Design and Tour of MWP Home Residence
- Megan Christian
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The video below is an actual 45-minute section from our Online Permaculture Design (PDC) Certificate course. This will give you a very good feel for this 72-hr. training. In this section, Bill shares a full overview of how he and Becky designed and implemented a permaculture design on their residential property over a 15-year period. With the design map on the table, and the ‘before-n-after’ photos, it is an inspiring and educational insight into permaculture thinking and design.
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Below is the full design map should you wish to study it more closely. Click on the picture to enlarge and zoom in on any details that interest you.
Click Here to View a PDF of Each Layer as it Develops
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Here are a few of the Before and After photos you will find in the presentation.
Once the water harvesting system has been designed then we design for:
* Access (Key paths and walkways)
* Planting areas and grow beds
* Specific plant species – often forming compatible polycultures (guilds) in layers consisting of trees, shrubs, herbs, root crops and other dynamic plants and ground covers.
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Hope you enjoyed these.
We teach the basic elements of how to create a yard like this in all our key permaculture trainings Check out our offerings in the navigation above. Please join us sometime.
3 thoughts on “Design and Tour of MWP Home Residence”
Dear Bill and Becky,
So nice to still read your newsletters in my emailbox. This summer I finished my book called “Kiss the Earth”. It is about the combinations of plants. I realised very soon after the course in 2015 that I could easily teach the principles of Permaculture, but the know how of the plants was a different chapter altogether. So I spend countless (10.000+) hours to find combinations. My book offers 12 guilds with mostly what we eat and also what makes nature healthy and beautiful. Publishing date is probably next October before my 66th birthday. Your inspiration changed my life and I still love it. Thank you. Margriet van Dooren
Wonderful to hear from you Margriet. What a great course that was at CalEarth in 2015. We trust all is well with you in the Netherlands. Let us know when your book comes out and we will share of it’s release from our end. Cheers…
I love seeing the before and after photos! What a magnificent transformation!