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Background articles

06January

House

05January

Water and making ponds

27June

My Permaculture Design Pathway

09May

Vision and Purpose 1.

08September

Karjalohja: the location and connecting to history

24January

60 degrees North, 23 East

The Site

05May

EVALUATION AND SITE ANALYSIS 4: THE MAIN ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS

14February

EVALUATION AND SITE ANALYSIS 3: PLANNING AREAS

02February

Evaluation and site analysis 2: Zones

13September

Evaluation and site analysis 1: Sectors

31July

Iso-orvokkiniitty: the site

Design Portfolio

24August

Design 1: Ponds at Iso-orvokkiniitty

22March

Design 6: Finnish Permaculture Association website

22December

Design 5: Plant database for Iso-orvokkiniitty

03May

Design 3: Caring for Bees

10February

Design 2: Energy at Iso-orvokkiniitty

Supporting documents

02January

Diploma Diary

02December

Erkki: Courses, workshops and study trips relevant to permaculture

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Design 1: Ponds at Iso-orvokkiniitty
Approved 16.9.2023 – No editing after that. 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 big and should be divided in smaller bits that are easier to manage. The largest part of the design is the Ponds at Iso-orvokkiniitty (this design). Other designs evolving from the original could be “Household water system at … Read more
Design 6: Finnish Permaculture Association website
Following Design 5, I am presenting also Design 6 as a video and Miro board. However in this case I want the length of the video to be reasonable (targeting 15 min but ending up with 25 min) which means that I am not going through the whole design in detail like in the Design 5 presentation. Roughly half of the video is about the design process and the other … Read more
Design 5: Plant database for Iso-orvokkiniitty
I am presenting my Design 5 as a video. I published the first 42 minutes version on 22.1.2023. Based on the discussions with my mentor I tweaked it into the 2nd version with more reflection about the design process and published it on 1.3.2023. The length of the video doubled but I am running it in YouTube at 15% extra speed so now it is just less than an hour. … Read more
Design 3: Caring for Bees
This is the third design in my Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design Portfolio. Again I published it before it was final – feel free to comment. First published 3.5.2022 (there will be an edit log in the end of the article). There are quite a few changes in content and structure after we went through the design with my tutor in June. My aim is to finalise the design in … Read more
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 to narrow down the scope from "Buildings and Energy systems" to "Energy at Iso-orvokkiniitty". Possible spin-offs (i.e. other designs) are "Water and … Read more
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 corrected obvious translation errors and done small updates but basically the text is as the original text. In the summer and autumn of 2013, the decision matured for us … Read more
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 designs about I am moving this to Background articles. I am starting to write this on 8.6.2021 as the first actual design in my Diploma … Read more
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: the sub-designs The Permaculture Pathway Background I have done my PDC course in France at Le Ferme du Bec Hellouine in August and September 2014. I have reported about the course in Finnish in our blog … Read more
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 ideas or wishes they might have. We made a mind-map together which you can see on the right. The mind-map consists mainly … Read more
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 5.5.2021 but I am pretty sure I will come back to it for editing. In the previous … Read more
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 perspective: what are the different planning areas we should look at either as a part of the master design … Read 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 our site rather than what natural forces are at play. Still describing zones in a site is in the first stage about observation … Read more
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. the historical background of the place and region. In this third article I am still in observation mode with sectors and after that will follow zones. … Read more
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 described our natural geographic situation so it would be easier for the reader to understand where we are from a natural, geographic and … Read more
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 for it to jump up on social media. I am writing it backwards so if you want … Read more
Karjalohja: the location and connecting to history
Karjalohja 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 Helsinki and Turku. From Iso-orvokkiniitty it is 70 minutes drive to Helsinki. The closest town and the municipality to which Karjalohja belongs is Lohja to the east which has a population of 47000. The former Karjalohja municipality (merged to Lohja in 2013) has roughly 1500 inhabitants … Read more
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, other places that are roughly at 60° North are Stockholm (59°), Oslo (59°), St Petersburg (60°) and Anchorage (61°). However if you would travel around the world on the 60° latitude … Read more
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 2015 2016 2017 2018 Andreas Jonsson’s Site based design of his smallholder farm in Skåne, Sweden. <= 22.4. & 28.4.2018 Shiitake inoculation workshops at Iso-orvokkiniitty with Erkki. <= 6.5.2018: Mehiläisempää mehiläishoitoa ylälistapesillä -kurssi (Course on Beecentric Beekeeping with Top-Bar Hives) at Karjalohja Village House “Kehrä” with Erkki (7 participants). => 19.5.2018 … Read more

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