This is part 1 of a slideshow i delivered at the mountain homesteading festival concerning the zones closest to the house. It goes over information about landscaping itself and the integration of food plants and the support species to make it a holistic permaculture design. It also addresses soil and water issues. Part 1 focuses on the broad patterns of why and how and the integration of permaculture design. It zooms to more detail on water harvesting and also starts to look at plant selection and arrangement.

1. Edible Landscaping
through ecological design

2. Definition
from OSU
• Use of food‐producing
plants in residential
landscape
• It combines fruit and
nut trees, berry
bushes, vegetables, he
rbs, edible flowers, and
other ornamental
plants into
aesthetically pleasing
designs
• any garden style
• 1‐100% edible

3. • Hosta • Rugosa Rose • Basil
• Hydrangea • M. Viburnum
• Lilac • Fennel & Dill

4. How?
• Ethics and Principles
of Permaculture
Design to interface
with common land-use

5. Design Science
Seek
relation-
ships

6. What is Permaculture?
"
“Though the problems of the world are
increasingly complex, the solutions remain
embarrassingly simple.”
By Bill Mollison

7. Ethics

8. The Design Process

9. Design

10. “Without a plan, there is no
commitment, hence no accountability.”
Henri Fayol

11. Using Energy Small
Biologica Cycling Scale
l
Energy Resources
Intensive
Accelerating
Efficient Successio
Plannin n
g
Multiple Diversity
Elements
Multiple Edge
Awarenes
functions s
Relative Design Attitudinal
Location Principles principles

12. Multiple Functions for each
Important Element
• Spring/summer/fall blossom
• Interesting fruit
• Fall Color
• Aesthetic Pleasing
• Leaf filler
• Groundcover
• Edible or medicinal Quality

13. Why?
• Way to transition from harmful chemical use to
organic means of landscaping

14. 58 Million
Americans $30
Largest
billion
agricultural
every
sector in
year to
U.S.
maintain
More
equipment, l 23
abor, fuel, an Million
d agricultural The Acres
toxins American
Lawn
One hour
on a Could have a
mower= a small lawn
and produce
car veggies for a
driven home of 6
350 miles
Enough to
270
water 81
billion
million acres
gallons
of organic
of water
veggies all
a week
summer long

15. Why?
• Local food
movement
• Less dependency
on global food
system
• Community
resiliency

16. Small Scale
Intensive
20 million Victory Gardens
in 1943
They were producing 41%
of the vegetables being
consumed in the USA

17. Why?
• Improves health of overall ecosystem and
those who are engaged in stewarding the
land with the intention of food production

18. Why?
• Builds
community
• Cooperation with
Neighbors

19. What? Greening the
Desert
• Village homes • Normal development

21. How to move forward

22. What ecosystem are you
mimicking?

23. Ecosystem Mimicking
• Wetland
• Prairie
• Woodland edge
• Mature Forest
• Early successional emergence
• Traditional Landscaping

25. zones
Zone- Placing Elements in our
Design based on Intensity of Use

27. Water
• Conserve strategies
• Reuse strategies
• Zero runoff strategies
• Earthworks percolation
• Storage in tanks and cisterns
• Succession Enhancement

28. SWALES
Swales are water
harvesting ditches
and mounds on
contour.

30. Rain Gardens

32. Rain Barrel

33. Plants/ Forests
• Stacking in Space and Time
• Diversity breeds resiliency
• Develop nucleus and expand to connect
• Food Forests
• Annual Vegetables
• Perennial Vegetables
• Ornamental
• Integrated Pest Management

35. Natural Forest Diversity
Forest Gardening

38. Providing Physical
Shelter (PPS) Guild
Design
Providing
Nutrients (PN)
Assist in
Pest Control
Reducing Root
(APC)
Competition (RRC)
build interconnections

39. Central Element- Paw Paw
Cana Lily- PN, APC, PPS, RRC, ED Jerusalem Artichoke-
Echinecea- APC, MD PN, APC, RRC, PPS, ED
Comfrey- PN, APC, RRC, Goats Rue- PN, PPS, ED
PPS, ED, MD
Horseradish- PN, PPS, ED