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- 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… Read more: Design 9: Designing myself into NPA - Design 8: Iso Potkästi
Design 8: Iso Potkästi (podcast) / READY 2025-02-24 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… Read more: Design 7: Kannuksen valmistuminen – The Drum - Design 6: Ducks
Diploma apprentice’s name Erkki Pöytäniemi Date Apprentice started Diploma May 2021 Project Title Design 6 – Ducks Design Number 6/10 Date Design Started 2024-08-12 Date Design Completed 2024-10-21 / 2024-11-12 Has the Design been implemented? yes Online Link to Design… Read more: Design 6: Ducks - Design 5 – Mushroom cultivation at Iso-orvokkiniitty
Diploma apprentice’s name Erkki Pöytäniemi Date Apprentice started Diploma 2017 / May 2021 in NPA Project Title Design 5 – Mushroom cultivation at Iso-orvokkiniitty Design Number 5/10 Date Design Started 2024-03-15 (2015) Date Design Completed 2024-10-17 / 2025-03-17 after 2nd… Read more: Design 5 – Mushroom cultivation at Iso-orvokkiniitty - Design 4.2: Forest Garden
Diploma apprentice’s name Erkki Pöytäniemi Date Apprentice started Diploma May 2021 Project Title Design 4 – Forest Garden Design Number 4/10 Date Design Started 2015 Date Design Completed 2024-03-31 Has the Design been implemented? yes Online Link to Design (if… Read more: Design 4.2: Forest Garden - 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… Read more: Our Needs - 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… Read more: Design 1: Ponds at Iso-orvokkiniitty - 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… Read more: Design 3: Caring for Bees - 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… Read more: Design 2: Energy at Iso-orvokkiniitty - 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… Read more: House - 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… Read more: Water and making ponds - (Design 4): Forest GardenForest Garden with focus on PA-8 UNDER HEAVY CONSTRUCTION (2023-11-05) I started this design on 11.7.2021. The main reason was that some decisions about maintaining and developing our forest garden needed to be made. The general ideas of agroforestry, forest… Read more: (Design 4): Forest Garden
- My Permaculture Design Pathway
My path to the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design (DPA) Content 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… Read more: My Permaculture Design Pathway - 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… Read more: Vision and Purpose 1. - 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… Read more: EVALUATION AND SITE ANALYSIS 4: THE MAIN ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS - 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).… Read more: EVALUATION AND SITE ANALYSIS 3: PLANNING AREAS - 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… Read more: Evaluation and site analysis 2: Zones - 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… Read more: Evaluation and site analysis 1: Sectors - 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… Read more: Iso-orvokkiniitty: the site - 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… Read more: Diploma Diary