permaculture

["Myk Rushton" <permaculture@wave.co.nz>]

Greetings

Looking back at a copy of Carl's original design notes (which he did as
mindmaps) for zones he describes zones as follows:

Zone 0 - home -most energy expenditure - work station - fuel consumption
Zone 1 - daily visits or more - intensive use - workshop - herbs, cut and
come, pond
Zone 2 - weekly visits - maincrop veg - orchards - ponds
Zone 3 - monthly visits - pasture - grazing - serious maincrops/grains
Zone 4 - rare visits - managed woodland - nut - coppice - timber
Zone 5 - wilderness - university of life
(Zone 6 - untouched - never visited - zone 00 - people)

The brackets are Carls, perhaps indicating that he realised that it did not
quite fit in with the established paradigm for zones. Was it was something
in development?

Zone 00 is covered by a separate mindmap entitled Positive Thinking.

I agree with you Toby that the addition of other zones beyond the 0-5 is
confusing to people who are being explained the concept for the first time.
Also as Loren says the original concept of zone/zoning etc has moved on from
just being a design tool for the positioning of elements within a permanent
agricultural system and is now also used by many as a metaphor for many
other things within a permanent culture. Perhaps it also highlights the
difference between the original rural application of Pc and the later urban
application?

Myk
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