Thanks! This is my first permaculture video. 1. Determine North 2. Prevailing winds (passive pollination) 3. Winter sun, where to plant items that need sun. 4. Summer sun, plants that thrive in fun sun. 5. Noise, from road, neighbor’s and animals, 6. Find the slope. Use topography from highest point to the lowest. Place Chicken coop and water tanks in these areas. Chickens will saturate area from the top down and water will run from the top down using passive gravity. 7. Green house in the mid-point area requiring “skinning” in the summer 8. Attached green house to the primary quarters works to heat and cool the home. 9. A laundry room or mud porch can drain gray water out into a gray water garden. 10. Fruit and Nut tree forest passively watered and fertilized by chickens poop and rain water at the bottom of the slope.

@nm3547

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for summarizing it all!!! 👏👍

@marlenemuzangisakabeya5318

Жыл бұрын

Hello

"Utilize their chickeness..." made my day haha

@369mfkzt2

3 жыл бұрын

In portuguese: Utilize suas galinhezas.

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.

This video is wildly underrated. I personally wouldn’t force the clients to walk half their gardens just to get in their house 😆 but I appreciate the philosophy behind this idea.

"I hope those chickens don't die from sheer loneliness" Haha

It is incredibly helpful to see the two examples side by side like this! I have no knowledge at all in this area, but I do wish I could transform my garden more towards permaculture. Love it ❤️

GMOs are not really the problem, but the chemicals you need to put in food in a mass-producing economy. The science behind GMOs is brutal, but it truly is not an issue for medical reasons, but economic (monopolization of seeds) and ecological displacement. Loved the video, I am rehabilitating dead lawn in order to create a permaculturing system. Loved the inspiration. Thank you!

@bertvanbrakel

5 жыл бұрын

Depends on the what the GMO change is. There is GMO rice (Golden rice) which adds beta-carotene to it for vitamin A production. There is also rice which has been engineered to use the C4 photosynthesis path (vs the ancient C2) which is more efficient and hence creates higher yields for the same input. This includes small farmers. This has been a government and university run project. Ditto with rice more resistant to salt and drought. If all were combined it would be a great boom for the like of African farmers. In fact many of them are calling out for GMO rice. Not all GMO is used to only be beneficial to seed companies. It depends what the change is. And with GMO the change is very specific, for a very specific trait Besides, many farmers already buy hybrid seeds for the 'hybrid vigour' . Unfortunately the subsequent yield from the resulting seed doesn't share the same vigour. Hence they buy seed again the year after. It's more cost effective. That said, it all depends on your method of production and what sort of inputs you are wanting to put into your crops.

@Arthur-Silva

4 жыл бұрын

GMOs are a huge part of the problem.

@cerin59

4 жыл бұрын

GMO foods 'not an issue for medical reasons'?? incorrect. what about the GMO potatoes that lab animals starved to death eating? I agree a bigger problem is ecological displacement and loss of biodiversity, and frankly all the chemicals killing microbes that deliver nutrients to the crops are most deleterious for most people right now, but it's wrong to say there is no medical issue of GMO crops when we really have very little idea of nutrition differences of long term effects at this point. i would say negative and unknown medical issues are yet ANOTHER reason not to let GMO crops displace biodiverse polyculture forests and human created food systems

@nickm2085

4 жыл бұрын

I suggest you look into Zach bush and organic no till farming

@christianekrulewitch6258

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying this! Feels so rare these days to come across logically minded, educated people.

Absolutely nailed it mate. I'm in the process of learning my land and design atm. 4.3ac, food forrest, livestock, farm stay and hopefully, one day and permaculture farm school.

I doubt any landscape designer would design that way. I can understand you tried to create an extreme comparison, but you can still compare without being misleading. I'm a permaculture designer myself by the way.

@deyjakyles1345

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to become a permaculture designer as well. What are the necessary steps?

@RossBarrett1

3 жыл бұрын

@@deyjakyles1345 Enrol in a permaculture design course

@TheRealHonestInquiry

2 жыл бұрын

@@deyjakyles1345 10:50 He told you how to do it in the video. Take a permaculture design course.

Nice design but I’m sure the family won’t enjoy always walking around the garden to get inside, especially when it’s raining. There should be a strait path from the car to front door in addition to the garden path.

@naturequeen2597

3 жыл бұрын

The point is that they would have to walk in the garden more, encouraging the people to engage more with there garden.

@Xander081987

3 жыл бұрын

The whole point is submitting yourself to nature, not the other way around.

Some ideas are clearly great, like a second greenhouse attached to the house or having the orchard/food forest positioned at the lower part of the estate, but I am not sold on all the details. How practical are the the round raised beds? They look fancy on the plan, but I'm not sure it's completely necessary. Also, I don't think it's a good idea to make the path to the house longer than it should be, you and the guests are more likely to cut it short and go where you "shouldn't" just to get to the home quicker. That always happens to fancy paths which are long winded, they are good for relaxing walks, but not great when you are in a rush to get from A to B.

@schoolofpermaculture

4 жыл бұрын

All good things to consider. Check out my update of this video with a lot more added in one of my newer videos called "introduction to permaculture gardening"

@myronplatte8354

2 жыл бұрын

The round "keyhole" beds are super efficient in terms of path space. I agree with you that the path from the driveway to the front door is a bit long. I would cut it's length by about two thirds, and put it in a simple curve that feels "logical". I would also add one or two flowering trees or bushes in that area, to make it more enjoyable and add some shade. Around the chicken pen, I would add easily harvestable, fast-growing organic matter plants to throw in, making it a straw pen. I would add a deciduous perennial on the sunward side of the greenhouse connected to the house, to give it shade during the time of year when extra heating is not desirable. Since there is little space to put this plant, in this design, I would opt for something like jerusalem artichokes, or maybe giant knotweed.

@gryphonsong4082

Жыл бұрын

Maybe not the knotweed. They are very hard to get rid of once placed. Worse then mint!

@VictorNewman201

Жыл бұрын

Its just an example to give people potential ideas. Different gardeners / clients will prefer different length paths.

Thanks for sharing this great example of how to practice Permaculture! So effective teaching video! Thank you!

This is Perfect.....Exactly what I want to do for our home. Thank you so much for doing this video.

I have had a bit of a difficult time finding a beginner's overview drawing of a permaculture design. I have a dream of creating one myself with an Earthship kind of home and am sitting down to draw and paint my fantasy home now! This is a sweet video!

Sweet! Thank you for showing the drastic contrast between regenerative Permaculture and why the mess that society struggles and suffers with is actually simply degenerative design, a systemic invitation to addiction to inputs, labor and futility. It really helps me. After studying, practicing and designing Permaculture since 2001, I am still a beginner in so many ways, on a practical level. This solidifies my ideas, and inspires me to go for it here on the quarter-acre I'm designing now. Aloha, Maui Permaculture Network (MPN) -- Claire

I need to learn more about this! This is so cool!

Thanks for sharing this story... very inspiring... It starts with awareness and intent.. and through progressive steps, we create sustainable abundance...

amazing plan. I have been following homesteaders on KZread for about a yr or so. this is the first plan i have seen that would work for me

Love how much edge is created by the round beds and windy paths. I'm assuming the rows of trees range in sizes / species in descending height as you travel down the slope, with the tallest being nearest the house.

Cool method I can see my self making this design at my backyard

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.

Really clever, now we need a design consciousness for making it aesthetically beautiful.

What an inspiration!!! Now, I want a piece of land si bad!!!

Would love to see something similar on a 1/4 acre or 10,000 square feet which is a more normal suburban house lot.

@westheir997

2 жыл бұрын

Hard Level: With an HOA

beautiful glimpse of your garden! wow

I know this video is about permaculture, but as Landscape Architect theres couple of points i believe didn’t look right. A.) there’s no proper boundary (green buffer)between the road and private property, the storage shed is just beside the road and far from the garden. B.) there’s no separate path that leads directly to the house. The driveway entry is the only access point to the property. C.)Overall shape, form and circulation. You stated a lot of good points, cost efficient and practical solutions. 👍 just pointing out some points that might help in future. Cheers! 🍻

This is amazing content and I believe permaculture is the future, however, I'd like to add that there is absolutely not one shred of peer reviewed scientific literature from any reliable source that claims that GMOs are harmful in any way, especially not toxic or poisonous. The truth is that GMOs are highly controlled and face strict regulations. If you do want to discredit or argue against GMOs, do so from a financial or intellectual property angle as it is problematic for companies to patent genetic information for obvious reasons. The majority of GMO criticisms are founded in scientific skepticism, anti intellectualism or blatant misinformation, often caused by mistrust, much like the anti-vax movement.

Thanks for the info! I love it!

Just joined and signed up for a beginners course. Aiming to do the PDC soon as I’m ready 👍🏼🫶🏻

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.

what company did the family contact for a consultaion or design?

What would the initial cost be of such a setup though? including planting fruit trees, irrigation, solar power and structures. I really like the concept though, it's like LEAN Farming.

good video thanks

you know i love the small scale stuff, im doing the same thing for the same reasons. on a side note, i made ya'll a featured channel on my site, and im doing a shout out vid for Nicholas. Appreciate all the swag you sent.

@schoolofpermaculture

7 жыл бұрын

Oh cool! Thanks for doing that. Have appreciated you since the beginning. Shout it out! :-) ~ Nicholas

Are there any zoning regulations for a home that produces agricultural plants and has a storefront stand?

is the winter and summer sun path the opposite direction for the southern hemisphere? im in Western Australia and I’ve always noticed my North facing bedroom window gets direct sunlight in winter and none in summer.

Inspirational and very informative. thank you!

oh my...!!! fantastic!!!

"utilizing its chickenness" lol

@Arthur-Silva

4 жыл бұрын

Øyðrík Filip Jørðvål you beat me to the comment 🤣

@mojdehks9704

4 жыл бұрын

I chortled at that

@vincepanero3758

3 жыл бұрын

“Chickenness” is amazing, btw. Less 🐌 & slugs, less chewed up plants, I love how they graze.

@benhollis1507

3 жыл бұрын

It's from joel salitin

Have you ever used a deep mulch system with the chickens?

Hello just want to ask what plants can be used as Support species? And what material for the access pathways? Thanks!

excellent video. thank you

Anyway I can contact you to help design the layout for my backyard? 1/4 acre roughly.

Thanks for this. I am definitely inspired. The Lord bless you.

I would like to find out where can I find one of these guys for hire

lovely video. thank you!

Ugh. These are all things I want. It's really hard to picture it though because we have a leach field that you pretty much can't do anything with or near. :(

Bravo! What a valuable video! Thank you!

AWSOME!

I love the idea! Continue your work

Hello! How much does a plan costs? I have something like 130-150 square metres yard and want to use it to the fullest.

nice design, good comparisons

Really lovely design! Thank you for sharing it. If I may ask, when creating a similar design, should one account for the trees blocking the sun?

@butterflyj685

3 жыл бұрын

Also wouldn't green house A block out sun and create a shadow behind it, especially in the summer when it is covered with a shade cloth?

@BKStarlet08

3 жыл бұрын

yes to both. you'd be surprised how many plants can grow really well under shade

amazing content friend

Brilliant!

I am looking for a good certificate program for landscape design do you have any recommendations?

Love that design. I see a lot if permaculture videos utilizing the slope. Is permaculture as effective for flat land?

@commonsensehome

4 жыл бұрын

Sure. You work with what you have, and slope is only one design element. If you're starting with flat land and want to add some height, you can add elements such as herb spirals or hugelkultur raised beds.

Really interesting and informative.

Hi, i am very interesting with permaculture. Nice...

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.

@springisthenewyear

5 жыл бұрын

alex riddles GMOs are fake food fake plants messing with Gods creations to heal our bodies. Monsanto kills

@LenaMacrieHunt

5 жыл бұрын

You are correct. I am a plant scientist and GMO technology is great, but unfortunately it is sometimes used in conjunction with pesticides and Monsanto, but this is not true for all GMOS. GMO foods are not bad: monocultures, pesticides, industrial agricultural practices are bad. Many GMOs are able to help plants adapt to changing climates or have micronutrients and improve nutrition. In many parts of the world, GMOs can save lives. It makes me so angry when people are anti GMO but have no idea what they are actually against. GMOs are not the problem, they are just frequently referenced with all the other things that are bad about modern agricultural practices.

@springisthenewyear

5 жыл бұрын

Lena Hunt GMOs are fake food.

@samnikole1643

4 жыл бұрын

alex riddles GMO are garbage!

@tnjazzgal

2 жыл бұрын

There is no place for GMOs in permaculture or healthy home gardening. The process is unnecessary, unnatural and unhealthy. It's an insult to God; the same as telling God that what He gave us isn't good enough. I'll stick with our God-given heirlooms and organics, thank you very much.

very nice video i love it. I am trying to do so.

Great video... well done

This is incredible. Where do you find a person that designs like this in my area.

@schoolofpermaculture

5 жыл бұрын

Tina Salas try googling permaculture designer or consultant in your area You can also give us a call, we design lots of jobs off site.

Instead of electrical irrigation hoses, I really recommend you look into earthen jug irrigation!! Requires no electricity or lining whatsoever, you only fill unglazed earthen jugs with water, place them slightly into the ground, and then wait as osmosis will extract the water when it's dry... This is a technique that has been used by many cultures for a very very long time. So much kinder to Mother Earth 🙏💗🌸🌷🌿

@kloewe6069

2 жыл бұрын

And thank you for this amazing video, though I've loved permaculture for such a long time, there is always more to learn and I've learned so much from this video. Thank you!

I teach rejuvenating nutrition and talk about all the problems with commercial foods on my channel. The story that you share is reality but most people ignore it (that food make them sick). I do permaculture design too but I used raised beds, not circles and I keep living tree in the layout. Sun orientation is key but I keep some ideas you shared here as they may come handy in some situations.

I am curious I know this may sound kind of rude, but I am want to know what else do you feed the chickens outside of the insects? From my understanding, chickens can’t get all their nutritional needs just from insects. So you get some store to supplement their diet or is there some other elements of your farm? You can feed themtoo fill in their diet. Or am I just off the mark?

It’s beautiful I’m building it.

Can we hire you to develop this system for our future homestead in Texas? 🙏🏼😁

Sheer genius. It’s almost too efficient. How large was the plot?

wow this is amazing so exciting

Awesome! Where do I find a permaculture designer?!

Inspiring!

Randomly found u while searching landscaping renders.. you just changed my approach. My architect company is now mad at me….

Well done !

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.

@maplenook

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they enter thru garage

can we do this type of design for hyper arid and arid climates in for example Middle east ?

@taiwanjohn

6 жыл бұрын

Yes we can! kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZmFt9OLl5XXipM.htmlm55s

@SKOLAH

3 жыл бұрын

You should do a search for Geoff Lawton and...No! I can't remember the name, but there are YT videos about growing in arid conditions and regreening areas. Lawton is the place to start with permaculture. 🙂

Great!

wow, nice ending!

Thank you

I just love the path and circles design. This will fit just right here :) I have chicken and ducks that could help with pests control and fertilizing, but how do you deal with predators if leaving them free roaming? We have foxes that came in day light to get young chicks and rabbits… any ideas?

@schoolofpermaculture

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Most predation but not happen at night. The chicken tractor is their nightly protection. So they get put up in the night. The poultry netting stays on to help deter predators by shocking them.

such smart design

Do you recommend any permaculture design courses that one can do online? :)

@schoolofpermaculture

7 жыл бұрын

gudnyvalborg of course. Geoff Lawton does a great one once a year and Andrew Millison also has a good one with OSU. I would also highly recommend to take two of you are serious and do at least one in person. Completely different experience.

What about winter. They mast walk to the Haus door in the snow; Very nice the rest.

Is this on one or two acres of land? On the reasoning of putting the chicken coop at higher elevation to utilize the chicken manure, how do you plan to do that? Do you wash the poop into a mixing tank, then gravity feed it to the plants lower in the gradient? What system did they have in mind?

@priscillahernandez8193

2 жыл бұрын

The earth does the filtration work when rain comes. It washes down the chicken coop from the north and nutrients are carried down the entire slope by gravity. The key to understanding many permaculture techniques is to find the way for the earth to do the work for you. Also this looks like 1 acre

@priscillahernandez8193

2 жыл бұрын

Earth has also a nice power of sterilizing harmful compounds when it filtrates things like that

To me, the chickens are a a little too close to a public area (the sidewalk, where they could become a source for complaints from commuters walking by) and would probably do better closer to the green house. that is one of the issues to consider in an urban environment. My current goals are to build a food garden which is both year around and as esthetically pleasing as possible. I know some complaints were made initially with my first efforts and my landlord brushed it off with the comment that the duplex "looked lived in." However, I am working on addressing that. I was pleased when the landlord and tenant next door left me use part of his land for growing tomatoes and Seminole Pumpkins this year. The varigation in the leaves of the Pumpkins improved the appearance from the street of that part of my garden. The back yard is the lower area of the small yard and partially belongs to the landlord next over. Right now i have a trellis back there and grow what I do in grow backs near the fence. Otherwise I'm just letting what was bare clay land gain topsoil through nature's way as the pine trees above and dead plants from my garden with some weed cover rot on top. I've decided to do the same with similar soil up in the front yard and already had started with Sweet Potato and watermelon plants grown in a plastic tub and fallout from both pines and oaks. Those areas are where I plan on planting a little more along permacultural lines with plants which are edible, will blend together well in their niches and look pleasing with little or no care. I'm thinking in the long term here.

@schoolofpermaculture

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was one of our considerations as well. It may have been useful to give a layout of the surrounding property. The chicken coop side is not near the public or neighbors. The sidewalk is hardly ever used for public access. Sorry you are having issues with your installation. Sounds like your neighbors and landlord are on your side. That is good.

😁exactly how do "we" bring those chickens back at night to their coop? Just wondering...

It's nicer looking that the other straight line one

Absolute wrong relation of locations of trees towards the greenhouses in relation to the Sun. Come on!!

@feynstein1004

7 жыл бұрын

The greenhouses are at higher elevations than the trees. They won't block sunlight, hopefully.

@commonsensehome

4 жыл бұрын

Given how close together those trees were in the drawing, they'd have to be dwarf trees and shrubs, too.

Cool video

Awesome

Verry nice channel 👏😻

Also the bottom nut a fruit trees stop the problem of the noise pollution from the south. So it acts in many more ways than just the lowest water cleaning drain system

I've tried to find a good available and willing p.designer but still have not found such a person. Help?

@priscillahernandez8193

2 жыл бұрын

Have you thought about learning yourself? it is not very hard and everyone can learn, its a concept made so that everyone can learn to adopt it. Search up Geoff Lawton's urban permaculture video (and the rest of his channel), Bill Morrison's book "Permaculture design manual", there are some free videos done by Utah university with an entire permaculture design course up on youtube, and another book I can recommend is Gaia's Garden.

What do you mean by a 12ft center in a diamond pattern? (7:45) Do you mean the diameter of the keyhole? And planting in offset "rows"? Also, for anyone wondering the scale was 1 square = 5ft

@priscillahernandez8193

2 жыл бұрын

Search up Bill Morrison's book of Permaculture design and Geoff Lawton's channel. It will answer many of your questions and more

@hdubbs9174

2 жыл бұрын

@@priscillahernandez8193 As nice as your recommendations are, they don't actually answer my question. I am still unsure of what "diamond planting with a 12ft center" means. It is overkill to watch 100+ videos and find an out-of-print 600 page book to answer such a simple question.

IF there were a slope. Your wind dilemma is blocked by a wooden fence. And... the garden is so smallest I've seen. I would've opted for a greenhouse connected from garden beds to the chicken shack with worms underneath the veggie platforms for compost (also inside chicken shack underneath chicken nests) so chickens can have a portion of fresh worms at my discretion.

I’d like to see what you would come up with on a 30 acre homestead. That’s what I’d really like to do.

@TheRealHonestInquiry

2 жыл бұрын

You would take all the elements here into account but further divide the area into zones in terms of how close they are to your house. The more attention they need the closer that design element should be to your house. So it would gradually go from things like a kitchen herb spiral and raised beds, to an orchard / tree guilds, to the end being pure untended wilderness.

Inspiring

How much did you pay for the permaculture design plan? Can you send me a link to the company?

@joyceharris9296

3 жыл бұрын

Please provide a list of p. designers in VIC Australia.

@SKOLAH

3 жыл бұрын

Why aren't you looking for yourselves?

Isn't the orchard gonna block out the southern sun? And there's no wind break from the eastern winds?.

Awesome video. Hope you can get a sponsor so that you can make content that reaches more people then your in person school... Maybe it could cover prerequisite knowledge ahead of in person school?

@schoolofpermaculture

2 жыл бұрын

How does an organization, being us, go about that?