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Upcoming Field Day Mt Kembla NSW JUNE 17
Tour our demonstration site, cook on the Rocket Stove Fagao de Lena, and cover basics with practical application. TICKETS FREE FOR STUDENTS OF PERMACULTURE VISIONS. Please book your place.
Get your ticket here https://events.humanitix.com/permaculture-design-skills-integrating-elements
Draw your site up using a web of triangles. Not everyone has a site without any trees and a clear aerial map of the area. With this technique you can draw the area, locate key structures and be able to plan changes with accuracy.
This tutorial also shows you how to work out your own scale for the map.
(Edited by kirsten wolf - original submission Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 7:02 PM)
Get your ticket for the upcoming field day (online) https://events.humanitix.com/harnessing-natural-resources-0ykp5ev6 FREE for students and graduates of PermacultureVisions
Designing from scratch and don't know where to start? Here you will build 4 permaculture skills to determine risk and design to turn untapped resources into abundance!
In these 4 sessions you will be actively part of a permaculture design team conducting a risk assessment, identifying natural resource flows and integrate elements to build an efficient permaculture design.
A valuable part of permaculture design includes assessment of site resources - the strengths, risks, opportunities and constraints. In this online field day we harvest observations on your own site, assess risks and discover opportunities. This course has expert input from Professional Ergonomist, risk analyst for social enterprises, and Permaculture teacher Lizzy Smith.
"Did you say online Field Day?"
How can that be? we know that sounds impossible but given current Corona conditions and the fact that everyone is based far and wide from one another - lets give this a go.
This is our first attempt to have an online field day. Updated details are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIFzI-z0QFw_ksAMWPfImTGKcsUMs6ClhVTCvUgwCFg/edit#gid=344569417
copy of draft is here:
Permaculture Design Field Day - Jan - Online and in own field/site sections | |||||||||||
| 15 | Natural Resource Flow | 18 | Existing features | 19 | SWOC | 20 | Risk Analysis | ||||
| presentation | presentation | presentation | presentation | ||||||||
| Why | |||||||||||
| There are 3 main reasons to be working together today. Firstly, you, as the client gets input for your design. Secondly, you get to work as a design team and build your own design skills. Thirdly, our upcoming textbook called the Field Guide to Permaculture Design, gets some more chapters tested. | |||||||||||
| Context | |||||||||||
Today we will explore 4 chapters of the Field Guide to Permaculture Design. In total there are 50 Steps. You can see all the steps here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIFzI-z0QFw_ksAMWPfImTGKcsUMs6ClhVTCvUgwCFg/edit#gid=0 The reason why we are doing these 4 chapters is because the client has already considered the ethics behind her drive to create a design. She, and her family (the stakeholders of the design) are ready to move to the next step. | |||||||||||
What to do | |||||||||||
| Please read each chapter, set for todays workshop ready to discuss the task with the team and together we will complete the worksheet. | |||||||||||
Workshop Program | LINKS | equipment desired | outcomes | ||||||||
| 10:00 AM | meet and greet, morning tea | ||||||||||
| 10:15 | outline of days events | ||||||||||
| 10:30 | 1st topic - Natural Resource Flow | clipboard, note paper and pencils | map with resource flow | ||||||||
| 11:00 | 2nd topic - Existing features | drawing paper, pencils | highlighted features | ||||||||
| 12:00 | lunch | ||||||||||
| 12:30 | 3rd topic - SWOC | note paper, pen | SWOC CHART | ||||||||
| 1:00 | 4th topic - Risk Analysis | note paper, pen | Highlighted risks | ||||||||
| 1.45 | afternoon tea | ||||||||||
| 2:00 | end | ||||||||||
This workshop is free for everyone enrolled in the moodle and $180 for each participant not enrolled with us.
Participants limited to 12