Permaculture Garden Design Principles

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	If this week has been an interesting week for you and stimulated some ideas on how you might
0:17.7	approach a permaculture garden farm homestead, then this episode I think will be quite interesting.
0:25.3	We have Angela Ferraro fanning back on the show for one final day here, a Cornell University
0:30.4	certified permaculturist and homesteader in Central New Jersey, I would say to me,
0:37.0	Angela, design is a word that I don't associate myself with. I don't think I'm naturally good at it. I kind of design in like a geometric
0:46.3	fashion almost like I was playing a video game, that's what I used to do, like SimCity or something and like
0:51.0	plopping things down. So how do you approach it?
0:54.4	I mean, what would you say are some of your principles
0:57.4	of designing something for a permaculture garden?
1:01.4	Well, it's kind of a complicated answer.
1:04.1	I think the first thing is the easiest way to waste nothing, which is really important in a permaculture
1:08.9	lifestyle is to work with what you already have.
1:10.8	So if you already have a garden, it's more of a grid-based series of beds like when I moved
1:15.4	my property I found was here if you can work with what you have that's obviously
1:19.8	less wasteful but if you have the ability to be able to create your own garden from
1:26.0	scratch, one thing we really want to think about first is pathways and
1:29.1	whether or not you're going to be hauling in dirt regularly or large wheelbarrows full for
1:34.6	harvest or compost or what have you. So function is always going to follow form is
1:39.2	what I'm getting at. You want to make sure it's easy. Then we want to think about where are we going to keep our compost. A lot of people think, oh, well, it makes sense that we don't want to look at anything while it's composting, throw it in the way back corner. But then they put their garden maybe right next to
1:54.3	their house for ease of access when they're harvesting their herbs or their lettuce. But now we've
1:58.2	created a complication, right? Because every time we want to bring in compost, we have to
2:01.9	take it from point A to point B. So if there's a way to keep your
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