Start-up+project

Where to start? What you want to do and why? Who, how many what are our skills and ressouces //Example: Two persons, research, design, growing mushrooms, composting, biking...//

1. Chose a good site ( permaculture forum) __Context__ __Climate__ __Site__
 * Preparatory phase**
 * regional (in or out of urban plan area..
 * locale (village proximity, commerces, local labor condition)
 * political (conservatory region or anarchy, corruption, possible subventions and fundings)
 * regional
 * microclimate
 * morphology (ampheteatric, flat
 * fertility
 * water
 * energetic potential
 * size (not too big, 1hectar is more than enough to feed some people, there are people living in sufficiency in 500m²)

//Exemple: 5000m² amphitheatric site, non cultivated, near river, out of the urban plan, near touristic village, in a socialist region//, with constructible surface.

__Mollison criteria__: own water supply potential, site suits what you want to do, site undervaluated in its present usage, multi-titled site without limitations, high improuvement capacity, not an expensive sub-division land, rehabilitation concern. (real estate agents like permaculture)

2.Communicate your project intentions

3.Sources of fundings and transparency: industriels, earthbank, community (forum), sponsorship, economy of donation (non contrepart) other: scale economy, recycling, exchanges, volunteering

Otherwise: Ideas of transforming wild areas to productive sites, find tha landowner or a buyer to demonstrate a revolutionary usage (ex.aloe vera than sheep raising) Managing a land: 2-3 months a year, buying in and selling stock, harvests arrange, market arrange

4.Learn permaculture principles and appropriate technics

//1. Know your site (maps, regulations, observation, experience// //Soil and water test, sun exposition//
 * Designing phase: fro the site itself**

2.__Resource inventory__: Listings of possible ressources of the site and possible combinations. -Personal resources (skills, capital, experience, material) and Social resources -Plant and Energy resources (Energy budgeting) -Resources of waste products and resources of market (unfulfilled demands)

3. Analyse and find the relationships between things. Recognise permaculture principales that fit. Design in the form of edges, patterning increasing functional relationships. Check if the solutions fit to your needs.

3. Think of an economic activity and lifestyle (creating cooperation and based on diversity) exemple: resto bio, cafe 24heures chill out soundsystem

Think the hole system from the large periphery to the smaller central areas and detail the project starting from the house.
 * Designing process: Water - house - zones - special ressources**

-Walk property boundaries: Observe and experience -Work around things in place (retrofit design) ex. existing house energy management -Design access roads with keyline principles -Place houses in order to have single water and road system, far from wind and fire tunnels, below ridges or on minor ridge, far from wildlife animals. -Design water system -Define frequency zones: __Zone 1__ (6-9m from the house), small animals, small plants, hight energy and production units, annuals perennials, greenhouse, 1,20m pond with watrecress and frogs eating slugs and insects annual garden mulched or not beds: often harvest soft herbs(broccoli, persley, salad greens...), one harvest vegetables like tubers, roots, head vegetables, compagnion flowers (daffodils, gladiola, nasturtiuns) paths, unplanted area for expention and play and dumping organic matter place zucchini and patty-pan squash, lettuce, spinach, green beans, pole-beans, __Zone 2__ (max. 8000m²) pruned orchard, main crop much used and stored, max tree visites to harvest,maybe row-cropped, not mulched and thin compost unless you have a lot, hight manurial animals. winter squash, strawberries, asparagus,rasberries (à 12m), pumpkings (they stream through trees) goats: corridor between 2 and 3, plant with rosa rugosa for good milk (also with expended mesh flooring, useful also for mud ground) porcs: in the back area 2 chickens: at the edge with zone one, feed with acorns or nut husk for high quality mulch (alkaline and high calcium) __Zone 3__ unpruned fruits, nuts, seedlings, unfrequant management, self-harvesting system, ajustements of existing system, non domestic animals, structural timber and firewood existing oaks, vines, sheeps (not the milk sheep)

__Edges and patterns__

One by one or paralel strategy? note some //à priori// ideas: Pre-treatement Agriculture: //Oranges// Construction: //Cob// Energy: //Prism//
 * Realisation phase**

//depences:// //terrain -// //achat grains et plants// //location de machines// //test sol et eau -// //main d´oeuvre// //eau, pompe, puit// //electricite -// //internet -// //materiaux de construction -// //tricycle ou velo ou ane -// //technology and low tec -//

//caracteristiques du terrain:// //2 hectar// //puis, sondage fait, ruisseau// //relief// //quelques arbres// //pres dune ville// //rue centrale//

//Notre plan notes:// //Tunisie// //Grèce//