Category: Teacher’s Manual

Zone 4

Session length 90 min. Learning outcomes By the end of the session, participants will be able to list all the harvestable products from a forest/treesplants understand why it is important to plant back the number of trees we consume in a lifetime- and more! State characteristics of the Zone 4 in terms of structure of… Continue reading Zone 4

Session Plan Collection from Andy Goldring

  Andy Goldring, UK Permaculture Association, has shared seven lessons plans: 1. Real Wealth and Wiser Money Objectives: Explain different forms of exchange that make up a local economy Know that there are economic strategies available to help support and develop  local economies Make links between ‘green economy’ approaches and permaculture. Explain that local self-reliance needs a… Continue reading Session Plan Collection from Andy Goldring

Session Plan Collection from Monika Frank

Monika Frank, France, has shared some lessons plans: 1. Design Process and Elements of Permaculture Design A 90 minute session Objectives: Know different steps in design cycle / process Know why it is important to follow a design process and that it is cyclical Get the idea that permaculture design does not only mean planning a… Continue reading Session Plan Collection from Monika Frank

Permaculture Design Process – 4. Identifying functions

By Aranya Introduction This is the stage where we identify what will be the focus of the design. We take what we have learned from the client interview(s) & determine what key functions are required (there may be many, but some will be more a priority than others). When we visit somewhere new, we often… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 4. Identifying functions

Permaculture Design Process – 3. The Client Interview

By Aranya Introduction This is the part where we identify why we are redesigning the site. The following process we would ideally go through with each client (everyone involved ought to be interviewed to some degree). Sometimes, your clients will include both adults and children, though one or two may guide the process more than… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 3. The Client Interview

Permaculture Design Process – 2. Creating a base map

By Aranya Introduction If you are lucky, you will have obtained a good map from your client, on which you can base your own. Maps are made for many different reasons though, and it is unlikely that even if you have, you will be holding the perfect map for you in your hand just yet.… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 2. Creating a base map

EUPC in Bulgaria

Permaculture Ball Rolls Rapidly down to the shores of Lake Batak  In Bulgaria this month, the team of volunteers who are participating in the first-of-its-kind, FREE, year-round PDC have completed a detailed site analysis of this year’s location of the European Permaculture Convergence. The first phase of design, already on its way, has been to… Continue reading EUPC in Bulgaria

PLANT – Follow-Up to EPT

PLANT stands for Permaculture Learning Action Networking & Training. It wants to be the extension of the UK LAND project to the European Continent. In April 2014, an application was submitted to the ERASMUS+ EU funding scheme in order to pursue this objective. Here you can find a summary of the PLANT application: Permaculture is… Continue reading PLANT – Follow-Up to EPT

Permaculture Design Process – 1. The site survey

This is the first article of a comprehensive series on permaculture design by Aranya. Enjoy! by Aranya 1. The site survey Introduction We are going to start our process by first surveying the area to be designed. You might not always be designing areas of land (permaculture is much more flexible than just this), but… Continue reading Permaculture Design Process – 1. The site survey

VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Some more interesting material by Aranya, with acknowledgements to Victoria Chislett (see contact info at the end of the article). Enjoy! VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire Circle or tick the answer that most represents how you generally behave. (It’s best to complete the questionnaire before reading the accompanying explanation.) 1. When I operate new equipment… Continue reading VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Participation, motivation & inclusion methods

Here some very interesting material by Aranya. Enjoy! Training or learning? Modern principles of effective training and development Focus on learning, not training As a teacher, you may talk about learning, not training, thus focusing on the person (from the inside out, not the outside in), and offer relevant learning in as many ways as… Continue reading Participation, motivation & inclusion methods

Philosophy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.[1][2] Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.[3] In more casual speech, by extension,… Continue reading Philosophy

Design

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Design, when applied to fashion, includes considering aesthetics as well as function in the final form. Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns).[1] Design has different… Continue reading Design

Esthetics & Design: Symmetry

Hand-out in workshop on Esthetics & Design in Permaculture. Patterns in Nature: Symmetry  Bilateral animals, including humans, are more or less symmetric with respect to the sagittal plane which divides the body into left and right halves. Plants and sessile (attached) animals such as sea anemones often have radial or rotational symmetry. Fivefold symmetry… Continue reading Esthetics & Design: Symmetry

Esthetics & Design: Fractals

Hand-out for a workshop on Esthetics & Design in Permaculture. Patterns in Nature: self-similarity & scale  Exact self-similarity: identical at all scales; e.g. Koch snowflake Quasi self-similarity: approximates the same pattern at different scales; may contain small copies of the entire fractal in distorted and degenerate forms Statistical self-similarity: repeats a pattern stochastically so… Continue reading Esthetics & Design: Fractals

Esthetics & Design: Sheet Mulching

Hand-out for a workshop on sheet mulching. emphasis on esthetic qualities of the shape of beds/pathways/stepping stones and the different textures of the finishing top layer. An often encountered criticism of permaculture design in public space is that it looks “messy”. And frankly: it often does. Going overboard on pragmatism can lead to a neglect… Continue reading Esthetics & Design: Sheet Mulching

An Exercise: Patterns

Shared by Graham Bell, from a recent PDC Handbook. Why are patterns important? They are easy to remember. They are portable and so can be used anywhere. They are universal so they fit changing circumstances. They are strong because they bind their elements together (‘geodesic strength’, tesselation). Patterns can be physical, behavioural or structural.