1. Gardening Builds Sustainable Community Jonathan Betz-Zall Highline Community College Science Seminar April 4, 2008

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4. General Principles: Ethics  Earth care,  people care,  fair share.

5. General Principles: Practices  Work with nature, not against it: use it as a teacher.  * Everything in nature 'gardens' - for example, deer in a forest cultivate edible shoots by 'pruning' them back.  * Minimum effort for maximum output - perfected, apparently, by a 'do-nothing' farmer in Japan.  * The problem is the solution - for example, thistles on grazing land, which livestock don't eat, benefit the fertility and condition of the soil.  * There's no theoretical limit to yield - only the imagination of the designer.  * Multiple elements and multiple functions - something as simple as a greenhouse is useful not just for propagating plants: it extends the growing season, collects rainfall from the roof, reflects sunlight...

6. Observe and Interact

7. Catch and Store Energy

8. Obtain a Yield

9. Use and value renewable resources and services, e.g. Soil!

10. Produce No Waste

11. Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback

12. Design from Patterns to Details

13. Integrate, Don’t Segregate

14. Use Small & Slow Solutions

15. Use & Value Diversity

16. Use Edges, Value Margins

17. Creatively Use & Respond to Change

18. Applications

19. Zoning

20. Forest Woodland Gardening

21. No Dig Gardening

22. Layering

23. Increasing Edge

24. Perennial Plants

25. Polyculture/Guilds/ Companion Planting

26. More Information:  http://flightline.highline.edu/jbetzzall/ http://flightline.highline.edu/jbetzzall/  http://ecolibrarian.org/environmental- information-resources/permaculture/ http://ecolibrarian.org/environmental- information-resources/permaculture/ http://ecolibrarian.org/environmental- information-resources/permaculture/  http://ecolibrarian.org/environmental- information-resources/living-green-web- resources/ http://ecolibrarian.org/environmental- information-resources/living-green-web- resources/ http://ecolibrarian.org/environmental- information-resources/living-green-web- resources/  And your friendly Librarian!