Posted on za 21 september 2019 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, survey, site information, urban design, mapping, building design
Ina and I live in a house in a bloc constructed in 1957. Our house is a terraced house; we share two side walls with our neighbors. The house has three floors: the ground floor, the first floor and the attic.
Over the last years, Ina and I have …
Posted on wo 28 augustus 2019 in blog • Tagged with experiment, season: summer
This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting in July and Augst of 2019. Some things I put under several headings as they contain elements of both.
Posted on di 20 augustus 2019 in blog • Tagged with experiment
A few days ago a friend and I set out to do an experiment in distilling alcohol from a fermented sugar solution.
On 2019-04-13, I put the sugar ferment together as follows:
Yeast starter:
Sugar solution:
Posted on ma 12 augustus 2019 in tools • Tagged with PMI, CARVER matrix
This tool is an extension of a PMI analysis. It uses six categories for ranking. Where in a PMI the focus is on finding plusses and minusses in which ever way you can think of, the CARVER matrix specifies what to think about and the focus is on ranking those …
Posted on ma 22 april 2019 in surveys • 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:
Posted on ma 15 april 2019 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, PASTE, season: spring
This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.
This year we did a new PASTE survey. Data gathered 2019-04-15. See also the previous PASTE survey.
In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or indirectly at the …
Michael O. Church made a model of US social classes in 2012. The percentages given refer to US population numbers only. These models may have a limited correspondence to the social classes of Europe. I have taken the information from the original article and condensed it further.
Posted on zo 17 maart 2019 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, practical
On Saturday 2019-03-16 I followed a course in hedgelaying. Heg&Landschap organized it in a village close by. Lex Roeleveld was the instructor.
From Wikipedia:
[...] The aim is to reduce the thickness of the upright stems of the hedgerow trees by cutting away the wood on one side of the …
Posted on di 05 maart 2019 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, social design, community
In social permaculture the community plays a prominent role. Sometime in 2018 I became aware of research done by Dmitry Orlov on communities. He studied communities that last multiple generations; in his words: Communities that abide.
Orlov distilled a set of commandments that communities should obey. I found his list …
Posted on ma 04 maart 2019 in blog • Tagged with permaculture, attitudinal principles, experiment, season: fall, season: winter, season: spring
When making bread, the recommendation is to place the dough in a warm spot to rise for about one hour. Since we hardly heat the house in winter (the thermostat is set at 12°C; the living room is a bit warmer still) this proved a bit of a challenge …