Survey on Location Advise

Posted on 2019-02-10 21:02:00+01:00 in surveys • Modified on 2019-04-27 19:45:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, location design

What are other people advising on location choice?

John Michael Greer - Ecosophia

From a comment by sandy on the Archdruid Report (discontinued):

  • Keep calm, take your meds, and carry on;
  • If possible move to a small town less than 50k people;
  • 100 mi. (160 km) from coast;
  • 400 mi. (650 …

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Haybox from common household items

Posted on 2019-01-14 22:00:00+01:00 in designs • Modified on 2025-09-08 16:13:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, appropriate technology, CEAP, zones and sectors, ethics, attitudinal principles, haybox

This is a small design I did to show the different options available for making a haybox at home.

haybox in use

Another, more recent article documents our current (2025) use of the haybox.

Background

In our household we try to reduce our need for fossil fuels. One way is to prevent cooling …


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Designing a food forest in Nuenen

Posted on 2019-01-07 22:00:00+01:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-04-15 14:06:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, zones and sectors, planning for real, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, hugelculture, compost

Overview map

Overview map (courtesy of OpenStreetMap) © OpenStreetMap-auteurs. The red area shows where the food forest is located within the grounds of the Weverkeshof.

Background

The Weverkeshof is a city farm in Nuenen. They would like to convert a (small) part of their grounds into a food forest. This page details how …


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PASTE survey allotment garden (2018)

Posted on 2018-12-31 15:00:00+01:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: fall

Starting from 2018-09-01, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. This survey lists the different species discovered.

Plants

  • Alium ? (onion family / uienfamilie)
  • Amaranthus blitum (purple amaranth / Kleine Majer)
    • leafs edible like spinach
  • Brassica juncea ssp. Juncea (Chinese mustard/ amsoi)
    • cultivar King Mustard
    • cultivar Red Giant
    • cultivar …

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Design balcony

Posted on 2018-12-27 17:04:00+01:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, SADIMet, 9 ways of observing, ethics, Holmgren principles

Background

Ilona and Stefan want to limit the view from the neighbors. They would like a nice environment to look out onto from their living room.

Design team

The design was done by:

  • Arno Peters (permaculture designer)
  • Ina Heinz (permaculture designer)

Design strategy

We used SADIMet for this design.


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Dragon Dreaming Design Process

Posted on 2018-11-04 15:00:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with dragon dreaming

Dreaming

  • Awareness
  • Motivation
  • Gathering Information
  • Celebration dreaming phase

Planning

  • Consideration of Alternatives
  • Design of a Strategy
  • Testing / Trialing a Pilot
  • Celebration planning phase

Doing

  • Implementation
  • Management and Administration
  • Monitoring Progress
  • Celebration doing phase

Celebrating

  • Acquiring New Skills
  • Transforming Results for Individuals
  • Discerning Wisdom
  • Celebration celebrating phase

Design family project in Gunsleben

Posted on 2018-09-28 20:00:00+02:00 in designs • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, building design, SADIMet, kanban, client interview, 9 ways of observing, ethics, dreaming circle, mind map, mapping, zones and sectors, SWOC, PMI, attitudinal principles, planning for real, input output analysis

map of the site

Map created from satellite image, openstreetmap and provided sketch. Download and open the file in a vector editor like Inkscape to see and play with the different layers.

Design summary

This work is the result of a PDC held in Gunsleben, Germany. The first week was …


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Design Arno's company

Posted on 2018-09-25 22:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2019-08-28 20:17:00+02:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, general design, CEAP, 9 ways of observing, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles

Background

I currently work for a few customers as a programmer and for a few others as a systems administrator for their Linux systems.

Current situation (2018) is a physical servers at two different locations. One is in a local data center with a optic fiber connection and one is …


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Voedselbos op de Weverkeshof

Posted on 2018-08-29 12:47:00+02:00 in publicity • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen

Overview map

Ontwerp van het voedselbos met de verschillende bedden, paden en bomen. Onderaan de legenda met onder meer een windroos, de schaal en de opkomst en ondergang van de zon op beide zonnewenden (zomer en winter) en op de equinox.

Op de Weverkeshof gaan we een voedselbos maken. We …


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Design allotment garden

Posted on 2018-08-11 15:00:00+02:00 in designs • Modified on 2024-12-31 21:35:00+01:00 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven

We had the allotment between September 2018 and December 2024.

Design strategy

We used CEAP for this design.

Note: this design was never quite finished. We have started putting elements into action before having a complete design …


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