A young family wants to make a change and asked two different landscape design teams to design their landscape for healthy fruits and vegetables, nuts and eggs. The two companies create designs and got back with the couple. The video shows the results and below you can easily see the connections and benefits the permaculture design took into the family’s consideration.
Where the traditional design does meet the family’s needs, the permaculture design take a practical look at the landscape, the couple’s desires, and joins them together with harmonious interaction. Here are some of the connections:
Chicken house:
At a spot in the property where it will eventually leach nutrients down slope into the landscape.
Captures it’s own water.
Deep bedding method so the whole thing is a egg making compost generator.
Greenhouse A:
Grow food all year.
Doubles as a plant nursery.
Greenhouse B:
Heats and cools home by providing a buffer zone and convection.
Cleanses grey water.
Grows nutrient dense tropical food plants because it has a microclimate that can do that.
Adds additional living space to the home.
Orchard / Food forest:
Captures it’s own water by designing it with the slope of the landscape.
Fertilized by both chicken system and support species.
Ecosystem design to maximum yield.
Once established it is almost a zero work system.
Wilfdlife habitat.
Nature area for a sense of well being.
Real long term low maintenance food security
Garden and crops:
You garden more efficiently when you have to walk through the garden to get into the house.
Utilizes keyhole gardens with one entry/rotation point instead of rectangular garden that needs to be worked from the outside perimeter.
The darker green areas are support species that are filled with nitrogen and nutrient accumulating species as well as pollinator attractors and beneficial predatory insect attractors to aid in suppressing pests and to create wildlife habitat with an ecosystem rather than monoculture.
Vegetables washing station near home entry to maximize work efficiency that also uses the wash water to keep worm farm moist. The culling of leaves and plants from the garden go into the worm farm to feed the worms. The worm farm has a drain at the bottom so they can harvest the worm juice after each wash.
Water tanks:
Catches drinkable and irrigation water from the roof.
Pumped out with a solar powered pump.
Irrigates garden with simple low tech, low cost, efficient system.
Chicken system:
Creates low work natural fertilizer.
De-pests growing areas
De-weeds growing areas
Feeds chickens
Compost area:
Along with the chicken house it serves as a organic nutrient cycling area.
Gives quicker compost for garden needs
Feeds chickens
Store:
The city ordinances allow having a store/stand of some types to sell directly to the public.
Parking area captures run off water for food forest
Community is established with sales
Money is made
Community area:
Comfortable outside living space
outdoor cooking area
A visually and aesthetically pleasing area for the family and visitors
Meeting area
As you can see there are a lot of connections made in a permaculture design that will benefit this family, the soil, wildlife, and the environment. And this example could be used for a standard suburban lot up to around an acre or so of land. But it does not stop there. A baby boomer couple has now called upon a conventional agriculture consultant and a permaculture consultant to design their farm. This should be a show down of exciting designs and the results should be in soon.
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"utilizing its chickenness" lol
If bugs aren't interested in eating a plant (or if they do and their guts explode) then I'm not interested in eating that plant either. Case closed. It does not matter to me what the pro-argument for GMO is. Clearly pro-GMO folks are not as smart as bugs.
I have read many comments about how GMOs are not that bad. However, in practice the vast majority of GMO plants are modified to survive chemical farming methods. So, the plant itself is not toxic. But, it allows cultural practices that produce food contaminated with industrial chemicals. Roundup ready soybeans, for example.
I choose the colorful one
can we do this type of design for hyper arid and arid climates in for example Middle east ?
this is insanely Awesome …. so sry for my bad english :d
Not enought space for chikens laying "too" many eggs that they will need to sell them. The less chicken the better. More than 3/4 is too much for that garden.
Cool ideas. I do think the young couple with the baby should be able to run into their house without having to take a stroll through the garden, especially when they have health issues and allergies. And the chickens could come a little farther from the sidewalk where they are likely to either get loose or face complaints from the neighbors.
How much did you pay for the permaculture design plan? Can you send me a link to the company?
Sorry. You lost me at fear of GMO's.
How do you go about installing the trees, earthworks, coops, fencing, etc? I am looking to begin designing properties and people have expressed interest but I'm not sure on the installation side of things.
lol ……Chickeness!!!
Excellent video. Thank you. How's the site doing right now? Do you have a site tour or should I expect you'll give a real site tour of your property. That'd help a lot. Appreciate that.
If possible, please make more videos like this? Drawing out potential architecture ideas. I like it a lot. Helps you to put it all into perspective.
Too bad you couldn't present your info without being so pretentious.
AWSOME!
The more I read and study permaculture, the more I feel like it is a fuzzy feel good pseudo- science that stems from a greater cultural illness.
Y-you know what GMOs are right?
They cut genes from one plant and put it into another to share their characteristics, basically oh look out carrots are getting fucked up by bugs but they cant even touch these radishes. Cut and paste , there we go 99.99%, Carrot 0.01% Radish and NO BUGS.
Hurr durr TOXINS IN MAH KIDS
Absolute wrong relation of locations of trees towards the greenhouses in relation to the Sun. Come on!!