Urban Permaculture Garden Design
Urban permaculture provides information for urban gardeners about fruit and vegetable cultivation organic and sustainable gardening methods and do it yourself guides to get started.
Urban permaculture garden design. More posts about urban permaculture ideas. The site was 97 grass with an old double car garage which was replaced with the small house a few raised garden beds growing rosemary and weeds one gloriously old and. Today i m going to discuss what permaculture is with some examples of permaculture design.
I just completed a sustainable edible garden design for red bull corporate in santa monica using what was previously a completely dead space. The story might have relevance to others attempting. Adam grubb and dan palmer are some of the most accomplished urban permaculture designers i know.
Rooftops balconies flower beds apartment spaces and even community gardens can be used to create a more sustainable more permaculture focused living space. The basics of permaculture is the use of elements which already exist in nature to create sustainable food producing gardens. I fell in love with backyard permaculture design gardening years ago.
Originally published in 1999 this is the story of how a permaculture educator went about designing and building a suburban garden in sydney. We d love to see you there. An urban permaculture home on october 9 2018 a beautiful photo story of an urban home jane hilliard from designful and i hannah designed together and that s just been finished.
Urban permaculture is applying permaculture ideas and principles to urban settings. Using permaculture principles you will be able to turn your urban space regardless of the size or whether it s a rooftop balcony or patio into a. It is using the idea that you take whatever space you have and transform it with permaculture design.
What you need to decide at the outset is the degree of incorporation of permaculture principles in garden design. Whether you are designing your own urban plot a community garden your whole city block or a ten thousand acre parcel permaculture begins with the premise that by mimicking and working with nature s principles we can design for long term abundance and healthy habitat for all life from microscopic soil organisms to humans. Our next urban permaculture design course is coming up fast in sydney this january it will be two weeks of design techniques and strategies to make cities better places to live.