Hello dear ones,
After a more than a week of being on a sick leave, I am back. I was sick with Coronavirus, and I was not able to do any work. My working week started on Wednesday. The days following, I finished with the third chapter of Bill Mollison’s book “Permaculture- a designer’s manual”.
This chapter is dedicated, as I mentioned in the last blog as well, to the different methods of design. From what I understood, these varieties of methods can be selected and used in a combination that will serve the most in our situation and site. Some of the methods have to be done on site and some can be done in a different place. Both are of the same value and they complement each other. For example no matter how many analyses of the components of our design we make, it serves us nothing if we do not make the observation of the site and make the most useful links and placement between them (the components), but the analyses also serve us that when we do make the observation we already have the information needed to start acting or to solve some “problem”. I made a scheme of the different methods, which is the feature image of this blog.
The methods in the book are very well explained and systematically put, but for a simplified, and the same time very rich explanation I recommend the video from Andrew Millison, that I will post below.
In this chapter Mollison also explains about the slopes and guilds, the importance and the beauty of them. I will be honest, I was personally afraid of slopes, especially because I own a site that has a big slope. My mind just couldn’t get the idea that you can make a garden in such site, but the more I get the into permaculture I could say I feel happier about it. Below I am posting a video from Andrew Millison on the subject, where he explains also visually. If you are like me and have a fear of slopes, this video will surely help you understand the beauty of it.
Until next week.
Love,
Marija
