Aquaculture – Page 2 – School of Permaculture

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Evolution of a Pond

By nicholas
August 20, 2014
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Not widely known is that most prairies and forests start as water retention pools also known as ponds. When a water filled hole in a landscape fills, the “4 layers of life” balance the pond and maintain it for several hundred years (learn more). After many years silts from decaying organic matter start to fill the pond. If […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The 4 Layers of a Pond

By nicholas
August 15, 2014
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When studying permaculture at any depth it is easy to be empowered with information such as every forest in the world has seven layers (learn more), or that prairies are layered too (learn more). Since design and order is not exclusive to land systems, we can see the order of life in every pond or aquatic system. The […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Regenerative Rice Fields

By nicholas
August 5, 2014
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There are very few sustainable and regenerative farming methods in known recorded history that can be modeled after for long term food and water abundance. Thailand has been known to bear highly productive rice fields that have existed for over 5000 years. At first glance of the abundance it is easy to think “why don’t we just build rice […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Poison for Dry Lands

By nicholas
July 22, 2014
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In permaculture we learn a truly remarkable arsenal of techniques, strategies, and patterning that is at our disposal for permaculture consulting and design. It would probably lift a few eyebrows if I said that if a farmer truly needed a chemical such as fungicide to save a crop which will provide money and food for his […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – A Pond Polyculture

By nicholas
July 17, 2014
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When designing most aquatic system and especially ponds we will have a a much higher degree of analysis of species types to consider for design. This is true because we not only design for the aquatic plant and animals species but also the land based species and the amphibious plant and animal species as well. A typical pond […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How Much Dedicated Water Storage?

By nicholas
July 7, 2014
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Water is an exceptionally important design feature when designing permaculture sites. Where it comes from? how to store it? how to distribute it? and how will it exit a property? are just a few questions that arise in the design stage. Another question that arises frequently, especially on rural sites, is how much of the landscape should […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Light Albedo

By nicholas
June 30, 2014
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There are only a few things in nature that are constants. When designing landscapes and structures such as houses it is very important to design not only to solar aspect, but to light itself. Depending on climate region we may want to design “to absorb the light” or design “to reflect the light”. Both reflection […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Keypoints

By nicholas
June 25, 2014
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After a permaculture design course, many permaculture practitioner and designer feel as they though their understanding of key points in landscape is rather blurred. I have come up with a list of tips that make keypoints easier to understand, easier to find, and some of the ways they can be utilized. There is not just one keypoint per hillside or mountain […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Soil Building Ecosystems

By nicholas
June 23, 2014
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In permaculture we look to nature as a teacher to show us how to biomimic it’s design to create life rich systems. There is a hierarchy of soil creation in nature. The richest regions of life on earth can be found in the shallow marines. These are brakish in characteristic meaning they have a mixture […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Pest Traps for Protein

By nicholas
June 19, 2014
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In permaculture we have a principle that states: The problem is the solution. I could write the next week’s worth of tips just on that topic alone. However today’s tip will use this principle with pest management, specifically to invertebrates such as termites, grasshoppers, ants, and cockroaches. These guys are more than likely going to […]

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