Log

 

Week Weekly Activity Weekly hours Cumulative hours
Week 1 Farm orientation (learning names and behaviors of animals, feed recipes, familiarizing with tools and kitchen, etc.) 8 8
Dairy (milking some and primarily practicing cleaning procedures) 15 22
Feeding and sorting animals through pastures 3 25
Meal planning and preparation with food from farm 8 33
Food processing (making jam or yogurt, shelling peas for blanching, pitting plums and apricots for preservation) 4 37
Weeding 3 40
Netting plums and apricots 1 41
Making blog posts 1 42
Week 2 Dairy (milking and cleaning procedures) 15 57
Meal planning and preparation with food from farm 8 65
Feeding and sorting animals through pastures 3 68
Food processing 4 72
Weeding 2 74
Visiting Lyndal’s friends farms 2 76
Foraging for wild cherries 2 78
Exploring local farmers market 1 79
Fecal egg collection and testing 5 84
Pruning tomatoes 2 86
Reading seminar texts 2 88
Making blog posts 1 89
Week 3 Dairy 15 104
Meal planning and preparation with food from farm 8 112
Feeding and sorting animals through pastures 3 115
Cheesemaking 4 119
Vegetable rennet experiment 1 120
Weeding 3 123
Data entry on Lyndal’s computer recording  milk volumes 2 125
Trellising tomatoes 1 126
Food processing (more jam, sorting nuts, bottling olives) 3 129
Reading seminar texts 1 130
Making blog posts 1 131
Week 4 Pruning kiwis 10 141
Building compost 8 149
Beekeeping 2 151
Preparing new swarm box 3 154
Harvesting herbs 3 157
Clearing land for native tree patch 6 163
Carding alpaca wool 4 167
Fencing new paddock 2 169
Staking tomatoes 1 170
Weeding veggie garden 2 172
Learning to make my own bread and gnocci 2 174
Reading about permaculture design/learning techniques in practice on this farm 3 177
Writing seminar paper 1 178
Week 5 Attending Powhiri 4 182
Carding alpaca wool 2 184
Making compost 4 188
Weeding herb garden 3 191
Maori museum in Nelson 5 196
Malborough Wine & Food Festival 6 202
Talking with local farmers at Nelson market 3 205
Writing blog posts 2 207
Reading seminar text 1 208
 Week 6  Digging/cleaning potatoes  2 210
Repairing plumbing for irrigation 3 213
Making compost 5 218
Collecting seagrass 2 220
Foraging for mussels 2 222
Removing invasive species in native area 4 226
Seeding and transplanting garden 1 227
Straw bale house building education 1 228
Learning permaculture methods 1 229
Adding insulation to solar water heater 1 230
Carbon offsetting discussion in community 2 232
Tending to chickens (moving hen house, collecting eggs, feeding) 1 233
Harvesting & preparing meals with food from farm 5 238
Sustainable Golden Bay Event at Takaka Community Gardens 11 249
Writing blog posts 4 253
Week 7 (PDC Wk 1) Introduction to place: Tui Treefield 1.5 254.5
Writing community agreement 1.5 256
Sharing permaculture stories 1.5 257.5
Introduction to Permaculture 1.5 259
Ecological Principles & Ecoliteracy 1.5 260.5
Native plant walk 1.5 262
Pattern studies 1.5 263.5
Tui Community Q&A 1.5 265
Biome regions to microclimates 1.5 266.5
Site observation and base map practice at Inna’s house 1.5 268
Whole systems design principles 1.5 269.5
Design process 1.5 271
Deep ecology 6 277
Being water wise 1.5 278.5
Water harvesting design 1.5 280
Water harvest methods 1.5 281.5
Understanding biology, ecology, and fertility of soils 1.5 283
Soil testing in the treefield 1.5 284.5
Botany studies 1.5 286
Documentary: Symphony of the Soils 1.5 287.5
Properties of zone 1 gardens 1.5 289
Properties of zone 2 gardens 1.5 290.5
Building compost 1.5 292
Seed collection and saving (lettuce, kale, and tomatoes) 1.5 293.5
Sheet mulching 1.5 295
Holistic decision making and mind mapping 1.5 296.5
Animal functions in design 1.5 298
Chicken raising with guest speaker Keith 1.5 299.5
Animal systems design practice 1.5 301
Reading “Edible Forest Gardens” 3 304
Baking bread (every morning) 3.5 307.5
Harvesting mussels in Wainui Bay 1.5 309
Foraging for edible plants 1.5 310.5
Week 8 Urban permaculture 1.5 312
Forest ecosystem patterns 1.5 313.5
Restoration forestry 1.5 315
Wildlife corridors & natives design 1.5 316.5
Agroforesty design 3 319.5
Guild design practice 1.5 321
Permaculture as business (economic viability analysis) 1.5 322.5
Field visits to permaculture sites in Takaka community 7.5 330
Ecological building design 1.5 331.5
Household waste and energy management 1.5 333
Appropriate technology 1.5 334.5
Tui house walk (seeing permaculture homes) 3 337.5
House design exercise 1.5 339
Cohousing & Ecovillage design 1.5 340.5
Building bamboo greenhouse 3 343.5
Cobb earth building wall 1.5 345
Building rocket stove 1.5 346.5
Baking bread 3.5 350
Reading “Edible Forest Gardens” 2 352
Week 9 Social permaculture 1.5 353.5
Legal permaculture 1.5 355
Intro to Final Design projects 1.5 356.5
Forming design teams 1.5 358
Mapping skills 1.5 359.5
(Final design project begins) Client Interview 1.5 361
Site Analysis 3 364
Base map making 3 367
Visioning and goal setting 1.5 368.5
Ideation process 3 371.5
Zoning 1 372.5
Researching ideas viability 3 375.5
Critical feedback from teachers .5 376
Drafting broadscale final design 1 377
Mapping broadscale design 1.5 378.5
Creating staged plan for implementation 1.5 380
Food forest research for personal detailed design 2 382
Bubble mapping food forest design 1 383
Drawing detailed design 1.5 384.5
Powerpoint making and presentation prep 1 385.5
Final presentation to client and course attendees 1 386.5
Discussing design with client .5 387
Watching presentations of other groups 4 391
Final feedback from teachers .5 391.5
Where to from here: how to further permaculture studies 3 394.5
Baking bread 2.5 397
Week 10 Blogging about PDC 8 405
Self eval and powerpoint 2 407