REGENERATIVE LANDSCAPES & Permaculture Design

  W1

1. Introduction & Ethics
   1. Current State of the World (Core World problems)
   2. Sustainability (principles of ecosystems)
   3. Definition of Permaculture
   4. Ethics
2. Concepts & Themes in Design
   1. Functional Design and connections
   2. Diversity, Order vs Chaos, Yield
   3. Pattern Understanding
   4. Edge Effect
3. Design Methodology
   1. Observation
   2. Analysis of elements, “how do these things connect?”
   3. Sector and zone planning, “where do we put things?”
   4. Slope and orientation
4. Pattern Understanding

W2 

1. Climatic Factors
2. Trees and Their Energy Transactions
3. Soils
   1. Types of soils
   2. What is in the soil
   3. SFW (microbiology)
   4. Plant nutrition and soil health
      1. Methods of soil regeneration: compost, compost tea, Biochar, mulch, holistic grazing
   5. Functional Forests:
      1. Sustainable Food Production: Forest Gardens
4. Water
   1. Water cycle
   2. Duties of Water
   3. Principle of water design (slow, spread,sink + save)
   4. Grey water management, water catchment systems, keyline design
   5. Water recycle – reed beds

W3 

1. Climate Design - Cold and Temperate
2. Climate Design - Drylands
3. Climate Design Tropics
4. Aquaculture

W4 

1. Strategies for an Alternative Nation
2. Design Brief