Horty Kim

Ok so I have enrolled in a permaculture course and you can follow along with me and nine other people on our adventure.The first session was friday feb 22 and we looked at permaculture principles and did quite a lengthy introductions session.Leigh has also enrolled and he has nut shelled the sessions as well. So check out this link.

And here is some vid I have taken so far and I have copied the following text that Leigh wrote to explain the learning objectives for our fieldtrip

Today we visited a local permaculture garden surrounded by a natural forest ecosystem. We walked around observing the system with all our senses and what ever knowledge we had at hand. We paid particular attention to the boundaries between the natural ecosystem and the cultivated ecosystem (permaculture gardens). We discussed what services we thought the natural ecosystem performed such as shelter, filtering, information, biodiversity, decomposition and many others. We then heard from the land owner about the time he and others have spent observing and interacting with this ecosystem, and how they went about slowly developing their own cultivated ecosystem within it.

In the afternoon we returned to the classroom to talk about the importance of sensory observations and keeping diary notes on these.

We then moved onto base maps and sector analysis maps, and the yields and needs analysis of permaculture elements