Permaculture is a design science that integrates all life kingdoms into productive ecosystems and socially just environments, promoting energy efficiency and biodiversity. It emphasizes shifting from consumption to production, even on a small scale, such as in personal gardens, to create sustainable food systems. Key principles include relative location, multiple functions for each element, and utilizing biological resources while promoting diversity and ecological health.

1. Permaculture Design

2. What is Permaculture? " “ Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” By Bill Mollison

3. Permaculture is the harmonious integration of all life kingdoms into agriculturally productive ecosystems and socially just environments, producing sound economic consequences. It’s a design science reflecting patterns in Nature that seeks to build interconnections allowing for energy efficiency and abundance of yield.

4. The Design Process

5. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren 1978 Landmark publication Permaculture One begins movement

6. Bill’s Inspirations

7. Huge Monocultures No Diversity- Globalization

8. FOREST

9. FIELD

10. PLOW

11. DESERT

12. Which way will we go??

13. Design Science “ A beneficial assembly of components in their proper relationships”

17. In commerce

18. zones ...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter." - Bill Mollison

20. Permaculture Principles

21. Relative Location- Making Interrelationships

22. Multiple Functions for Every Element Mulberry Tree: Shade Forage Food Nutrient absorber Protection Soil Builder Entertainment

23. Multiple Elements for Every Function ( slow and sink water) Rain Garden Rain Cisterns

24. SWALES Swales are water harvesting ditches and mounds on contour .

25. Chinampas: Reconstructed Wetlands Ditch and Mound Increase land increase water Increase productivity

26. Contour Hedgerow

27. DAMS GABIONS

28. Keyline Design

29. GreyWater

30. Energy Efficient Planning

31. zones Zone- Placing Elements in our Design based on Intensity of Use

32. Sector Analysis - Mapping wild, oncoming energies Wind (Summer and Winter) Sun (Summer and Winter) Noise Pollution View Wildlife Fire

34. Nitrogen Fixing Plants

35. Bacteria ‘nodules’ growing on roots of Nitrogen Fixing plant Fungus is the glue of the soil. 90% of plants have an association with a mychorrizal fungi

37. Use of Biological Resources Chicken Tractor Weeding Fertilizing Tilling

39. Dill- Umbelliferous Family Daisy-Aster Family with Lady Bugs Biological Resources- Beneficial Insects

40. Energy Cycling Source To Sink

42. Small Scale Intensive 20 million Victory Gardens in 1943 They were producing 41% of the vegetables being consumed in the USA

43. Food Not Lawns A house with two cars, a dog, and a lawn uses more resources and energy than a village of 2000 Africans.

45. Diversity Natural Forest Forest Gardening

46. Forest Gardening

47. Avocado-Canopy Comfrey-Herbaceous Elderberry-Sub Canopy

48. Currants-Shrub Layer Sunchoke-Rhizosphere Purslane-Ground Cover Passion Fruit- Vine

49. Time and Plant Stacking

50. Time and Plant Stacking

51. Time and Plant Stacking

53. Time and Plant Stacking

54. Time and Plant Stacking

55. Time and Plant Stacking

56. Time and Plant Stacking

57. Time and Plant Stacking

58. Time and Plant Stacking

59. Time and Plant Stacking

60. Accelerating Succession

61. Orchard with swale and N2 fixers

62. Edible Landscaping- Diversity Calcium levels about ten times as much as banana or apple Paw Paw- Asimina triloba

63. Edible Landscaping Corneilian Cherry- Cornus mas High Vitamin C Content

64. Edible Landscaping Saskatoon Berry- Amelanchier alnifolia Higher levels of protein, fat, and fiber than most other fruit

65. Edible Landscaping Black Chokeberry- Aronia melanocarpa Remarkable high antioxidant activity

66. Edible Landscaping Hardy kiwi- Actinidia polygama Rich in Antioxidants Vitamin E content twice that of Avocado and 60% of calories

68. Guild design

69. Edge Effect

70. Edge Effect

71. Protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor Least Change for Greatest Affect

72. Don’t fight the weeds, grow the weeds ! Cover Cropping

73. Mulching Feeds Soil Organisms Regulates Soil Temperature and Humidity Protects from Erosion

74. Tree Crops

75. Urban Permaculture

77. The Design Process