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Introduc)ontoPermaculture
byAdrienLapointe
Who am I?
• MSc from Queen’s , 2008 • Project management • Teaching
• PDC at Whole Systems Design in 2013
• Restoration Ag course at New Forest Farm in 2014
• Planted thousands of fruit trees, nut trees, and perennials
• Nursery, mushroom, food preservation, foraging, ...
Who am I?
Who am I?
Challenges!
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Challenges!
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Challenges!
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Challenges!
What is Permaculture?
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What is Permaculture?
A design systems that attempts to integrate fabricated, natural, spatial,
temporal, social, and ethical components to form a whole.
What is Permaculture?
1. Earth Care 2. People Care 3. Return of surplus
What is Permaculture?
Must differentiate from:
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THE DESIGN
“A beneficial assembly of components in their proper relationships”
SOCIAL COMPONENTS
Legal Aids
People Culture
Trade and Finance
ENERGY COMPONENTS
Technologies Structures Sources
Connections
ABSTRACT COMPONENTS
Timing Data Ethics
SITE COMPONENTS
Water Earth
Landscape Plants
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Design Process
1. Determine goals 2. Determine the context 3. Design 4. Implement 5. Start over…
Design Methods
• Observation – Non-selective – Thematic
Yeoman’s Scale of Permanence
1. Climate 2. Land shapes 3. Water 4. Access 5. Trees 6. Structure 7. Subdivision Fences 8. Soil
Design Methods
• Observation – Non-selective – Thematic – Instrumental
Design Methods
• Analysis
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Design Methods
• Deduction from nature – Structure
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Design Methods
• Deduction from nature – Structure – Processes
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Design Methods
• Zone and Sector Analysis
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Principles as Guidelines
1. Observe and interact 2. Catch and store energy 3. Obtain a yield 4. Apply self regulation and accept feedback 5. Use and value renewable resources and services 6. Produce no waste 7. Design from pattern to details 8. Integrate rather than segregate 9. Use small and slow solutions 10. Use and value diversity 11. Use edges and value the marginal 12. Creatively use and respond to change
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