Valldaura Labs
The topic of the day was social permaculture. Bioregionalism is the unit of self-sufficiency. We cannot be self-sufficient at the household level. In a bioregion, people have different skills (dentist, construction, farmers,…) The size is 100-10000 people. A city has several bioregions: the association of residents as informal networks. Our aim is: a stable bioregion [...]
We started the day speaking about disasters, which are extreme negative events that affect a whole community. Following the ethics, we should: save lives first, then property make full disaster plans use precautionary principle: if there may be a risk, it will certainly happen Our design aims are: to reduce extent or intensity to endure [...]
Today we talked about the Zone 4. it’s the zone where we put the restorative forest. The products of this forest can be summarized with the seven F’s: food, fuel, fodder, fruits, flowers, fibers, and fertilizers. In permaculture, 40% of the site should be under forest cover, either productive forest, or untouched forest (zone 5). [...]
Today we began with a mid-course evaluation where everyone had the opportunity to express their own opinions about the course and the organization, like transport, accommodation, length of day, teacher’s presentation… After that we moved on to Zone 3. In this zone is where we find the orchard where we only plant fruit and nut trees. Also, it [...]
“If you go to the vegetable garden and your slippers get wet is that your vegetable garden is too far” – Alessandro Ardovini quoting someone Today has been a hands-on experience day and the group enjoyed it! The first part was about the world climatic biozones. We had a little introduction about the physical aspects [...]