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Permaculture for Gardeners

Permaculture for Gardeners. with Dan Wheals dano@herbaculture.co.uk www.herbaculture.org.uk 077 177 933 47. Aims of this talk. To understand what permaculture is To see how to do it in your garden To get the bigger idea of permaculture as a way of life.

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Permaculture for Gardeners

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  1. Permaculture for Gardeners • with Dan Wheals • dano@herbaculture.co.uk • www.herbaculture.org.uk • 077 177 933 47

  2. Aims of this talk • To understand what permaculture is • To see how to do it in your garden • To get the bigger idea of permaculture as a way of life. • Herbal medicine & permaculture = herbaculture

  3. What Permaculture is • Permanent culture- sustainability • Earth care, People care. Fair share • A design System based on nature • Globally relevant • Seemingly common sense

  4. Underlying Ethics • Earth care - soil, nature, low carbon • People care - buying from local sources, pleasant place to be, easy to maintain, fair wages • Fair share- land ownership, surplus produce, community gardening

  5. Background • Bill Mollison & David Holmgren • Self Sufficiency • Permaculture Association Britain • Permaculture Magazine • Qualifications

  6. Gone Mainstream? • organic gardening • mulching, rotation, composting • resource efficiency • Earth care - getting mainstream • People care - Not sure • Fair Share - Not yet.

  7. Permaculture Ethics in your garden • Earth care - soil, nature, low carbon • People care - buying from local sources, pleasant place to be, easy to maintain, fair wages • Fair share- land ownership, surplus produce, community gardening

  8. Ideas for your Garden • low input/ max output • Forest Gardens (using the vertical) • Mulching • Closing loops • Perennials • Zones • 5 uses for every plant

  9. 12 principles

  10. Observe and interact • Catch & store energy • Obtain a yield • Apply self regulation & accept feedback • Use and value resources • Produce no waste

  11. Design from patterns to details • Integrate rather than segregate • Use small and slow solutions • use and value diversity • Use the edges and value the marginal • Creatively use and respond to change

  12. Designing with Permaculture • Base Map • Site Survey • Client Questionnaire

  13. Designing with Permaculture • Evaluation • Design Proposals • Re- Evaluation

  14. Bigger Picture • Transition Towns • Designing Economies, towns, personal lives • Using the underlying ethics. Being more self reliant.

  15. Discussion Points • I think using small scale systems we can feed ourselves. May have to reduce our meat intake though. A global food solution? • Proposal: permaculture design coop. • ‘The problem is the solution’. Does this make sense • Gone mainstream or still radical? • Is permainstream v hippy

  16. Herbal medicine consultations&Permaculture garden design • with Dan Wheals • dano@herbaculture.co.uk • www.herbaculture.org.uk • 077 177 933 47 • Any Questions?

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