The document discusses the goals and designs for turning a family farm into a more sustainable homestead using permaculture principles. Some key points: - The farm owner analyzed the property and identified new garden bed opportunities, including a spiral three sisters garden designed to take advantage of natural water flows. - Raised beds have been constructed out of cedar and cinder blocks for growing herbs and potatoes. - A mobile chicken tractor will be used to rotate chickens for both meat and fertilizing. - A goat herd provides milk, cheese, soaps and manure for fertilizer while being bred and managed for population control. - Vegetable gardens utilize aquaponics, raised beds and seasonal patches to provide a

2. GOALS ARTICULATION
I began this process with consideration to what already exist at my families “ol’ dirty farm” and features that I’d like to see added over time as we turn it into
a sustainable homestead. By breaking down these elements into different categories I was able to better understand the needs that will help us in becoming
more self reliant moving forward as stated by Peter Bane In Chapter 4, “Permaculture practice involves the
disciplined application of ethics and of principles which, with mastery, become
so familiar that we can think of and apply them all simultaneously”

3. Through my site analysis I began to see opportunities I hadn’t before on the property for more garden beds. The direction in which the water flows
on my property and the video I watched week one on Suburban Permaculture gave me the idea to include a spiral three sisters garden on the side of
my house that will receive the amount of sunlight needed & through the spiral design it will now serve as a water catchment as the rains will now
flow right through and around the spiral. This will allow the three sisters garden to flourish with little input from me besides harvesting. I am also
in the midst of prepping areas for our much desired Fruit Tree Guilds next to some shady trees to eventually provide us with a multitude of crops in
its Polyculture

4. In the last 2 weeks I have started a Spiral 3 sisters garden to the area
beside our home where the water flows naturally. I strategically have
the opening of the spiral where the water will flow and continue to
fill the spiral as it rains. I feel with its location and the design it will
be very successful this growing season. i Plan to add Cleome to the
exterior of the spiral as a squash beetle deterrent as I learned in
reading the Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane,
“Planting in guilds”, page 228
The Mobile Chicken Tractor will become the best used
design moving forward for rotating Roosters for meat & It
will also serve a great purpose in moving around the
property while slowly & methodically fertilizing the ground
behind it with their manure’s and scratching of the ground
My best 2 final schematic
designs are now in motion
here on the homestead
and here are a few reasons
I placed them in their
locations within my final
site design.

6. USE AND VALUE NATURE’S GIFT
• OUR NIGERIAN DWARF DAIRY GOAT HERD IS THE CORNERSTONE IN
OUR PURSUIT OF SELF-RELIANCE LIVING. THROUGH BREEDING THEY
PROVIDE US WITH ADDED NUMBERS TO HELP WITH BROWSING THE
BRUSH ON SITE & ALSO THE POTENTIAL TO SELL OR TRADE KIDS TO
OTHER INTERESTED HERDSMAN
• WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCUBATE OUR OWN CROSSBREED (NEW
HAMPSHIRE RED/ LEGHORN) TO MAKE A CHICKEN THAT IS UNIQUE
TO OUR HOMESTEAD.
Get a yield (or harvest)
 Our vegetable gardens are grown in varying ways all year through our
Aquaponics, raised beds and seasonal veggie patches
 Our Goat herd provides us milk to drink as well as the ability to make
many by-products like cheese & soaps. Their Manure’s & old bedding
are worked back into our compost & soil providing needed nutrients for
our vegetable gardens to grow in abundance
 Our pastured poultry provides us eggs & meat. Their bedding has also
been enriched in their manure’s which is returned to our compost & soil
PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
OL’ DIRTY FARM

7. Raised Cedar Grow Bed
We planked our own cedar to make this raised bed on site with a chainsaw mill attachment. I have enough to
make one more bed like this and will look to harvest more cedar in the future on our property to continue
making these beds as we can. This particular bed will be used for herbs such as Rosemary and Thyme
Raised Cinder Block Grow Bed
We took cinder blocks from an old house skirt to make this Raised Potato
grow bed. We’ll continue to add hay on top of the plants as they grow. I plan
to plant Crackerjack Marigold’s in the holes provided by the blocks and Mint
in every other hole to deter ants and other insects. After the Potato plants have
died back 2/3’s of the way down I will pull the cinder blocks back on both
sides to make it easy to harvest our Potato crop

8. ol’ dirty BARN
We keep the ol’ dirty herd separated with Bucks on one side and Does on the other. We always keep
them separated even when going to remote pastures. We only bring them together in time for breeding
so we can control the time of year they will be kidding as well as keeping the Milk fresh with no smells
from the Bucks. The Does come into heat every 21 days so it is vital to keep them this way on our
property. We also have a milk stand we built from scratch and a Kids nursery next to it for the little
one’s til they are a big enough to stay in the stalls with the bigger Goats

9. MILLET
-Millet