Supporting Documents
Survey
Implement
Develop
Goals and how they are connected to the permaculture principles & Next Steps
Feedback Integration
Pathway Combination: Bachelor Degree and Permaculture Diploma
Annotated Ressource Review
Wordcount
The Wordcount is: 4562
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Participation Records
Monthly Check-Ins with my Learning Guild:
Cumulative check-ins
Main Advising session:
Since my last OP I had two Main Advising Sessions, but always was in good contact with my Main Advisor
Skill-flex session:
Virginia Menstell- Herb project: Skype recording below as evidence
Permaculture Mentoring:
Nesrin Caglak: See reflection on the right as evidence
Audio Recording: Skill-flex-session "herbs"
Digiphon
In this section, I am presenting all the tools and platforms I used, while I worked on my project and the OP.
Tools:
- Libre Office Writer to write texts
- Libre Office Draw to create pictures and diagrams
- Libre Office Calc to create tables
- XMind to create Mindmaps
- Zim, an open-source desktop-wiki to document and track my project work
- Grammarly to correct grammar, spelling and punctuation mistakes
- a camera to take pictures and videos
- a laptop as the working center
- Simple Image Reducer to reduce the size of pictures
- GIMP to edit pictures
Platforms:
- Mahara to present my OP
- Dropbox to save and upload (additional) material
- Flickr to embed pictures into Mahara
- Youtube to share our videos
Reflection on Peer Meetings
There were not many peer meetings during I submitted my last OP.
Nevertheless, I was in good contact with my Peers via Slack and with the help of monthly check-ins
we always knew what the others are working on.
There is also a new group on Slack about Permaculture Design. And we will soon have our first peer meeting.
But to be honest, at the moment I don't need more peer calls. I am satisfied with our group and also appreciate the new exchange with my Permaculture Mentor.
Visit of my Permaculture Mentor Nesrin Caglac
The visit of my permaculture mentor, Nesrin Caglak, was both, a skill-flex session and the support for OP 4 and also OP 5.
My Reflections on her visit
I was very thankful that Nesrin managed to visit us „in person“ with her family on our property.
As she has a lot of experience in gardening and permaculture she was able to assess our situation and give us some advice.
She understood our situation very well and our Mentoring Time was used very well. Especially about my focus project „growing and processing herbs“ we discussed a lot. She gave me valuable inspiration on how to design the herb field areas and how to manage the different species.
So our main results were the following:
- Focus on a few perennial herbs that are easy to harvest and have one bed (1,20m *10m) with one species
- Design the upper herb field as herb garden for visitors. On this area, I can try new herbs or produce flowers
- Re-think the Design for the two planned greenhouses and the pond; better use the space to create beds now and plant them. A greenhouse can be placed there later (if it is necessary)
- Decide for herb species that are very easy to harvest and where you get money for!
- Instead, plan a greenhouse with a maximum of 25 sqm.to raise herbs
Supporting materials, photos and drafts
Survey: Sunpath in winter and summer
Herbproject
Maps:
The first map was the first I drew from the herb field and the surrounding area. I measured distances roughly by foot, but that was not very precise.
The second map is scaled. Together with Fabian, I measured the distance between the elements with a yardstick. The vertical lines are the terraces and the circles with the cross inside mark a tree. With the help of this base map, I created a sectoring map. This was helpful to analyze the microclimate and is important to decide in the future where we want to grow what species.
The other two pictures are our field notes where we noted the distance between elements.