The document discusses elements of permaculture design including sectors, zones, and the scale of permanence. It encourages the reader to observe elements in their landscape based on the scale of permanence, which ranks elements from most to least permanent. These elements include climate, landforms, water features, infrastructure, trees, structures, and views. It then discusses mapping sectors based on these elements and designing zones centered around the user to minimize energy expenditure. The reader is assigned to complete a blog post synthesizing their notes and then begin the unit 2 week 2 assignment.

1. Okay, back to our agenda!
• ELEMENTS
List the elements (nouns)
that
you noticed last week
during your observation.
(Sun, wind, view, fire
danger, frost heaves are
also elements)

2. How permanent is each
element?
• Did each element seem happy?
• In your observations, did you notice
anything that seemed unhappy? Too
crowded? Too alone? Too……
• What could you move? Change?
• How could you make each
• element happy ?

3. There once was a man named
PA Yeomans
• Permaculture owes a lot to this man.
Through trial and error and lots of
observation, Persival Alfred (PA)
developed what he called a “Scale of
Permanence”

4. Scale of Permanence
Thanks, Owen, for the graphic

5. Those
are the basic elements
• Did you note all of those things last
week when you observed?
• Don’t worry. I’m going to give
you a chance to do it again.

6. I’m getting tired….
Are you?
Why don’t you take
a break, dream about
a nice place to be.
Grab a snack or a cup of tea
While you are dreaming.

7. Our LAST agenda item:
• Sectors and Zones
Do a little dance, sing a little song!
Get done tonight! Get done tonight!

8. SECTORS are exactly that

9. If you look back at Yeomans
Scale of Permanence
• You simply map those elements starting at
the top.
• Climate: sun/wind/snow/fire
• Landshape: slope
• Water:
• Roads for animals and people
• Trees (if there are a lot)
• Structures and views
• (you don’t have to map soils)

10. Zones
• Are all about YOU. Since you are an
element in a system, you need to place
any new elements closest to you.
• Permaculture is all about saving energy
and with ZONES, we’re talking about
YOUR energy.

11. The things that take the
most attention/energy from
you should be the closest
to you.
Source

12. Usually you see ZONES
shown like this.
However, it’s
Never this neat!
Source

13. And now…..
for a quick lecture!
Insert lecture on relationships

14. So, now are you ready?
It’s time for your assignment!
OOPS. First things first!
Of course, you should do your Blog Post first.
Go back over your notes and synthesize them, make
them YOURS, integrate the information you’ve gleaned,
Then POST to your blog! I’ll be looking forward to
reading them! (They usually tell me what I forgot to tell
you! :-)

15. See you later!
I’ll catch you over at
Unit2 Week 2 Assignment
Whenever you are ready.
Don’t you just love
a-synchronous classes?
I do!