Marisha Auerbach's presentation from the 2016 All About Fruit Show

1. What is Permaculture?
~ It is a design system for human settlement based on context.
~ Guided by the native ecology, we design our built environments for
stewardship of our resources.
~ Permaculture design strives to meet human
needs locally while caring for the other
species and neighboring communities.
~ We begin with a thoughtful site analysis. We determine
the unique climatic considerations, resources, limiting factors,
to guide meeting the needs of inhabitants onsite.
Resilience is recognizing our interdependance.

3. 5
Bill Mollison
David Holmgren & Sue Dennet Rosemary Morrow & Robyn Francis
Masanobu Fukuoka

9. They paved Paradise and put up a Parking Lot……

10. HEPA,
Ha Tinh Province,
Vietnam

12. Know your Climate:
Hardiness zone: 8b
(15 - 20 degrees F)
Average high temp. in
summer: 77 degrees
Average low temp. in
winter: 38 degrees
Record High Temp. = 107 F
Record Low Temp. = - 3 F
Average first frost:
October 18
Average last frost: April 26
Portland, OR Jan Feb March April May June July August Sept Oct Nov Dec
High Temp: 45 51 56 60 67 74 78 80 74 62 52 45
Low Temp: 34 37 38 41 47 52 56 56 52 44 38 34
Precip.: 5.4 3.9 3.6 2.4 2.1 1.5 .6 1.1 1.8 2.7 5.3 6.1
Annual Rainfall: 37.5”

15. Zones
of Use

16. List Elements
Assemble based on beneficial relationships

17. * 1 in 4 children do not have enough to eat.
* Many individuals who struggle with hunger are working and not homeless.
* More than 2 million rural households experience food insecurity.
* Hunger is increasing at an alarming rate in America.
Source: Feeding America: http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america.aspx

18. Design From Patterns to Details

19. Bunny Love Carrots,
New Cuyama, CA

23. Design happens within a context

24. Many climate experts – from officials
at the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization to
sustainable environmentalist and
2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Wangari Maathai – agree that
allowing farmland to revert to its
natural grassy or wooded states is
the easiest and most direct way to
slow climate change.

25. Permaculture Design provides ecosystem functions.

28. From the Permaculture Designers Manual by Bill Mollison

29. Analog Species
provide design clues

30. Consider native food webs
to enhance ecosystem
functions

31. Plants Provide Diverse Yields and Services:
~ Food
~ Medicine
~ Cut Flowers
~ Habitat for wildlife
~ Repels pests
~ Nutrients in soil
~ Makes soil more receptive
~ Nitrogen Fixation
~ Mulch
~ Fiber
~ Fuel
~ Weed Suppression

32. System Establishment Guild

33. Text
Mutual Support Guild

34. Resource Partitioning Guild

35. Multiple elements for
a single function
Diverse soil building strategies
are critical to support
our gardens through
the drought of the summer

36. Local Water
Filtration Strategies

37. Put in my own water catchment shot
Multiple
functions
for single
elements

38. Case Study: My Home, Portland, OR
typical and easily replicable

39. One year later...
The lawn is a vague memory...
2.5.20123.19.2013
Two Years Later,
we can get lost in the landscape
6.18.2014

40. Site Analysis

42. Zone Analysis

43. Current Conceptual Map

45. Principle of Cyclic Opportunity: every cyclic
event increases the opportunity for yield.
To increase cycling is to increase yield.

47. Zone 2: Fruit Trees,
Berries,
Perennials
Zone 2:
Field Crops
Zone 1: Annual Vegetable Production

48. Zone 2: Field Crops,
Compost
Zone 2: Fruit Trees, Berries, Rabbits, Chickens
Zone 1: Annual Vegetables,
Gathering Space, Container Gardens

49. Abundance and
resilience don’t
come from how
many elements
you have in the
system….
Interrelationships
between the
elements leads to
abundance and
resilience.

57. Permaculture for
International
Development

58. Turning Problems into Solutions

61. Thank You!
For further information,
visit permaculturerising.com
or email:
marisha.permaculturerising@gmail.com
My next workshop:
Saturday, October 22:
Food Forest Workshop at Nana Cardoons
Forest Grove, OR