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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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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