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1. Permaculture Design
for SF Residential
Landscapes
Kevin Bayuk
Prepared for
SF Green Building Professionals Guild
May 2010

2. Clifford Harper

4. So What is Permaculture?
PEOPLE PLANET
CARE CARE
SHARE the SURPLUS

5. Permaculture History and
Definitions

7. Catch & Store Energy

8. Use and Value Renewable
Resources & Services

9. Integrated Rather Than
Segregate

10. Value Edges and the Marginal

11. 5 Urban Applications of
Permaculture Principles
 Trees or vegetation for shade and windbreak
 Kitchen, Kitchen, Kitchen
 Landscape access pathways on contour
 Polyculture
 Support species
 Physical Habitat

13. Focus on the Kitchen

14. Contour

15. Polyculture

18. Help grow food
 Sheet mulching
 Divert cardboard and “construction waste” into
landscape
 Raised beds on contour
 Perennial veggies, backyard orchard culture
 Compost on site
 Vermi-composting and pile
 Living fences

28. Favorite Perennial Vegetables
 Tree Collards  Perpetual
 Scarlet Runner Spinach
Beans  Scorzonera
 Nine Star Broccoli hispanica
 Daylily
 Viola odorata - Sh
 Artichoke or
 Perennial Arugula - Cardoon
FS  Asparagus - FS
 French Sorrel  Pepino Dulce
 Nettles  Tilia cordata
 Chayote - FS

33. Fruit Trees
 Almonds  Mulberry
 Apples  Nectarine
 Apricots  Olives
 Asian Pears  Peach
 Avocado  Pear
 Cherry  Pineapple Guava
 Citrus  Plum
 Fig  Pluots
 Kiwi  Persimmon
 Loquat  Pomegranate

34. Cultivars
http://www.urbanpermacultureinstitute.
com/ployculture-guilds.html

35. Favorites
 Apple  Loquat
 Gordon, Fuji  Benlehr,
 Apricot Advance
 Katy, Gold Kist  Pear
 Cherry  Seckel
 Minnie Royal,  Pineapple Guava
Royal Lee,  Plum
Amarillo (Sour)  Methley, Valor,
 Citrus Beauty,
 Meyer Improved Weeping Santa
Rosa
 Fig
 Desert King,
 Pluots
Osborne Prolific

37. Favorite
PLUMS!

38. Backyard Orchard Culture

39. Belgian Fence

40. Compost Systems

41. Reduce Water Use
Rainwater harvesting
Greywater
Mulching
Perennial vegetation
Sidewalk landscaping

42. Rainwater Harvesting
System for House in Oregon

45. Rain Garden

46. Total
Greywater=
59%
Source: USEPA 1992

47. Art Ludwig

48. Art Ludwig

50. Jane Martin

51. Visioning- Kitchen Garden
 What does your client eat?
 What would your client like
to eat?
 Brainstorm actual meals…

52. Soft Fruit & Groundcover
 Raspberries
 Cape Gooseberry - PSh
 Blackberries - Sh
 Evergreen Huckleberries - Sh
 Ugni - PSh
 Thimbleberry - Sh
 Eleagnus - PSh
 Currants - Sh
 Strawberries - PSh

53. Rare Fruit?
 Fuschia - Sh
 F. splendens
 Tamarillo
 Strawberry Guava
 Opuntia sp.
 Babaco - PSh
 Passiflora mollissima
 Arbutus unedo - PSh

54. Favorite Herbs
 Anise Hyssop  Sage
 Borage  Salad Burnet
 Calendula  Thyme
 Chamomile  Valerian
 Lemon Balm  Yarrow
 Nasturtium -PSh  Yerba Buena - PSh
 Rosemary  Miner’s Lettuce - PSh
 Lemon Verbena  Chives

55. Root Crops
 Oca
 Yacon
 Mashua
 Potato onions
 Sunchoke - PSh
 Canna edulis - PSh

56. Support Functions
 Nitrogen fixer
 Dynamic accumulator
 Ground cover
 Pest suppression/confusion
 Insectary
 Climber
 Trellis for climber
 Windbreaks/shelter

57. Some Support Species
 Nitrogen fixer
 Clovers
 Eleagnus - PSh
 Acacia
 Fava beans - PSh
 Vetch
 Alfalfa
 Dynamic accumulator
 Comfrey
 Nettles - PSh
 Yarrow
 Borage
 Chicory - PSh
 Dandelion

58. Some Support Species
 Ground cover
 Alyssum
 Clover
 Yarrow
 Mint - Sh
 Strawberries - PSh
 Pest suppression/confusion
 Alliums
 Most herbs
 Marigolds

59. Some Support Species
 Insectary
 Alyssum
 Clover
 Comfrey
 Fennel
 Linden
 Windbreaks/shelter
 Sunchoke - PSh
 Fig
 Loquat
 Mulberry - PSh
 Acacia
 Eleagnus - PSh

61. Resources and Further Info
 ROI
 Design and Installation help
 Upcycle - David Cody -
david@upcyclegroup.com
 SF Landscapes -
http://www.sflandscapes.com/
 SF Permaculture Guild
 www.permacultrue-sf.org
 Classes at UPI, UC BEX, EAT

62. kevin@uas.coop
http://www.permaculture-sf.org/urban-pdc.html
Summer PDC
starting June 16th