Posted on 2020-07-06 14:39 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, PASTE, season: summer
This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.
This year we did a new PASTE survey. The data was gathered on 2020-07-06. See also the previous PASTE survey.
In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or …
Posted on 2020-06-22 21:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: summer
Starting from 2018-09-01, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. This survey lists the different species discovered in June 2020. For comparison, at two years ago I did the same thing.
This list is part of the ongoing design for the allotment garden.
Posted on 2020-02-19 13:53 in workshop • Modified on 2020-11-09 11:13 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with workshop, permaculture, 9 ways of observing, forms of capital, bullet journaling, dragon dreaming, dreaming circle, community, life design, social design, 4 questions, vision, mental inventory
This workshop is in response to a question from Ana and Gábor for help with finding direction in their lives. The outline below is based on the process I followed for the design of my own life with additional resources from books, websites and blog posts I have read and …
Posted on 2019-09-21 21:15 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2019-04-22 21:02 in surveys • 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:
Posted on 2019-04-15 14:06 in surveys • 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.
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 …
Posted on 2019-03-17 20:57 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2019-03-05 14:27 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • 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 2019-03-04 15:18 in blog • Modified on 2019-03-05 14:26 • Written by Arno Peters • 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 …
Posted on 2019-02-10 21:02 in surveys • Modified on 2019-04-27 19:45 • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, location design
What are other people advising on location choice?
From a comment by sandy on the Archdruid Report (discontinued):