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Permaculture Design Workshop: Sustainable Agriculture & Systems Thinking

Dive into the principles and techniques of permaculture design for sustainable agriculture, including zoning exercises and ethics. Explore how to integrate landscape and people harmoniously, inspired by natural ecosystems.

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Permaculture Design Workshop: Sustainable Agriculture & Systems Thinking

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  1. Permaculture Workshop FEI Capita Selecta - Wageningen University - 22-07-2015 Illustration by Cecilia Macaulay Fiona Morris - Atelier Rabbit fiona.morris@atelierrabbit.com www.atelierrabbit.com

  2. Overview: What is Permaculture? Design method summary Zoning exercise

  3. PERMANENT AGRICULTURE

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. Concept first published, 1978, Australia‘Permaculture 1: A perennial agricultural system for human settlements’

  7. How observing natural, sustainable, productive systems...

  8. ...could inspire people to take responsibility through designing productive ecosystems with integral conservation, land repair, and social sustainability

  9. Permaculture design application: Spread from self-sufficiency agriculture to: • Horticulture • Architecture • Ecology • Economic systems • Land access strategies • Development

  10. ‘Permablitzing’... ...to painting... (Melbourne, Australia - www.permablitz.net) (City Repair, USA)

  11. ...and grassroots sustainability movements:

  12. ≈ 2015 The Last Oil Shock by David Strahan (2007)

  13. IMF FOOD PRICE INDEX € IMF OIL PRICE INDEX

  14. 2-10 = 1

  15. Alternatives to industrial mono-cropping for the challenge of diminishing resources and biodiversity… BBC Documentary (2009) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMgfKqKXwY

  16. Rebecca Hosking – Devon, UK

  17. Landscape restoration, community, education, & economy… Julius Piti, CELUK project Chikukwa, Zimbabwe

  18. 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

  19. Permaculture design system:

  20. ETHICS 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. (Mollison & Holmgren,1978)

  21. PRINCIPLES Ecological, attitudinal & spatial design principles such as: Create a yield Important functions are supported by many components Let nature do the work Diversity (for stability) All elements are multi-functional

  22. Interactive components in synergistic, interconnective organisation SYSTEMS THINKING ETHICS PRINCIPLES

  23. AGRO- ECOLOGY TECHNIQUES Animal management Pest management Crop management Weed management Water management Cycling of energy/materials Techniques are site & issue dependent – there are no universal templates Soil management Permaculture Approach

  24. SYSTEMS THINKING SECTOR ANALYSIS ZONING ETHICS PRINCIPLES Systematic assessment of abiotic and biotic influences on the space

  25. ZONING = Energy planning

  26. ...to mushrooms. The relationship between accessibility and intensity of use of space (input-output). ZONE 0House/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.

  27. ...to mushrooms.

  28. ...to mushrooms.

  29. ...to mushrooms.

  30. ...to mushrooms.

  31. ...to mushrooms. The relationship between accessibility and intensity of use of space (input-output). ZONE 0House/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.

  32. 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=vJMgfKqKXwY Fordhall Farm - Grass pasture system: www.fordhallfarm.com/fordhall_farm.php?pid=9 Martin 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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