1. Mobile Permaculture Project

2. now solutions future solutions

3. Base Map
Rucksack
• holds up to 5 elements
• small scale demonstrations
• focused speeches
20 gal. trunk
• holds up to 10 elements
• use in regular booth situations 10' x 10' area
• serves as storage for elements transported by
bckpack

4. VISION/GOALS
GOAL
Have demonstration elements of permaculture that can be carried in many different ways
by different people. It must be mobile, best case scenario, by bike, reserving fossil fuels.
It will have collapsible elements for ease of packing and setting up. Some elements will be
scaled down versions of live elements.
VISION
I wanted to have a simple way to get the elements around and an easy way to store it. I
believe that the water tight trunk is optimum for storage that is easy to move around.
Instead of having live elements as in an initial plan heaviness is limited to the recycled
materials stored in the box itself. I wanted to include elements that were interactive and
informative.

5. SITE
ANALYSIS
• school/classroom • regular even booth, 10' x
• small theater speaking 10' square
• fold out table • fold out table
• mainly for transport, not • stores more including
storage backpack
IT DEPENDS ON...
• space available to present
• time available
• the topic of focus
• the type of interaction with groups

6. UNKNOWNS/QUESTIONS
When? Festivals, fairs, speeches, training/workshops
Where? Anywhere you can carry it
Why? Education
What? Principles of Permaculture
Who? Permaculture Guild

7. Possible Back Pack ELEMENTS
• green map
• tri-fold pamphlets
• soil test kit
• seed bombs/making kit
• solar cell example
• rocket stove
• watershed sculpture
• worm bin
---using recycled material to defer costs

8. More on Carts

9. pioneers of mobile units:
There are a number of inspirational, historical contexts for this kind of
piece. Krzysztof Wodiczko's (MIT professor) nomadic design series is
one. Another is by Paul Elkins. The following is a short list of the array
of designs already at play in the fields of art, design, architecture,
ecology, and their hybrids:
•eco shelter
•shelter website
•2modern
•origami homeless shelter
•Krzysztof Wodiczko'
•Paul Elkins

10. Manufactured Trailer, <$350

11. container/ transport element:
cart
www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle-cargo-
trailer--200-lb-capacity,-$30-for-pa/
www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Bicycle-Cargo-
Trailer
www.bikecart.pedalpeople.com/
www.carryfreedom.com/bamboo.html

12. container/ transport element:
bamboo cart
we have included instructions for a bamboo bike cart. this cart could
be modified so that it is also a push- cart, thus making it more flexible
in use.
*bamboo is ideal because
basic bamboo cart it can be reused, it is
many of these items can
holds about 200 lbs. renewable, readily
be procured from builders
according to the designer available, and NOT a
resource. bike wheels:
nick lobnitz. smaller is petroleum product!*
$10.
stronger

13. container/ transport element:
bamboo cart
★various configurations of the cart can
demonstrate various permaculture principles,
such as zone, sector and pattern.

14. container/ transport element:
bamboo cart
(this is a variation
of the bamboo
cart)

16. container/ transport element:
cart
★flexible sector utilization is essential. Since
the mobile unit might be experiencing sun, wind
and shade from any given direction, the unit
needs to be able to respond in any number of
configurations to the energies flowing into the
unit.
★SECTORS:
★motion, varying speeds
★attention
★exhaust
★light and dark

17. (sector demo)

18. there are the zones within the cart itself (1),
but also the cart is situated within the larger
zonation of the user’s life (3 or 4)
the cart will likely be stored in a storage
space (zone 3 or 4), so the various elements,
when not in use for the event, will need to be
zoned accordingly.

19. (how the cart
might demo
pattern)

20. We would like now to highlight some key
elements for your display.
Our choice of elements was based on
size, modularity, educational value, and
ability to respond to unique sectors of
mobility.
educational demo workshop
takeaways elements elements

21. Educational Takeaways
• San Francisco Green Map
• Permaculture Guild Three Fold Pamphlet
- List of plants that will grow in SF micro-
climates
- Introduction to Hayes Valley Farm
• Display Boards

22. Map lists
community
gardens,
green
businesses,
organic
markets, etc.
in SF

23. The Green Map
Was created in 2007 and is currently being
revised for a new print/ circulation. Last time,
3300 maps were donated to local schools,
teachers, libraries & universities. 550 were
sold through stores like Modern Times Books
and Real Foods. The map is sponsored by local
green & sustainable businesses.
Contact info available upon request.
Also, check out: www.sfgreenmap.org

24. 3-Fold Informational Pamphlet Front/back

25. Internal fold out pamphlet
Costs $.75 per copy > 500
Costs $.39 per copy < 501
www.jensens-sf.com

26. display board

27. Demo Elements
• worm bin
• topo-map
• water-catchment
• compost tea
• alternative- energy sources
• fog catcher (demo demo)

28. Solar Chargers
**Small Android
**Briefcase Laptop Charger
o Can be used to power laptop at the booth
o Laptop will also house interactive teaching materials

29. Mobile Solar Charger
Solar charger
for cell phones,
MP3 & MP4
player, digital
cameras
$18.00
https://solarstylemiami.com

30. 15 watt Solar Laptop Charger
version,
$262
22 watt
version,
$386
Really, what is an
educational booth
without access to
all the amazing
info we’ve been
experiencing in
this class???
http://www.treehugger.com

31. Worm Bin—every permie booth
needs one
Ken will donate
starter worms!!
Will also need:
• Newspaper
• Either a wooden
wine box or re-
used clear
Tupperware
container
• Lots of food
scraps
• Some H2O
• A place to keep
them between
shows (HVF?)

32. topo-map

33. demo element:
water catchment
approx 1 1/2’
approx 3’

34. demo element:
water catchment
the water catchment element catches water from the topographic map
and pipes it to a bucket for a compost tea demo, a bottle for UV
disinfectant demo, to thirsty plants underneath or a bladder for future
use.
• plastic tray with holes (topo map
fits on top)
can use
• pipe channeling water from tray
bamboo
• legs (sliding PVC pipes 1.5” & 1”)
instead of
• option 1: bladder/s
PVC!
• option 2: 5 gal bucket
• option 3: plants
* many of these elements
are available at builder’s
collection & assembly
resources for around $1.00 time:
5L bladder: $25.00 estimated 4-6 hrs

35. demo element:
workshop element:
seed bombs
compost tea

36. demo element:
workshop element:
seed bombs compost tea
the compost tea demo can pump water from the
water catchment. this demo can teach about
oxygenation, soil building, and beneficial
bacteria. *the tea pump
could optionally
• solar panel pump water back
• piping over the
• 5 gal bucket topographic map,
that shows the San
• pump
Francisco
• power source from a solar panel or bike battery watersheds*
• compost
solar fountain kit: collection & assembly note that unless this is a
$50.00 or solar panel for time: multi-day event, tea demo
5 watt pump: $50.00 estimated 1/2-1 hrs is demo only

37. Workshop Elements
• seed bombs
• soil test kit

38. workshop element:
workshop element:
seed bombs
seed bombs

39. workshop element:
workshop element:
seed bombsseed bombs
a seed bomb workshop provides a hands-on activity that
could teach:
• principles of guilds possible guilds:
• layers of a food forest red clover, peas,
• principles of soil mustard
• about phyto-remediation OR
• principles of micoryzzal fungi chamomile comfrey
hops
• integrate with worm compost demo OR
use water from catchment demo, sunflowers comfrey
burdock
& use clay from soil test demo
compost, castings, clay: $0
collection & assembly
seed packs $2-3.00 ea. workshop time:
micoryzzal fungi, granular: time:
estimated 1/2 -1 hrs
$40.00 estimated 2-3 hrs

40. workshop element:
workshop element:
seed bombs
soil test kit

41. workshop & demo elements:
workshop element:
seed bombs
more ideas
here are some more ideas.
• homemade still
• infiltration test
• mini greenhouse
• natural fertilizer
• small rocket stove
• 5 gal biogas digester
• micoremediation
• solar stove

42. demo & workshop elements:
putting it together

44. Base Map, 10 x 10 Booth at EcoFaire or other street festival
the base map could be
the city, the station,
and the container...

48. container/ transport element:
long term cart goals & vision
★we see an opportunity for mobile
permaculture units to connect nomadic,
homeless, or otherwise mobile populations to
larger urban gardens throughout the city of San
Francisco.
★these units might provide special functions
such as collecting compost & rainwater, starting
seeds, or bringing other resources from one
spot to another.
★it is a connecting element between a variety
of locations, also holding many elements within
itself.

49. unknowns & questions
★can you make a cart that has a topo map and a
table built in?
★specs for each event
★optimal materials for
building?
★layout of festival, weather, & variable sectors
would determine layout of elements at site
★weight and sizes are variable

50. backpack budget
possible guilds: red
clover, peas, mustard approx
OR chamomile 3.00 per
for seed bomb comfrey hops OR
workshop and to sunflowers comfrey seed ? need to ask david about seed
seeds explain guilds burdock packet sources
further discussion
to add to seed about function of
mycorrizal fungi boms fungi in soil 40 www.gyosf.com
may use tupperware
wooden with type containers to
plexiglass start or a wooden
panels, size of a wine box. Ken will
worm bin shoe box donate the worms >$30 re-used materials, donated worms
map of gardens Have one and will
& green gather more from
green map companies in SF friends at VV 0
under
$30,
including
solar charger- S&H and
alternative charges phones, ipods,
small energy demo blackberries kit
(provided you already have a
backpack) totalling $109

51. trunk/ cart budget
solar $262 (15
watt)- http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/7-
charger alternative charges $386 (22 portable-solar-laptop-chargers-worth-
laptop energy demo laptops watt) considering.php
rocket
stove/ cooking re-used material, Building REsource, elbows
elbow demo energy food $4 already assembled, sheetmetal
demo
fog water water re-used material, Buildering REsource, pvc
catcher cachment collection $4 piping $2, screen materil $2
3D
Watershed
example of made of
map watershed plywood 0 builders resource
Perm
Kit...storage
for element totalling $48- $434
20g for demo.
watertight immediate it's a now
with back pack $157- $543
trunk solution solution $40 Container Store

52. future cart budget
Croozer manufactured; plan B to bamboo DIY,
http://
www.biketrailershop.com/
Trailer transport plan A $319 croozer-cargo-trailers-
c-200.html
materials for
homemade cart @ $30 bulder’s resource, etc.
to demo how to
compost add nutrient to two options -- there is a pump kit, or
http://www.siliconsolar.com/
aquajet-solar-fountain-kit-
tea kit garden option to purchase items individually. $50 aluminum-frame-
p-500952.html
5 watt
solar for compost tea this is presuming the pump owned by http://www.amazon.com/CDT-
panel kit guild is low wattage $50 CDT-5w-watt-Solar-Panel/dp/
B000NP349G
mini <
windmill can build $? $100 www.gotwind.org/diy/12-inch-
mini-turbine.htm
$25
http://
www.sportsmansguide.com/
water net/cb/2-New-Swiss-
for catchment + Military-5-liter-Water-
bladder demo 5L shipping
Bladders-Black.aspx?
a=561576&kwtid=308287
for catchment
1-2 buckets demo 5 gal ?
independent of backpack & now solution totalling $155- $585

53. now solution timeline

54. overlapping non-linear timeline/s
building of future cart many options
bamboo cart
will you grow bamboo?
1-2 years to grow your own bamboo
1 week to assemble materials
1 -3 months to build and test