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Learning Targets and proposals from Vijana Wetu - Denmark

- Workshop 2 - Banda River Permaculture Demonstration Site -

This input to your workshop contains 4 sessions:

1. Going through and relate to the 12 Permaculture Principles

2. The overview of your Demonstration Site.

3. The Food Forest

4. Input - output analysis

It´s important to work with ´field activities´ along with the more theoretical content. ´Learning by doing´ is

a good principle.

We suggest you do the workshop in 3 parts.

1. day with Vijana Wetu and co. - Overview, planning and theory

2. & 3. day with Vijana Wetu and Earthquake - Hands on.. learning by doing

4. day with Vijana Wetu and co. again. - Overview, planning and theory

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Wishes from Vijana Wetu and Earthquake Womens Group- Kenya after workshop 1:

Making local pesticides drugs

Moulding modern jikos

Plants drafting

Seedlings management

Building the soil: Organic manure decomposition, compost, soil cover, mulch and other.

To say it in another way in the words of Derrick and Steve:

"The topics to be covered within the four days will be much of practical and will explain on the following:

Designing and maintaining your Edible Landscape naturally

Farming in nature’s image

Understanding plants for the future

Shelter and home work eg molding traditional energy saving jikos

Local food and organic gardening"

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Session 1 - Going through and relate to the 12 Permaculture Principles

See also the handout: The 12 Permaculture Principles by Holmgren

How can it be seen in the model, that we say: "The problem is the solution"

Identify a problem and analyze it.

How can you start using what you already have?

Book: Permaculture Design, A step-by-step guide, by Arania

Posters & handouts:

- The Design- map of Banda River Permaculture Demonstration Site

- The Permaculture flower and principles

- The Food Forest

- The SADIMET- diagram

- ´The Design of Banda River..´,

workshop 1 & 2, by Tove

The princple are: "Thinking tools, that when used together, allow us to

creatively re-design our environment and our behavior in a world of less

energy and resources"

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Session 2 - The overview of your Permaculture Demonstration Site

Look from patterns to detail in reality and in your design- map.

Make arrows in the map for the main wind direction

Draw existing elements, that you are not changing now.. fences, trees, houses, e.g. in your map.

Talk about the zoning of your site. Do an overlay with weak colors to show the zoning 1 - 5. (Aranya, page

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Use the SADIMET- diagram to indicate your project. Start with the SITE.

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Session 3 - The Food Forest

Wikepedia: "Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and

agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines

and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans."

See and discuss the posters of the Food Forest in the PDF attached

Make a list of the different trees that are already growing in your land

Make a list of the young trees you have planted recently

Make a list of species in your nursery

Relate your lists to the Posters.. how big do your trees get? How are they useful to you? Where to plant?

Nitrogen Fixers:

What is a nitrogen fixer?

Who are the nitrogen fixers?

Which nitrogen fixing trees and plants can you introduce in your beds and forest.

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Session 4 - Input-Output Analysis

Aims: To explain the 'Analysis of Elements' design method, and, using a simple group exercise, develop this into an opportunity for students to uncover some permaculture principles.

Learning outcomes: By the end of the session, students will be able to:

Use the Analysis of Elements method Explain why observation is crucial to the design process Explain what concepts such as pollution, extra work and relative location mean in a

Permaculture context Explain why creating beneficial relationships is crucial to permaculture design.

Method & timings:

2 minutes: introduction.

Introduce the session by drawing a large person on the whiteboard or flip chart with accompanying

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text:

10 minutes: whole group exercise: Ask the students to shout out suggestions for inputs/needs, outputs/products and finish with intrinsic characteristics, and add these to the drawing.

Question: Ask students how this method of analysis could be useful in design and map all suggestions without comment.

25 minutes: small group exercise: Split the students into small groups and produce one pre-drawn grid on a flip chart sheet per group:

With the hope, it´s useful! Yours Akinyi Tove