This document provides details on a final presentation for a permaculture design project. It includes sections on goal articulation, site analysis, permaculture principles, crop choices, nutrient cycling, and integrating and connecting. The overall goal is to supplement the household and community while reducing waste and energy use. The site is small but has strengths like microclimates and existing groundcover. Key principles are redundancy, multiple functions, and integrating rather than segregating elements. Selected crops include vegetables, fruits, grains, and proteins. Nutrient cycling methods incorporate composting and water retention. The final goal is to connect with others in the community through shared learning about food and gardening.

1. Final Presentation
1. Goal Articulation
2. Site Analysis
3. Permaculture Principles
4. Crop Choices
5. Nutrient Cycling
6. Integrate and Connect

2. Goal Articulation
● My major goal in this design is not to become
totally self sufficient but to supplement my
household and give back a bit to my
community while reducing waste and energy
use.
● I'd know that I have achieved my goals when I
successful obtain a yield, give back to my
neighbors, and spend less time taking out
trash/driving to grocery store and water bill
goes down.

3. Goal Articulation
● Another important aspect of my goals is to
include wildlife space for insects, birds and
other small animals.

4. Site Analysis
● My permaculture site is full of challenges and
also strengths. It is fairly narrow and small,
mostly part sun. There are many options
though for creative space use, micro climates,
relatively flat, covered already in wildflowers
and nitrogen fixers. The soil is compact but
once fixed, would be great over time. The site
is protect from the northwest winds in the
winter and has two sources of water from the
roof during storms.

5. Sample of Workspace

6. Permaculture Principles
● There are 3 principles I'd like to mainly focus
on: Redundancy, Multiple Functions, and
Integrate rather than segregate
● Redundancy: I want to incorporate a multitude
of companion community plantings, with slight
differences in each (be it variety, or pollinator
species mixed in, or one species exchanged
for another). So not one species dominates
and try to maximize companion benefits.

7. Permaculture Principles
● Multiple Functions: I would seriously need to
be creative in my tight space for it to be
successful I'd use my fences which define the
property for vertical growing space. The fruit
trees will have multiple cultivators grafted onto
them to better. Certain crops enrich soil with
nitrogen. Companion planting helps stack
functions. Any chance we get, we will use for
multiple things.

8. Permaculture Principles
● Integrate than Segregate: I think this is our
biggest principle for this sight. We don't have
the space to have big plots of even mixed
crops. So we need to condense, we need to
stack functions, we need to sacrifice a little
from everything. If we added quail, the birds
would freely roam the garden, enrich soil, help
keep pests and weeds away. Companion
planting saves space and adds benefits.
Grafting saves space. Our neighbors would be
a next step to integrate and possibly take
some of their waste and turn it into garden
food.

9. Crops
● Veggies: Onions, Peppers, Broccoli, Spinach,
Tomato, Carrots, Winter Squash (pumpkins),
Beans, Peas, Lettuce
● Fruit: Apples, Plums, Strawberry, Peach,
Grapes
● Calorie: Quinoa, Potato, Corn
● Protein: Soybean, Chickpea, Beans

10. Crops
● I chose the crops that I did based on what we
normally eat, and some things we want to try
as well. We've grown almost all of these
things in our lot before (or currently) except
carrots and chickpeas so we know it can. And
with soil improvements, proper placement, we
can get it to thrive I believe. We have a good
variety of grain, calorie, protein, fruit, and
veggies that are ready throughout the year
rather than at one time.

11. Nutrient Cycling
● I'd like our garden to be a sink when it comes
to organic waste collection. I would
incorporate worm composting, chop and
dropping, no till work, and maybe if it is
efficient enough, start taking neighbors
kitchen scraps as well. Nothing produced in
the yard will end up in a trash can. Water as
well will be slowed and used wisely using
gabions and swales. Collected in rain barrels.
Sunlight as well will try to be used most
efficiently with planting placement and
layering.

12. Integrate and Connect
● Finally, as part of my goal, connecting to those
around me will cap off my garden. Starting
with the people I live with. We can learn
together how to cook again, how to grow food,
reduce waste of products and energy. We can
bond with our neighbors that we do not know
very well at all. And from their, maybe set up a
stand at the farmers market and teach others
how to garden.

13. Thank You