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Permaculture
Design
✤ Whole Systems
Consideration and
Integration
✤ Pattern Literacy
✤ Climate Specific
Soil Building
✤ Regenerative
Fertility
✤ Water and Nutrient
Cycling By Warren Brush
Washington DC
January 2015
For Resilient Human
Habitats
Design
Methodologies
Multiple
Functions
Relative
Location
Multiple
Elements
Energy
Efficient
Planning
Using
Biological
Resources
Using Small
Scale
Intensive
Energy
Cycling
Accelerating
Succession
Edge
Harmonics
Attitudinal
Principles
Using
Biological
Resources
Care of the Earth Care of the People Return of Surplus
Permaculture is an whole systems ethical
design process that draws from science,
indigenous understanding and
natural patterning
Permaculture
Design
Process
Data Gathering Observation &
Assessment
Element
Analysis
Sector Analysis
Slope
Analysis
Zone Analysis
Community
Engagement
Feedback
Integration
Interpretation
Relative
Placement
Permaculture methodologies are a scaleable tool that is sensibly
applied in site specific applications to rural, peri-urban and urban
sites of human settlement
Former 5 acre dump site
for neighboring high-
density, low-income
community
Poor soil structure and
nutrient profile
Small Farmholding Development - Kenya
Design process was
initiated for the site
Initial Design Process Assembled for Site
Earthworking Strategies
Slowing Entropy
Basis of Soil Building
Benefits of
Earth Shaping
Erosion mitigation
Water/nutrient harvesting and
reticulation
Micro-climate creation
Perennial planting structure
Alley cropping agroforestry
system with perennials and
annual production
Resource Identification and
Waste integration using
BIOGAS DIGESTERS
Nutrition per square meter of
planting is nearly 10x that of
a mono crop system
Mulches, support species
(nutrient fixing, etc.),
perennial and annuals,
earthworks, and patterning
create soil building systems
Animal integration is
essential for healthy and
effective nutrient cycling.
Three years of
soil building and
growth
Practical
Application of
Permaculture
Design
WARREN BRUSH
www.permaculturedesign.us
805-729-8131
casitasvalley.com pri-kenya.com quailsprings.org
Community Engagement Data Gathering
✤ Linking Wealth to Ecological and Social Equitability
✤ Local Cultural and Social Relevance (Shelter, Water, Energy, Food, Economics/Exchange, Governance, Unseen Patterns)
✤ Gathering Data on Land Use, Cadastral Information, Topography, Soil Profile and Consistency, Watershed History, Weather Patterns, Precipitation, Social Patterns, Disturbance History, Plant Stock and Seed Access, Cooking and Nutrition Patterns, Resource Assessment, etc…
Site Observation
✤ Varied periods of time and season
✤ Different vantage points
✤ Non-judgemental observations noted
Element Analysis
Relative placement
Each function needs
to be supported by at
least three elements
Each element needs
to support at least
three functions
Zone Analysis
Sector Analysis
✤ Element placement in relation to external energies
Slope Analysis
✤ Nutrient cascade
✤ Water flow
✤ Energy/gravity
✤ Microclimate
Feedback Integration
✤ Pulling the design altogether
✤ Creating feedback benchmarks
✤ Staging design
