The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution - FREE EBOOK. P. A Yeomans. Keyline Farming 1955. Keyline Farming 1955. Water and me. And you. Water woz ere. A clearly hydrated landscape thanks to good hydrological design at Strathcona Community Garden, Vancouver Canada We’re all becoming acutely aware of the value of water. And so we should, as water’s role in our lives and in the planets’ cycles cannot really be understated. When designing and planning a Permaculture system, it’s top of the list – the order goes: Water, Access, Structure.
Design and sort out your water catchments and systems before you design anything else. Give them priority. Water is not an optional extra. So it’s very strange to consider that, in most temperate and dryland urban biospheres (and, god help us, many rural ones), water is not top of the list in terms of how living systems are designed, and therefore how our lives are led.
And if we do feel a tweak of guilt or responsibility, we can install a half-flush on our drinking-water grade toilet. From Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands Vol II by Brad Lancaster. Keyline Design - Mark IV Permaculture Research Institute. ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ – Building Soils, Harvesting Rainwater, Storing Carbon by Abe Collins & Darren Doherty Introduction Keyline Design was first developed by the great Australian, P.A. Yeomans (1904-1984), in the late 1940s & 50s initially as a practical response to the unpredictable rainfall regime he found on his new property, ‘Nevallan’, to the west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Soil Conservation, as developed by the US Army Corp of Engineers was the predominant practice of the time and for a time Yeomans was influenced by this, though soon found some deficiencies with the pattern of water flow its application expressed.
Influenced by the likes of prominent organic agriculture figures in Andre Voison, Friend Sykes, Newman Turner & Louis Bromfield (among many others!) The development of the Permaculture concept owes much to P.A. Click here to download as a PDF (574kb). Résultats Google Recherche d'images correspondant à. Homage to P.A. Yeomans. The Late Percival Alfred ("P.A.
") Yeomans A MAN BEFORE HIS TIME By ALLAN YEOMANS Percival Alfred Yeomans or "P.A" as he became known to all alike, changed Australian agriculture. It is doubtful that any man in this country's history has had such a profound influence on the thinking and methods used by the Australian agricultural community. He was from the country, but grew up in a town. His father, James Yeomans was a train driver, and close friend of our World War Two Prime Minister, Ben Chifley. When P.A. started farming he had already achieved considerable success in business. His ideas of collecting and storing large quantities of run off water on the farm itself for subsequent irrigation was virtually unheard of, and quite opposed to state soil conservation departments then, and by some even now. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die".
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