Patterns – School of Permaculture

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How To Make A Keyhole Garden

By nicholas
January 4, 2016
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Learn how to build and make a keyhole garden bed from start to finish with Nicholas Burtner, the director of the School of Permaculture. And here is a vegetable garden growing guide for beginners – here ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take […]

Edge Effect: Tools for bridging communications gaps

By nicholas
December 22, 2015
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In our efforts to empower large-scale land restoration and effect cultural transformation to a society of earth repair and stewardship, we must educate, inspire, and engage. To accomplish this, we must form a connection between ourselves and our audiences. We need to create a space with a consistency of purpose, a compatible language, and a […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – People Care Part 2

By nicholas
June 2, 2015
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Communication - noun com·mu·ni·ca·tion \kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shən\ : the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else I have chosen to redefine how I think about being multilingual. Not in the sense of different regional dialects such as Spanish, German, or English. […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – People Care Part 1

By nicholas
March 24, 2015
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As I have written in the article “Permaculture’s Archilles’ Heel“, it is the people systems that are the number one reason why most permaculture systems fail. I would suppose the on site financial systems would be number two (a tip on invisible structures for setting up permaculture financial systems coming soon). We do not have much training […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – What Are Type One Errors?

By nicholas
February 17, 2015
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(A busted and breached pond/dam wall) TYPE ONE ERRORS are classified as errors/mistakes on a site which will either cost you or the client a lot of time, money, or energy to replace, redo, or clear out of a system if installed incorrectly. There are very few TYPE ONE ERRORS in permaculture design – […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Mental Patterning

By nicholas
September 26, 2014
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In permaculture we look for constants and patterns such as: level pacifies water, the sun is always in the southern part of the sky while viewing from the northern hemisphere, or that the moon, which moves east 13-15 degrees in the sky each night causes it to rise around an hour later each day after […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Double The Yield

By nicholas
September 9, 2014
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When thinking about the placement of water loving plant species such as water chestnut and blueberries, it is beneficial to home them near the edge of a water feature such as a pond or grey water system. A whole day is usually given to the study of pattern in a permaculture design course. If we take a 1/4 […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Plan and Develop a Permaculture Site

By nicholas
September 2, 2014
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What is often left out in much of permaculture teaching is the “how to install the design”. And not only what that entails, but steps in how to do it. It is most manageable when the design is implemented in stages and each stage should build upon the previous (an the electrical system works better and installs […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The 5 Layers of a Prairie

By nicholas
August 14, 2014
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Depending on where you live the word prairie can be exchanged with rangeland or grassland. The popular, and profound, work of Allan Savory and his Holistic Management has shown how large herding animals graze off of rangelands/prairies, and then are moved by predators, thus giving us a blueprint of how rangeland ecosystems function. This knowledge […]

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