Permaculture Design for SF Residential

LandscapesKevin Bayuk

Prepared for SF Green Building Professionals Guild

May 2010

Clifford Harper

So What is Permaculture?

PEOPLEPEOPLECARECARE

SHARE the SURPLUSSHARE the SURPLUS

PLANETPLANETCARECARE

Permaculture History and Definitions

Catch & Store Energy

Use and Value Renewable Resources & Services

Integrated Rather Than Segregate

Value Edges and the MarginalValue Edges and the Marginal

5 Urban Applications of Permaculture Principles

Trees or vegetation for shade and windbreak Kitchen, Kitchen, Kitchen Landscape access pathways on contour Polyculture

Support species

Physical Habitat

Focus on the Kitchen

Contour

Polyculture

Help grow food

Sheet mulchingDivert cardboard and “construction waste” into

landscape

Raised beds on contour Perennial veggies, backyard orchard culture Compost on site

Vermi-composting and pile

Living fences

Favorite Perennial Vegetables

Tree Collards Scarlet Runner

Beans Nine Star Broccoli Viola odorata - Sh Perennial Arugula -

FS French Sorrel Nettles

Perpetual Spinach

Scorzonera hispanica

Daylily Artichoke or

Cardoon Asparagus - FS Pepino Dulce Tilia cordata Chayote - FS

Fruit Trees Almonds Apples Apricots Asian Pears Avocado Cherry Citrus Fig Kiwi Loquat

Mulberry Nectarine Olives Peach Pear Pineapple Guava Plum Pluots Persimmon Pomegranate

Cultivars

http://www.urbanpermacultureinstitute.com/ployculture-guilds.html

Favorites Apple

Gordon, Fuji Apricot

Katy, Gold Kist Cherry

Minnie Royal, Royal Lee, Amarillo (Sour)

Citrus Meyer Improved

Fig Desert King,

Osborne Prolific

Loquat Benlehr,

Advance Pear

Seckel Pineapple Guava Plum

Methley, Valor, Beauty, Weeping Santa Rosa

Pluots

Favorite

PLUMS!

Backyard Orchard Culture

Belgian Fence

Compost Systems

Reduce Water Use

Rainwater harvestingGreywaterMulchingPerennial vegetationSidewalk landscaping

Rainwater Harvesting

System for House in Oregon

Rain Garden

Source: USEPA 1992Source: USEPA 1992

Total Total Greywater=Greywater=

59%59%

Art Ludwig

Art Ludwig

Jane Martin

Visioning- Kitchen Garden

What does your client eat? What would your client like

to eat? Brainstorm actual meals…

Soft Fruit & Groundcover

Raspberries Cape Gooseberry - PSh Blackberries - Sh Evergreen Huckleberries - Sh Ugni - PSh Thimbleberry - Sh Eleagnus - PSh Currants - Sh Strawberries - PSh

Rare Fruit?

Fuschia - Sh F. splendens

Tamarillo Strawberry Guava Opuntia sp. Babaco - PSh Passiflora mollissima Arbutus unedo - PSh

Favorite Herbs

Anise Hyssop Borage Calendula Chamomile Lemon Balm Nasturtium -PSh Rosemary Lemon Verbena

Sage Salad Burnet Thyme Valerian Yarrow Yerba Buena - PSh Miner’s Lettuce - PSh Chives

Root Crops

Oca Yacon Mashua Potato onions Sunchoke - PSh Canna edulis - PSh

Support Functions

Nitrogen fixer Dynamic accumulator Ground cover Pest suppression/confusion Insectary Climber Trellis for climber Windbreaks/shelter

Some Support Species Nitrogen fixer

Clovers Eleagnus - PSh Acacia Fava beans - PSh Vetch Alfalfa

Dynamic accumulator Comfrey Nettles - PSh Yarrow Borage Chicory - PSh Dandelion

Some Support Species

Ground cover Alyssum Clover Yarrow Mint - Sh Strawberries - PSh

Pest suppression/confusion Alliums Most herbs Marigolds

Some Support Species Insectary

Alyssum Clover Comfrey Fennel Linden

Windbreaks/shelter Sunchoke - PSh Fig Loquat Mulberry - PSh Acacia Eleagnus - PSh

Resources and Further Info

ROI Design and Installation help

Upcycle - David Cody - david@upcyclegroup.com

SF Landscapes - http://www.sflandscapes.com/

SF Permaculture Guildwww.permacultrue-sf.org

Classes at UPI, UC BEX, EAT

kevin@uas.coopkevin@uas.coophttp://www.permaculture-sf.org/urban-pdc.html

Summer PDC starting June 16th