A young family wants to make a change and asked two different landscape design teams to design their landscape for healthy fruits and vegetables, nuts and eggs. The two companies create designs and got back with the couple. The video shows the results and below you can easily see the connections and benefits the permaculture design took into the family’s consideration.
Where the traditional design does meet the family’s needs, the permaculture design take a practical look at the landscape, the couple’s desires, and joins them together with harmonious interaction. Here are some of the connections:
Chicken house:
At a spot in the property where it will eventually leach nutrients down slope into the landscape.
Captures it’s own water.
Deep bedding method so the whole thing is a egg making compost generator.
Greenhouse A:
Grow food all year.
Doubles as a plant nursery.
Greenhouse B:
Heats and cools home by providing a buffer zone and convection.
Cleanses grey water.
Grows nutrient dense tropical food plants because it has a microclimate that can do that.
Adds additional living space to the home.
Orchard / Food forest:
Captures it’s own water by designing it with the slope of the landscape.
Fertilized by both chicken system and support species.
Ecosystem design to maximum yield.
Once established it is almost a zero work system.
Wilfdlife habitat.
Nature area for a sense of well being.
Real long term low maintenance food security
Garden and crops:
You garden more efficiently when you have to walk through the garden to get into the house.
Utilizes keyhole gardens with one entry/rotation point instead of rectangular garden that needs to be worked from the outside perimeter.
The darker green areas are support species that are filled with nitrogen and nutrient accumulating species as well as pollinator attractors and beneficial predatory insect attractors to aid in suppressing pests and to create wildlife habitat with an ecosystem rather than monoculture.
Vegetables washing station near home entry to maximize work efficiency that also uses the wash water to keep worm farm moist. The culling of leaves and plants from the garden go into the worm farm to feed the worms. The worm farm has a drain at the bottom so they can harvest the worm juice after each wash.
Water tanks:
Catches drinkable and irrigation water from the roof.
Pumped out with a solar powered pump.
Irrigates garden with simple low tech, low cost, efficient system.
Chicken system:
Creates low work natural fertilizer.
De-pests growing areas
De-weeds growing areas
Feeds chickens
Compost area:
Along with the chicken house it serves as a organic nutrient cycling area.
Gives quicker compost for garden needs
Feeds chickens
Store:
The city ordinances allow having a store/stand of some types to sell directly to the public.
Parking area captures run off water for food forest
Community is established with sales
Money is made
Community area:
Comfortable outside living space
outdoor cooking area
A visually and aesthetically pleasing area for the family and visitors
Meeting area
As you can see there are a lot of connections made in a permaculture design that will benefit this family, the soil, wildlife, and the environment. And this example could be used for a standard suburban lot up to around an acre or so of land. But it does not stop there. A baby boomer couple has now called upon a conventional agriculture consultant and a permaculture consultant to design their farm. This should be a show down of exciting designs and the results should be in soon.
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Chicken eggs? Really? Because they can't get enough cholesterol and saturated fat from plants? The problem with carnism is that it's so insidious.
This could have been such a good video if it wasn't for all the weird half truth fake information. GMOs aren't poison. The comparison of designs is dramatically biased. The intro story detracts from the design info.
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.
This is a really great video, I love the different ideas and elements, but I kind of take issue with how you just dismissed GMOs as evil like that at the start. Of course GMOs CAN be problematic, like for example roundup ready crops that encourage the use of pestasides, but the idea that all GMOs are "toxic" or "poison" is just flat out wrong. GMO is an incredibly broad term, you can do a lot of different things under that umbrella, so you have to look at GMOs on a case by case basis if you want to reflect any semblance of reality. GMOs can absolutely cause problems, but they can also be a useful tool to fight hunger and environmental damage. Its a nuanced topic, and pretending that it's not like you did just encourages anger and division between people who could and should be working together for a better world.
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Hi, i am very interesting with permaculture. Nice…
Thank you
Would love to see something similar on a 1/4 acre or 10,000 square feet which is a more normal suburban house lot.
My HOA says “No”
I see what you're trying to achieve with the comparison but it's too simplistic and unrealistic. Your example family are a working couple with jobs and kids – how are they going to set this all up and maintain it? We practice permaculture and work as gardeners so we know what's involved. We're trying to find a solution which balances conventional and permaculture design that we can implement for urban gardens.
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 ❤️
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 think the permaculture plan looks better because you used colored pencils… Just kidding… it’s an obvious choice especially considering the traditional landscape company, if they can even come up with a “traditional” design like that, … All void space will be lawn.
Permaculture is a great way to promote sustainable agriculture, but genetic modification of plants has nothing to do with toxicity of produce. Maize, wheat, citrus, and most of the edible cultivars we know and love are the product of the same genetic selection by humans. Permaculture landscape design is a wonderful endeavor, but we have to make sure we don't mix up real environmental science with pseudoscientific claims about genetic modification and unnamed "toxins".
GMO's are harmless to the body. A genetic change does nothing to produce poison or toxins. Many vegetables you likely grow yourself were at one point genetically modified through gene culling.
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.
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?
It’s beautiful I’m building it.
Inspiring
Can we hire you to develop this system for our future homestead in Texas? 🙏🏼😁
amazing
oh my…!!! fantastic!!!
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.
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?
Inspiring!
I love the idea! Continue your work
lol @ your comments on gmos lol i make my own gmos and they're fine, its probably the glyphosate
Hello! How much does a plan costs? I have something like 130-150 square metres yard and want to use it to the fullest.
and if the golden ratio was included in all design dimensions, it would be even more amazing.
Inspirational and very informative. thank you!
chickens die from loneliness?
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 🙏💗🌸🌷🌿
Ahh yes. You must utilize the chickenness.
Bravo! What a valuable video! Thank you!
Isn't the orchard gonna block out the southern sun? And there's no wind break from the eastern winds?.
Hello just want to ask what plants can be used as Support species? And what material for the access pathways? Thanks!
Really clever, now we need a design consciousness for making it aesthetically beautiful.
I liked it until I had to interact with people at a store I suddenly own. 😂
Just kidding I loved this video
nice