Showing posts with label Gaia's Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaia's Garden. Show all posts
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tactic: Graywater recycling
Gaia's Garden has a section on graywater recycling... building a marsh to filter the graywater and then storing it in several ponds... I wonder if you can combine that idea with the mycelium filtration system explored in Running Mycelium? Basically, you'd build the marshfilter, and then at the end of that add a straw bale inoculated with garden giant mushrooms... double filtering leads to redundancy [a thing permaculturists adore] and I bet the garden giants could be eaten or fed to beasts like chickens or goats...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Permaculture, in particular Forest Gardens
~ The art of creating a landscape/ecosystem that is self-sufficient and lush. A productive garden without the intense labor costs of traditional [read: monoculture] vegetable plots or the intense fertilizer costs thereof. Key phrase: perennial polyculture of multipurpose [plants] inhabitants* P1 of Edible Forest Gardens
Key steps in building a permaculture [via Gaia's Garden P6]
- Observe
- Connect
- Catch and store energy/materials
- All elements multifunction
- Each function supported by multiple elements
- Make the least change for the greatest effect
- Use small-scale, intensive systems [wait, that makes no sense, chunking kinda does]
- Optimize edge
- Collaborate with succession [plan longterm]
- Use biological and renewable resources
- Turn problems into solutions
- Get a yield [immediate and longterm]
- The biggest limit to abundance is creativity
- Mistakes are tools for learning
I mean, these are the kinds of things that one would use to evaluate anything, right? I think my process will look something like this:
- Planning for yield - Working backward from the end goal
- Meeting the needs of various functions that get you to the desired yield
*denotes my word change
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