stocks and adding another layer to food forests all while producing high quality whole foods and potent natural medicine, the fungi offer incredible solutions to some of the remaining gaps in permaculture design.
This presentation will provide both existing examples as well as theoretical models that the crowd will be encouraged to help refine as we create new possibilities for this exciting and growing field.
This presentation was recorded live at PV2 in March 2015.
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After local property owners retired, they decided that rather than sit in front of a TV and spend an average of 5 hours a week tending lawns and ornamental shrubs, they would do one of Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture PDC courses.
After completing Geoff’s course they were so inspired that they continued and attended Paul Taylors Permaculture Soils Course. At the end of the courses, design in hand, they asked Paul if he would help them implement their design and enhance it where he could. Since Paul just lived down the road and over the hill, he agreed.
With the help of a few young travellers from the Byron Bay backpackers, all hand on deck and the project began. The owners already had a tractor so the labour was a lot easier, eventually the design for the 1 acre ‘zone 1’ project would be 80% food forest and just 20% annual cropping.
The property was all up about 50 acres, about half forest with some grazing areas and lots of lawn this project was designed by the owners for the acre of lawn.
The large areas of lawn only had about 2 inches of topsoil on top of a heavily compacted clay base, so they decided that they would like to best use a mix of topsoil and compost to form raised beds since they preferred sitting on the edge of raised beds to bending over. The Plan was to use cheap local timber to make the beds that would rot away over the next 5-6 years. By this time, they would have made enough compost and collected enough farm waste to build up the topsoil over the entire acre to have a nice fluffy productive area. All the raised beds were the same size so a chicken tractor could be cycled around, and over the next 8 weeks we made 25 tonnes of compost, mostly from on farm resources and mixed this with some of the topsoil from making the dam to fill the raised beds.
Many of the raised beds were designed to be inter-planted with fruit trees, the ornamental shrubs, which were planted in areas where the topsoil was a bit deeper and removed, added to the compost and replaced with fruit trees, berries and banana circles in their subtropical climate.
One of the opportunities they had was a road above a ridge on the property that was about 12 meters higher than their new garden area, so all agreed to take advantage of this opportunity and build a 600,000L dam on the high ridge and fill it by connecting it to a road runoff drain some 500 meters away. This meant that they had the opportunity to build about 500Mts of swale that could not only serve as a water course to fill the dam from the road runoff, but it would also provide an opportunity to reduce erosion and and create an area to immediately populate with fruit trees, so yes, opportunity to fix an erosion gully, plant trees and fill and dam that would irrigate their gardens without the need for pumping.
Just a note: that in the first year this acre produced over 2 tons of veggies, if all of these were sold at local farmers market prices of $5 per kilo, this would equate to about $10,000 for not much more time invested than mowing the lawns and giving a whole lot healthier lifestyle on many levels, not just for being active, eating better food, turning waste into compost, managing road runoff that was causing erosion but as an example that inspired family and friends to grow their own veggie gardens as well.
One of the young travellers decided to document this whole thing, make a movie and put it on you tube as ‘permaculture transformation in 90 days’. Yes, the voice over is essentially terrible since it was just a recording while using a monotone dictation program to write a basic script and a proper voice over was never done.
However, remember if you are going to be interested in Permaculture then one of the permaculture primaries is to ‘turn problems into solutions’ so thanks for the feedback and I’ll make sure that we film it better next time.
In this first film, we are going to take a short tour of the farm and tell you a little bit about the farm story. You will find more about Perrine and Charles’ quest at Le Bec Hellouin farm in their book “Miraculous Abundance”.
Kia is an Ant in the Wheaton Labs Ant Village and he and Evan have built this amazing fortress of fence and tiny houses with permaculture edibles inside to boot! Their only internet presence is found on patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/AvaPermaculture
Their permaculture paradise is on Paul Wheaton’s property in Montana and you can learn more about that at http://www.richsoil.com
Celebrating the first 6 months on the ground at what has become of of Europe’s flagship Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture demonstration farm & learning hub. Integrating Permaculture, Keyline Design & Holistic Management to produce high quality local food & empowering others from around the world to do the same. Demonstrating what can be done by small groups of amazing people connected to be of benefit…
The Permaculture Principles guide our design decisions and formulate the structure of our Permaculture system. We are using David Holmgren’s 12 principle version which are used to help guide every Permaculture design. Oregon State University Free Permaculture Course (http://open.oregonstate.edu/courses/permaculture/)
A young family wants to make a change and asked two different landscape design teams to design their landscape for healthy fruits and vegetables, nuts and eggs. The two companies create designs and got back with the couple. The video shows the results and below you can easily see the connections and benefits the permaculture design took into the family’s consideration.
Where the traditional design does meet the family’s needs, the permaculture design take a practical look at the landscape, the couple’s desires, and joins them together with harmonious interaction. Here are some of the connections:
Chicken house:
At a spot in the property where it will eventually leach nutrients down slope into the landscape.
Captures it’s own water.
Deep bedding method so the whole thing is a egg making compost generator.
Greenhouse A:
Grow food all year.
Doubles as a plant nursery.
Greenhouse B:
Heats and cools home by providing a buffer zone and convection.
Cleanses grey water.
Grows nutrient dense tropical food plants because it has a microclimate that can do that.
Adds additional living space to the home.
Orchard / Food forest:
Captures it’s own water by designing it with the slope of the landscape.
Fertilized by both chicken system and support species.
Ecosystem design to maximum yield.
Once established it is almost a zero work system.
Wilfdlife habitat.
Nature area for a sense of well being.
Real long term low maintenance food security
Garden and crops:
You garden more efficiently when you have to walk through the garden to get into the house.
Utilizes keyhole gardens with one entry/rotation point instead of rectangular garden that needs to be worked from the outside perimeter.
The darker green areas are support species that are filled with nitrogen and nutrient accumulating species as well as pollinator attractors and beneficial predatory insect attractors to aid in suppressing pests and to create wildlife habitat with an ecosystem rather than monoculture.
Vegetables washing station near home entry to maximize work efficiency that also uses the wash water to keep worm farm moist. The culling of leaves and plants from the garden go into the worm farm to feed the worms. The worm farm has a drain at the bottom so they can harvest the worm juice after each wash.
Water tanks:
Catches drinkable and irrigation water from the roof.
Pumped out with a solar powered pump.
Irrigates garden with simple low tech, low cost, efficient system.
Chicken system:
Creates low work natural fertilizer.
De-pests growing areas
De-weeds growing areas
Feeds chickens
Compost area:
Along with the chicken house it serves as a organic nutrient cycling area.
Gives quicker compost for garden needs
Feeds chickens
Store:
The city ordinances allow having a store/stand of some types to sell directly to the public.
Parking area captures run off water for food forest
Community is established with sales
Money is made
Community area:
Comfortable outside living space
outdoor cooking area
A visually and aesthetically pleasing area for the family and visitors
Meeting area
As you can see there are a lot of connections made in a permaculture design that will benefit this family, the soil, wildlife, and the environment. And this example could be used for a standard suburban lot up to around an acre or so of land. But it does not stop there. A baby boomer couple has now called upon a conventional agriculture consultant and a permaculture consultant to design their farm. This should be a show down of exciting designs and the results should be in soon.
