Permaculture for Farmers

   
   
      
      Ecological Production by Design




                 Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm
            Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture

                Terra Genesis                         Apios
                International                         Institute
Permaculture for Farmers
Permaculture Design


• Definition   -   Ethics   -   Principles
The Permaculture Pie
                                                 biochar/
                           bioremediation       terra preta
            composting &                                       aquaculture
                                                                              food forestry
             compost tea
 coppice                                                                                   perennial
woodcrafts                                                                                vegetables
& biomass
                                                                                              apiculture


  keyline                                                                                 mycoscaping

  management-                                                                            alternative
intensive grazing                                                                        currencies
                                                                         edible forest
                    earthworks
                                                                          gardening
                                 natural building
                                                    green architecture
•   ]
Design Tools

• Zones of Use
• Sector Analysis
• Keyline Design
Zones of Use
Camp
Zone 1
Zone 1


     Zone 2
Zone 1


     Zone 2
              Zone 3
Zone 1


     Zone 2
              Zone 3
                       Zone 4
Sector Analysis
Sector Thinking:
  Windbreaks
Sector Thinking:
  Windbreaks
            Zone 1
Keyline Design
Keyline:   Catch+store
Catch
and
Store
Energy




                     Source:  Permaculture:
                         A Designers Manual
Yobarnie
Keyline Plow
Keyline Design
Sunday 1:00pm - Campus Center 804-08




                Carbon Farmers of America
Permaculture for Farmers
Crop Design Process
Crop Design Process
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
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
Perennial Vegetables
• Permaculture Principle:
          Least effort for large effect
• Plants w/ a 3-3000+ year lifespan
• Not destroyed by harvesting
•
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
Some (More) Common
                 Perennial Vegetables




Nettle           Asparagus    Rhubarb            French sorrel
Urtica dioica    Asparagus    Rheum x cultorum   Rumex acetosa
                 officinalis


                                                          Slide: Eric Toensmeier
Sea Kale




(Crambe maritima)
Multiplier Onion (Allium cepa-aggregatum)




                        •   Shallot, walking onion,
                                chive, garlic chives
Skirret
(Sium sisarum)
Climbing Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides)
Climbing Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides)




Go see Jonathan @
Food Forest Farm Tent!
Berries
Currants
(Ribes spp.)
Juneberry
(Amelanchier spp.)
Orchard Fruits
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
Mulberry – Morus spp.
Pears (Pyrus spp.)




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Nuts
Chestnut
Pine Nut
Hazelnut
 (Corylus spp.)
Hazelnut
 (Corylus spp.)
Animals
Pigs
Pigs
Chickens
Fungi
Winecap Strophaia
Shitake




          Oyster
Support Crops

Types            Functions
• Trees          • Biomass
• Shrubs         • Accumulators
• Groundcovers   • Insectaries
Trees
Black & Honey Locust
Grey & Italian Alder
Grey & Italian Alder
Willow
Shrubs
Pea Shrub
Seaberry
(Hippophae rhamnoides)
Goumi
Groundcovers
Trefoil(s)
Comfrey(s)
Comfrey(s)
Insectaries
Landscape Pattern:

Production Polyculture




     Species

     •   Plants, animals, fungi
Vegetable Block:

                        Salad Hedge




Species

•   Fresh eating: Linden, mulberry, sassafrass; saltbush, carolina silverbell

•   Cooked: Goji, fragrant spring tree, pea shrub
Vegetable Block:

Salad Hedge
Vegetable Block:

Salad Hedge
Orchard/Forest Garden:

Uncommon Fruit Orchard
Pawpaw




   Asian
   Pear




         Hazelnut
Orchard/Forest Garden:

    Uncommon Fruit Orchard




Comfrey, chive, sorrel, anise hyssop, and chicory groundcover
MOFGA Fairgrounds,
Unity, ME




                     Alley Cropping:

           Fruit trees & annuals
Alley Cropping:

Fruit trees & annuals




                    • Apples, plums, pears
                    • Pea shrub, grass, clover
                    • Sweet peppers, kale
Windbreak:

Nut Pines
Windbreak:

Nut Pines & Fruit
Agroforestry:

  Pancake Polyculture
  Birch
          Black
          Walnut


 Sugar                             Understory
 Maple                                Fruits:
                                     Black raspberry,
           Oak                         Red currant,
                                   Black currant
                        Chestnut
Pawpaw

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Agroforestry:

Kazakh Mimic
Agroforestry:

Kazakh Mimic
Prairie Mimic:

The Land Institute


                Species
                • Wild Senna
                • Illinois bundleflower
                • Hybrid sorghum
                • Maximilian sunflower
                • Leymus racemosus
                • Tripsacum dactyloides
Silvopasture:

Red Pine, Cows, Grass
Silvopasture:

                                         Pigs & Nuts




Species

•   Heritage-breed pigs

•   Pasture grass & legume mix

•   Black walnut, butternut, heartnut, chestnut, hickory, northern pecan, oak
Silvopasture:

                Pigs & Nuts




Polyface Farm
Rotational Grazing:

Animal Tractors
Rotational Grazing:

Animal Tractors




                          Polyface Farm
Rotational Grazing:

        Animal Tractors




Stone Barns Center
Aquaculture:

                                             Tilapia / Tropics
                                         CH_CS_fish1




Cascade Systems
Wadenswil Agriculture Research Station, Switzerland
                                                        Photo: Ethan Roland
Tilapia




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CH_CS_waterflow




                 Photo: Ethan Roland
Aquaponics
           CH_CS_parsley


Tomatoes          Parsley




                            Photo: Ethan Roland
CH_CS_papaya
CH_CS_banana
Landscape                     Production
Pattern                       Polyculture
•   Vegetable Blocks          •   Salad Hedge
•   Berry Blocks              •   Mini-thickets
•   Orchard / Forest Garden   •   Uncommon orchard
•   Alley cropping            •   Fruit trees & animals
•   Agroforestry              •   Pancake polyculture
•   Windbreaks                •   Korean nut pine
•   Prarie mimic              •   Land Institute
•   Silvopasture              •   Pigs & nuts
•   Rotational Grazing        •   Animal tractor
•   Aquaculture               •   Tilapia/tropics
Permaculture for Farmers
Eco-Ag Design Tool
Next Steps

• Permaculture Track @ NOFA-SC
• Northeastern Permaculture Wiki:
 • www.nepc.wikispaces.com
• Permaculture Design Course
• Consulting w/ Benneth & Ethan
Questions?




     Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm
Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture
Permaculture for Farmers

   
   
      
      Ecological Production by Design




                 Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm
            Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture

                Regenerative                          Apios
                Design Group                          Institute

Permaculture for Farmers v3: Crops, Patterns, Polycultures