Permaculture Principles
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
I've been at an advanced permaculture course with David Holmgren and today we unpacked, critiqued and revalued his 12 principles. Here I set them out with a selection of photos Meg and I have taken over the past couple of weeks.
1. Observe and interact.
Clover flowers amid eucalypt leaf litter.
2. Catch and store energy.
Renewable, local energies.
3. Obtain a yield.
Home garden harvest within chicken run.
4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
Community garden principles of take and return.
5. Use and value renewable resources and services.
Local food production and renewable transportation.
6. Produce no waste.
Easier to do in less affluent localities.
7. Design from patterns to details.
Parasitical relations; native cherry and friend.
8. Integrate rather than segregate.
Public (guerilla planted) broad beans.
9. Use small and slow solutions.
Bike maintenance workshop, DNC
10. Use and value diversity.
Today's course participants.
11. Use edges and value the marginal.
Jaara bush tucker; native cherry (turns red)
12. Creatively use and respond to change.
Design principles exercise, 4.45pm
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