Category: TreeYo EDU

Curb Cuts | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Curb Cuts | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook. Will be switching back and forth from water and soil on EDU releases these coming weeks.  This one is on Curb cuts, a way to increase your infiltration and irrigation efforts from diverting impervious surface runoff… Continue Reading “Curb Cuts | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Soil Food Web Intro | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

A healthy food web ensures that nutrient cycling speeds along giving the plants exactly what they need and through symbiosis the plant is providing the soil food web the food resources and overall niche for their proliferation. via Soil Food Web Intro | A… Continue Reading “Soil Food Web Intro | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Swale Design Process Case Study 1 | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Swale Design Process Case Study 1 | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook. Follow up article on swales to give a case study look at the design process behind a specific implementation.  She, swaltastic, turns 5 this year which is quite an achievement as the… Continue Reading “Swale Design Process Case Study 1 | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Permaculture Swales | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

In a pattern sense, swales deal with pulses of energy also seen as a wave, just as sound frequency moves in waves. Their shape is a ditch and a mound and one summer in Portugal we built a swale at the beach to demostrate the… Continue Reading “Permaculture Swales | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Infiltration Earthworks | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Infiltration Earthworks | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook.   Latest EDU release on Infiltration Earthworks in the water chapter making it more of a pattern based level of discussion. Details coming soon on elements like swales. These earthworks are pivotal in our regenerative efforts… Continue Reading “Infiltration Earthworks | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Greywater | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Greywater | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook.   It’s a hole in the ground with carbon and plants, with a 2% drop from the collection pipes to the earthwork, minimal maintenance. Not rocket science. Radical simple greywater systems. Our latest EDU release. lots more… Continue Reading “Greywater | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Aquatic Plant Ecology | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Really pleased with this article, slides and incorporation of design graphics.  Love the topic, aquaculture and the plant side of it.  Read, comment or share please.  http://treeyopermacultureedu.wordpress.com/chapter-13-aquaculture/useful-aquatic-plants/Aquatic Plant Ecology | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook.

Animal Systems | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Animal Systems | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook. Having started on a 130 ha project in Alentejo, Portugal this week this is an appropriate release. Healing the planet with using the rhythmic pattern of animals in rotation, intensive grazing using animal impact, and layering… Continue Reading “Animal Systems | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Fermentation | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

via Fermentation | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook .Besides being a direct contact with nature and making your zone 0 more multifunctional, ferments have true value in permaculture systems.  And no I am not talking about the yucky sauerkraut from the supermarket that we all… Continue Reading “Fermentation | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”

Small-Scale Intensive | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

Small-Scale Intensive | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook. Another release from EDU page. This very important principle allows us to stack in space and time to obtain multiple yields all the while building overall system health. Make food forests!!!!!  Details one of the first… Continue Reading “Small-Scale Intensive | A Permaculture Design Course Handbook”