Permaculture for Farmers v3: Crops, Patterns, Polycultures
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The document provides a comprehensive overview of permaculture principles and practices for farmers, highlighting ecological production and design. It covers a range of topics such as crop design processes, types of perennial vegetables, agroforestry, silvopasture, and various design tools and methods. Additionally, it offers insights into practical applications and resources for implementing permaculture in farming.
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- 1. Permaculture for Farmers Ecological Production by Design Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture Terra Genesis Apios International Institute
- 3. Permaculture Design • Definition - Ethics - Principles
- 4. 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
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- 6. Design Tools • Zones of Use • Sector Analysis • Keyline Design
- 7. Zones of Use
- 8. Camp
- 9. Zone 1
- 10. Zone 1 Zone 2
- 11. Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3
- 12. Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 4
- 13. Sector Analysis
- 14. Sector Thinking: Windbreaks
- 15. Sector Thinking: Windbreaks Zone 1
- 16. Keyline Design
- 17. Keyline: Catch+store Catch and Store Energy Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual
- 18. Yobarnie
- 19. Keyline Plow
- 21. Keyline Design Sunday 1:00pm - Campus Center 804-08 Carbon Farmers of America
- 25. 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
- 27. 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
- 28. Perennial Vegetables • Permaculture Principle: Least effort for large effect • Plants w/ a 3-3000+ year lifespan • Not destroyed by harvesting •
- 29. 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
- 30. Some (More) Common Perennial Vegetables Nettle Asparagus Rhubarb French sorrel Urtica dioica Asparagus Rheum x cultorum Rumex acetosa officinalis Slide: Eric Toensmeier
- 32. Multiplier Onion (Allium cepa-aggregatum) • Shallot, walking onion, chive, garlic chives
- 34. Climbing Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides)
- 35. Climbing Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides) Go see Jonathan @ Food Forest Farm Tent!
- 36. Berries
- 39. Orchard Fruits
- 41. Mulberry – Morus spp.
- 42. Pears (Pyrus spp.) 42
- 43. Nuts
- 44. Chestnut
- 45. Pine Nut
- 48. Animals
- 49. Pigs
- 50. Pigs
- 51. Chickens
- 52. Fungi
- 54. Shitake Oyster
- 55. Support Crops Types Functions • Trees • Biomass • Shrubs • Accumulators • Groundcovers • Insectaries
- 56. Trees
- 57. Black & Honey Locust
- 58. Grey & Italian Alder
- 59. Grey & Italian Alder
- 60. Willow
- 61. Shrubs
- 62. Pea Shrub
- 64. Goumi
- 65. Groundcovers
- 66. Trefoil(s)
- 67. Comfrey(s)
- 68. Comfrey(s)
- 69. Insectaries
- 73. Landscape Pattern: Production Polyculture Species • Plants, animals, fungi
- 74. Vegetable Block: Salad Hedge Species • Fresh eating: Linden, mulberry, sassafrass; saltbush, carolina silverbell • Cooked: Goji, fragrant spring tree, pea shrub
- 77. Orchard/Forest Garden: Uncommon Fruit Orchard Pawpaw Asian Pear Hazelnut
- 78. Orchard/Forest Garden: Uncommon Fruit Orchard Comfrey, chive, sorrel, anise hyssop, and chicory groundcover
- 79. MOFGA Fairgrounds, Unity, ME Alley Cropping: Fruit trees & annuals
- 80. Alley Cropping: Fruit trees & annuals • Apples, plums, pears • Pea shrub, grass, clover • Sweet peppers, kale
- 82. Windbreak: Nut Pines & Fruit
- 83. Agroforestry: Pancake Polyculture Birch Black Walnut Sugar Understory Maple Fruits: Black raspberry, Oak Red currant, Black currant Chestnut Pawpaw 83
- 86. Prairie Mimic: The Land Institute Species • Wild Senna • Illinois bundleflower • Hybrid sorghum • Maximilian sunflower • Leymus racemosus • Tripsacum dactyloides
- 87. Silvopasture: Red Pine, Cows, Grass
- 88. Silvopasture: Pigs & Nuts Species • Heritage-breed pigs • Pasture grass & legume mix • Black walnut, butternut, heartnut, chestnut, hickory, northern pecan, oak
- 89. Silvopasture: Pigs & Nuts Polyface Farm
- 91. Rotational Grazing: Animal Tractors Polyface Farm
- 92. Rotational Grazing: Animal Tractors Stone Barns Center
- 93. Aquaculture: Tilapia / Tropics CH_CS_fish1 Cascade Systems Wadenswil Agriculture Research Station, Switzerland Photo: Ethan Roland
- 94. Tilapia 94
- 95. CH_CS_waterflow Photo: Ethan Roland
- 96. Aquaponics CH_CS_parsley Tomatoes Parsley Photo: Ethan Roland
- 97. CH_CS_papaya
- 98. CH_CS_banana
- 99. 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
- 102. Eco-Ag Design Tool
- 106. Next Steps • Permaculture Track @ NOFA-SC • Northeastern Permaculture Wiki: • www.nepc.wikispaces.com • Permaculture Design Course • Consulting w/ Benneth & Ethan
- 107. Questions? Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture
- 108. Permaculture for Farmers Ecological Production by Design Benneth G. Phelps, Mosaic Farm Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture Regenerative Apios Design Group Institute