We met again with the students on Thursday to go over some general principles of permaculture design and to talk about element analysis. We used the classic example of the permaculture chicken and how all of the needs and outputs of the chicken can be integrated into the other elements of a site. Then the students got busy listing out the elements that they had requested from last week and analyzing them. We looked at how all of the elements have needs that can come from the outputs of other elements. This is one basic premise of permaculture design - planning ahead to create a system that is in balance. Next we will sit down with the students to use all of the lessons we have talked about this month to create model proposals for the new site. Exciting!
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