Permaculture for Farmers: Crops, Patterns, Polycultures. Presented at the 2010 Northeast Organic Farming Association Conference by Ethan Roland and Benneth Phelps - read more and donwload resources at http://www.appleseedpermaculture.com/blog
Permaculture for Farmers v3: Crops, Patterns, Polycultures
1. Permaculture for Farmers
Ecological Production by Design
Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm
Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture
Terra Genesis Apios
International Institute
25. Key Concepts
" A geographic group of
site-level ecosystems."
-Bailey, 1998
"The growing of more than
species or crop in the same
space at the same time"
-Jacke & Toensmeier, 2005
26.
27. Main Crops
• Annuals (Starting and Managing a CSA with Permaculture
Principles, Sunday 8:00am Campus center 803)
• Perennials
• Berries
• Orchard fruits
• Nuts
• Animals (fish, fowl, ruminants)
• Fungi
28. Perennial Vegetables
• Permaculture Principle:
Least effort for large effect
• Plants w/ a 3-3000+ year lifespan
• Not destroyed by harvesting
•
29. Perennial Vegetables
LOW MAINTENANCE
• Only plant once
• Years of harvests
• No digging or tilling
• Resist pests, weeds, drought
• Extend harvest season
• Excellent yield/time
Slide: Eric Toensmeier
30. Some (More) Common
Perennial Vegetables
Nettle Asparagus Rhubarb French sorrel
Urtica dioica Asparagus Rheum x cultorum Rumex acetosa
officinalis
Slide: Eric Toensmeier
83. Agroforestry:
Pancake Polyculture
Birch
Black
Walnut
Sugar Understory
Maple Fruits:
Black raspberry,
Oak Red currant,
Black currant
Chestnut
Pawpaw
83
86. Prairie Mimic:
The Land Institute
Species
• Wild Senna
• Illinois bundleflower
• Hybrid sorghum
• Maximilian sunflower
• Leymus racemosus
• Tripsacum dactyloides
107. Questions?
Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm
Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture
108. Permaculture for Farmers
Ecological Production by Design
Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm
Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture
Regenerative Apios
Design Group Institute