Design Arno's backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-24 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2018-12-30 23:05:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven, CEAP, client interview, ethics, zones and sectors, 9 ways of observing, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles

This is the main design for the backyard. It ties the other designs for the garden together.

Arno's jungle on 2018-05-18

Backyard in the middle of May 2018.

My front yard and back yard provide the perfect practice ground for trying out new ideas. These pages document some of the ideas I have executed …


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Compost bin in Arno's backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-23 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, backyard, compost, CEAP, Holmgren principles

This is a design for the compost bin in Arno's backyard.

2018-05-08

Background

Designer: Arno Peters.

Design strategy

I used CEAP in designing this.

Collect site information

See site information for all collected information on the backyard.

The Humanure Handbook from Joseph Jenkins provides great insight into composting.

I watched several …


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Designing a water catchment for Arno's backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-22 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, water catchment, CEAP, Holmgren principles

This is a design for the water catchment in Arno's backyard.

2018-03-26

Water comes from the downspout via the grey pipe on the left. Water is stored in the blue barrel. Water overflows via the black tube and then down the brown pipe. The bucket makes for a small bird pool …


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Designing the hugels (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-21 14:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, hugelculture, Holmgren principles, CEAP

This is a design for the hugelculture in Arno's backyard.

2017-03-06

Background

Designer: Arno Peters.

Design strategy

I used CEAP in designing this.

Collect site information

See site information for all collected information on the backyard.

Available materials for the hugels:

  • cuttings
    • branches from Viburnum tinus (laurustinus / sneeuwbol)
    • branches from Pinophyta …

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PASTE survey for the backyard (2018)

Posted on 2018-05-21 14:00:00+02:00 in surveys • Modified on 2019-04-22 21:02:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, backyard, site information, PASTE, DAFOR(N)

This survey is part of designing the backyard

The extra information for each plant is derived from the following sources:

Plants

DAFOR(N)

Dominant

  • Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca (mirabelle plum / mirabel)
    • only one, takes up most …

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History of Arno's neighborhood (in Dutch)

Posted on 2018-05-19 14:00:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with survey, backyard, history

This historic overview is part of site information of Arno's backyard

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080501092921/http://wijkoverleg-lievendaal.dse.nl/historie.htm

Chronologie Lievendaal

Jaar Gebeurtenis
1551 Oudste vermelding van de naam Lievendaal
1929 NV Philips koopt o.a. Lievendaal
1930 Oudste uitbreidingsplan voor de Lievendaal (de Casseres …

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Site information of Arno's backyard

Posted on 2018-05-19 12:00:00+02:00 in surveys • Modified on 2019-08-29 13:57:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, backyard, site information

This site information is used in at least the following designs:

Location and context

My backyard located in an urban neighborhood in Eindhoven, a medium sized city (228000 inhabitants) in the Netherlands.

  • Geolocation: 51.44N / 5.43E …

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PASTE survey food forest Weverkeshof (2018)

Posted on 2018-03-26 14:06:00+02:00 in surveys • Modified on 2019-04-22 20:53:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, PASTE, season: spring

This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.

In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or indirectly at the Weverkeshof in 2018.

Plants

  • Aegopodium podagraria (ground elder / zevenblad)
  • Arum maculatum (snakeshead / gevelkte aronskelk)
  • Bryophyta (moss / mos …

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Social design monastery Reek

Posted on 2018-02-08 14:00:00+01:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, social design, Reek, 9 ways of observing, forms of capital, attitudinal principles, SADIMet, mapping, planning for real, dreaming circle, mind map, client interview, zones and sectors, PMI, Holmgren principles

We designed the social elements of a monastery building at Reek. Our aim was to gain understanding of and hands-on experience with the different design tools in the permaculture toolbox.

Background and team

This work was part of the hands-on design part of the Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at Lotus …


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