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    OSU Master Gardener Training 2018

    PERMACULTURE BASICS
    FOR MASTER
    GARDENERS
    Michelle Sager
    OSU Extension Service, Wasco County
    Learning Objectives

    1. Understanding of foundations of Permaculture

    2. Examples of Permaculture design techniques for backyard gardens

    a. Including some controversial ideas in Permaculture

    3. Familiarity with at least one Permaculture design principle

    4. Practice at designing / applying principles

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 1


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 2
    What is Permaculture?

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 3


    What is Permaculture?
    Permaculture is most often
    used for creating efficient
    and productive landscapes
    that sustain themselves
    into the future by
    regenerating biodiversity
    and lost fertility.

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 4


    Permaculture Ethics
    Care for the Earth

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 5


    Philosophy + Design

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 6


    What is an Ecosystem?

    A system, or a group of
    interconnected elements,
    formed by the interaction of a
    community of organisms with
    their environment

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 7


    Philosophy + Design

    Applied Ecology Edible Restoration

    Permaculture

    Regenerative Design Cultivated Ecosystems


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 8
    “Permaculture Design is not the rain, the roof, or
    the garden. Permaculture Design is the connections
    between these things. Permaculture brings
    cohesion where there was once isolation.”
    -Bill Mollison

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 9


    Inputs and Outputs Activity

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 10


    “You don’t have a snail problem…
    you have a duck deficiency!”
    - Bill Mollison

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 11


    The problem is the solution!

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 12


    Design Principles
    • Make connections.

    • Catch and store energy and


    materials.

    • Stack functions.

    • Make the least change for the


    greatest effect.

    • Use small-scale, intensive systems.


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 13
    Design Examples

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 14


    Design Aims:
    • Grow as much food as possible
    • Provide food and habitat for beneficial critter friends
    • Waste is put back into the system
    • Build soil and store water
    • Go with the flow (the problem is the solution!)

    • Soil, sun, water, plants, wildlife…

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 15


    Food Forests
    • Vertical stacking of trees
    and plants

    • Creates microclimates

    • High biodiversity

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 16


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    Hedgerows / Living Fences
    • Defines boundaries / edges
    • Water stored in biomass
    • Edible possibilities (Fedge!)
    • Noise reduction
    • Windbreak
    • Soil Stabilization
    • Wildlife Corridor
    • Attract beneficial insects

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 19


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    Guilds
    Group of plants chosen to help each other:
    • attract beneficial insects
    • deter wildlife
    • fertilize
    • mulch
    • produce nectar to attract pollinators
    • repel pests
    • suppress grass

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 24


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 25
    Dynamic Accumulators
    Fact or Fiction?
    What we do know:
    • Phytoaccumulation does happen

    What we don’t know:


    • If the plant will make those minerals
    available to the soil and if they do,
    how long will it take?

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 26


    Cherry

    Garlic
    Chives
    Comfrey

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 27


    Three Sisters
    North American Traditional

    • Corn
    • Beans
    • Squash

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 28


    Hugelkultur

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 29


    Fact or fiction?

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 30


    Bioswales
    • Farm-scale

    • Sunken

    • Flat bottom – on contour

    • Designed to:
    capture and slow water

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 31


    Urban Bioswales
    • Sunken

    • Flat bottom – on contour

    • Designed to:
    • capture and slow water
    • filter urban pollutants

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 32


    Impervious
    Surfaces
    • Do not allow rainwater to
    infiltrate or soak into soil

    • Concrete, roofs, driveways,


    sidewalks, roads, etc.

    • Severe compaction from


    heavy equipment or foot
    traffic

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 33


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 34
    Rain Gardens
    • Sunken, flat-bottomed garden
    bed

    • Collects and treats stormwater


    runoff from rooftops, driveways,
    sidewalks, parking lots, and
    streets

    • mimic natural forest, meadow, or


    prairie conditions

    • Filters out urban pollutants


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 35
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    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 40
    African Keyhole Design

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 41


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    Herb Spiral
    • Many microclimates

    • Hot on south side, cool on north side

    • Drier at the top, moist at the bottom

    • Vertical design

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 46


    Observation

    The HEART of Permaculture design!

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 47


    Observation
    • What kind of soil do I have? Is it all the same?
    • Where in my yard gets the most sun? The least?
    • Where does water flow in my yard? Where does it puddle?
    • Which direction does the wind come from?
    • Which plant species are growing naturally here?
    • Which wildlife friends visit my yard?

    …through the day and through the seasons


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 48
    Site Analysis + Design Aims

    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 49


    Design Aims:
    • Grow as much food as possible

    • Provide food and habitat for


    beneficial critter friends

    • Waste is put back into the system

    • Go with the flow (the problem is


    the solution)

    • Soil, sun, water, plants, wildlife…


    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY 50

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