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Holistic Goal Planning
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Site Observation (PT 1)
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Site Observation (PT 2)
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Basemapping
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Filed Map & Sector Analysis
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Land Analysis Layers & Zones
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Site Elements & Connections
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Rough Site Design
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Design Concepts & GIS
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Professional Permaculture Pt 1
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Professional Permaculture Pt 2
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Final (working) Design & Implementation
Maybe you cover this in the practical app section, but what categories or types of thing do you record?
In addition to the things you mentioned like the trees flowering, frost dates, plants/grasses.
{HHA Coach} The diary mentioned is simply a tool to be able to record any/all observations in your garden. There is no set in stone subject matter that you have to follow, just whatever you’d like to keep track of.
Fortunately I had just bought a gardening diary before this course started.
tell me more about this gardening diary. Is it a diary that you intended to use for your garden or is it a guided diary?
I would be curious to see some of your shorthand/abbreviations and organization/layout of notes, even what types of data your collecting. I have never been good at keeping diaries or journals, and always had a hard time taking notes in school. I rely on my memory for so much that I can definitely see how keeping a notebook would be beneficial. It’s just that I either forget to take notes, or when I put the pen in my hand I completely forget what I want to write.
I love journaling, I’m excited about this part 🙂 I will probably use a notebook that’s already a calendar and use a new one every year so it’s easy to see the dates, i like the idea of looking for patterns. I also keep an online journal where I ask myself hte same questions every day. Been doing it for 3 years and it’s come in handy so many times — also helps me see how far i’ve come and which issues keep arising. Maybe I will start an electronic one for my land.
My daughter and i share a love for notebooks & we seem to have notebooks for EVERYTHING. Budgets & grocery lists, devotional & prayers, sermon notes, recipes, doodles & sketches, one for this class & planting charts, and a few abandoned ones that will probably find new life as an observation notebook lol. If I dont write things down, it’s just gone and i probably won’t remember. I’m a little ADD and writing things down definitely helps me focus & stay on track. On some levels i depend on notes/notebooks to function so i love this suggestion
I too have notebooks everywhere! I have really loved making observation maps…something a friend who has her PDC suggested that I do. I think for me, as a visual learner, it is easier if I have a map of each thing I am observing, and every time I observe something new in that area I can add it to my map. I may have several maps for just water, for example, but then the observation is attached to a place where I observed it.
could also be fun to do a map just for sit spot locations, and just devote 15 minutes of time to each small bubble, 10 feet radius of my yard. I guess you could also do that with a farm or homestead site, just would take years and years to fully fill in all the areas on your land with a 15 minute sit spot observation.
I love this right now, as we are staying home because of the virus. I am taking time to learn about each part of my yard, front and back and see what it has to tell me before I try to tell it what I think it should be.
As Christopher said, I have lots of books for different interests/hobbies. Although I really get the purpose of this. Do you have a book for each year?
Patrick – I just use one notebook until it gets full, as I find that even in a year it’s hard to fill one up.
My problem is too many notebooks! I have notes for this class, one for recipes, one for business ideas, other ideas, meditations, etc.
but something small I can carry with me when I am on my property should be easy enough to manage.
Christoper – at least it’s one of those good problems 🙂
something I really need to work on as I have never been any good with diaries..both my parents always kept notes on the garden etc.