Toolkit, Design Toolkit and Tools for the Permaculture Designer

These are the site and design tools that I use for my Permaculture work: TOOLKIT -Binoculars -25’/50’/100’ tape measures -Torpedo level -Project Plus Builder’s Calculator -Knife sharpener -IPhone -Silva Compass -2 line levels -2 grafting knives -Plumb bob -Small round table level -Pitch and angle locator -Fisherman’s vest -Small first aid kit -Clear tubing with [...]

Permaculture and the Three Epochs Curriculum

Minor Landscape: Volcanic, High and Low Island, Coasts, Wetlands and Estuaries. Volcanic: Volcanic slopes have a repeated angle of repose which 64 degrees; this steepness needs careful application of design to retain stability. The traditional Ohana system achieved this with long wedge shaped village lands designed and maintained from forested top slopes down through multiple [...]

Our Suburban Homestead: Trees Arrive! We Plant!

Our Suburban Homestead Moves Ahead: Notes from Carbondale, Illinois

Trees arriving today: cherries, paw paw, Asian pears, figs, almonds, blueberries, strawberries (ain’t a tree), lingon berries, filberts, goji berries, plums, rosa rugosa, rhubarb (ain’t a tree), persimmon, etc. Remember that this is all happening on a sixth of an acre with minimal amounts of work. The holes for the trees are already prepared. Many [...]

Permaculture and the Three Epochs Curriculum

Scarps and wadis feature long vertical cliffs with angular (usually 30 degrees) pediments at their base, and rise out of the lower erosion surface below, often called the peneplain. The wadis emerge out of the scarp cliffs, face at right angles and branch at near right angles further up inside the wadis. Water is often [...]