design portfolio
Design 9: Designing myself into NPA
Design 9 is about designing myself into the Nordic Permaculture Academy. The design is a NPA internal document so I am not publishing the whole design here. I am including the content and indicating where parts of the design are missing. So it might be difficult to...
Design 8: Iso Potkästi
Design 8: Iso Potkästi (podcast) / READY 2025-02-24 This is the Design Web illustration Design 8 - revised DW 2025-02-02.png I talk through it in the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/zoWHU5C0L98 LINK to Iso-Potkästi
Design 7: Kannuksen valmistuminen – The Drum
I started the Drum design on winter solstice 21.12.2023 when I lit the first fire at our ’megalithic circle’ and decided to make a drum and create it as a design in my Diploma portfolio. This was while many others were rushing around shopping malls preparing to...
Design 6: Ducks
Diploma apprentice’s nameErkki PöytäniemiDate Apprentice started DiplomaMay 2021Project TitleDesign 6 – DucksDesign Number6/10Date Design Started2024-08-12Date Design Completed2024-10-21 / 2024-11-12Has the Design been implemented?yesOnline Link to Design (if...
Design 5 – Mushroom cultivation at Iso-orvokkiniitty
Diploma apprentice's nameErkki PöytäniemiDate Apprentice started Diploma2017 / May 2021 in NPAProject TitleDesign 5 - Mushroom cultivation at Iso-orvokkiniittyDesign Number5/10Date Design Started2024-03-15 (2015)Date Design Completed2024-10-17 / 2025-03-17 after 2nd...
Design 4.2: Forest Garden
Diploma apprentice's nameErkki PöytäniemiDate Apprentice started DiplomaMay 2021Project TitleDesign 4 - Forest GardenDesign Number4/10Date Design Started2015Date Design Completed2024-03-31Has the Design been implemented?yesOnline Link to Design (if available)Design...
Design 1: Ponds at Iso-orvokkiniitty
Approved 16.9.2023 - No editing after that. 15.3.2025 - Tweaks after 2nd mentors assessment: Brief, Contour map, Reflection on Learnings. This design was started in June 2021 as "Water and Making Ponds". After reviewing it in June 2023 I decided that the design is too...
Design 3: Caring for Bees
This is the third design in my Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design Portfolio. I started writing it in early 2022 and first published it 3.5.2022. The second version was published in spring 2023 and the final in October 2023. APPROVED 16.11.2023 (no edits after...
Design 2: Energy at Iso-orvokkiniitty
I first published this article on 10.2.2022 but as usual it was not final. I had written the Vision, Needs and Observations of the current situation, evaluated how it works and possibilities to tweak. I came back to the design in September 2023. Now I decided I need...
the site
EVALUATION AND SITE ANALYSIS 4: THE MAIN ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS
Prelude This article will be a little different because I think I need to tell what I planned to do and started doing but didn't finalise. Maybe this chapter is not really a part of the design but it is a part of my design path. Anyway I am publishing it now on...
EVALUATION AND SITE ANALYSIS 3: PLANNING AREAS
If you have read through the previous 3 articles about the site (see above) and 60 DEGREES NORTH, 23 EAST you should have a pretty good picture of where we are and what has happened so far (until January 2021). In this article I will analyse the site from one more...
Evaluation and site analysis 2: Zones
In most cases you will see that zones come before sectors in permaculture design. I felt more comfortable doing it the other way round as sectors are purely observations and zones already include an element of design and they relate directly to what we are doing in...
Evaluation and site analysis 1: Sectors
In my first PD article I described our natural geographic situation so it would be easier for the reader to understand where we are, from a natural, geographic and climatic point of view. In the second article I tried to describe ”where we came from” i.e....
Iso-orvokkiniitty: the site
This article is part of Erkki's Permaculture Diploma Portfolio. Part of it was written already in 2015 when I first started writing our permaculture design. Of course a lot has happened after that and I have updated it to today's situation. In my first PD article I...
background articles
Our Needs
I originally wrote this chapter as a part of Design 2: Energy at Iso-orvokkiniitty, which originally was broader than just energy. Therefore the Needs chapter was broader than what is necessary for just looking at the Energy. So not loose that text I am putting it...
House
I published this article first in Finnish on iso-orvokkiniitty.fi on 4.1.2021. Here I used Google Translate for translation which worked surprisingly well (you could actually use Google translate to read our Finnish articles and mostly make sense of them). I have...
Water and making ponds
24.8.2023: I decided that the "Water and Making Ponds" is too wide in scope and therefore difficult to structure in a sensible way. I am making a revised design just about the ponds: Design 1: Ponds at Iso-orvokkiniitty. That opens the possibility to make separate...
My Permaculture Design Pathway
My path to the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design (DPA) Content Background The Design Framework Vision My Permaculture Design Matrix Yeomans’ Keyline Scale of Permanence Planetary Boundaries Permaculture Ethics Permaculture Design Principles The way forward:...
Vision and Purpose 1.
Family meeting in 2014 (post first written 11.6.2021) In March 2014 we gathered together at our home in Espoo with our kids. We had found Iso-orvokkiniitty in February and had decided to buy it if possible. We wanted to know what our children thought about it and what...
Karjalohja: the location and connecting to history
Karjalohja The map of Karjalohja ex-municipality is still in front of the old "kunnantalo" municipal house. Karjalohja, where Iso-orvokkiniitty is located, is situated in the western Uusimaa region 85 km west of Helsinki, south of the main E18 motorway between...
60 degrees North, 23 East
Our coordinates at Iso-orvokkiniitty in Karjalohja are lat 60° 13.985' lon 23° 41.966’. So we are in South-West Finland 85 km west from Helsinki. 60° North is pretty north if you look at the world map. Apart from Helsinki and southern Finland,...
supporting documents
Diploma Diary
I am keeping this diary - which I started on 12.1.2020 - as a web-site page instead of a blog posting. It is open for anyone to read if interested in my Permaculture Diploma path. As such it is an appendix to my DPA Mainpage and quite "deep" in the web-site. No need...
Erkki: Courses, workshops and study trips relevant to permaculture
=> Courses, workshops, visits attended = receiving <= Courses, workshops, visits given = sharing ("with Erkki" means he was the main teacher) 2014 => I have done my PDC in France at Le Ferme du Bec Hellouine in August and September 2014. I have...