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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
I have a small suburban property an hour north of atlanta. I am using an old Apple Mac laptop. This Canadian app is not user friendly for my needs at all. Is there an alternative program I can use that my iPhone can use or this old laptop? How important is this step for my very small property? Im not enjoying this step. Please email me at [email protected]. Thanks
What exactly is a ridge as you describe it here on this map?
Phenomenal lesson! Been looking forward to getting this step done. Seems like a couple things may have changed since video recording. 1) I couldn’t download a map right from contourmapgenerator.com, I had to first create a free student account at https://vergepermaculture.ca/. 2) From here, you can purchase the generator for $20 which gives you 3 days access to the tool and unlimited downloads. In order to download files, it seems you have to use the tool from within your student dashboard. All the other instructions apply though the tool seems the same as Bret James describes it in the lesson. Figured I would share since I had to fiddle for a few minutes figuring it out (thought I was doing something wrong). Thanks Bret for the great lesson, I have 3.5 acres and it’s very rolling so it was looking forward to getting this step done! I chose to download a 2′ intervals for visualizing and 6′ intervals to draw with.
Thank you for clarifying this!
Hey Bret, it does appear to charge now, step #3 is no longer available. For my suburban property of less than a 1/4 acre is it necessary for me to have this on my design? There is one contour line that appears when setting the intervals at 2′, but hardly seems relevant to my project, just as Jane had mentioned above. We have just purchased a few acres down in Cripple Creek and this was very interesting to use on that site. However we are very unsure of the plans use for this property at this time.
{HHA Coach} Hi, Kindra! The exercise is there to get you thinking & it appears it’s done just that! 🙂 If not applicable to your specific site, then carry on with the next lesson. Enjoy!
Thanks Jesscy, I would like to use this for our site in Cripple Creek however it does not seem to match up…? The road doesn’t match the road in google earth. Have you run into this before? It almost seems to take turn and follow the CPW access road rather than the actual road. We also do not have an actual address yet, so maybe this is causing some confusion with the program.
Would it be possible for someone else to take at look at this property to give it a look and see if I am missing something? Thanks!
Hey Bret, I’ve followed the steps but I couldn’t get the program to zoom enough to see the boundaries of the property we’re renting. Also on google maps there are no boundary lines marked. The overlay with the contour lines didn’t even show on the screen. I would love to be able to do this exercise although is not our property but on SketchUp didn’t worked either…Is this going to be a problem to be able to do the following modules without the accurate information of the garden. The only thing it showed on the screen was a text box: Elevation: 20. Thanks in advance for your reply. Greetings from France, Rosmely
Hey Rosmely – If the software is not able to work for you then you might have to do a basemap by hand and guess. Google earth no longer shows property boundaries since they are not 100% accurate (only an actual survey is). What you can do is toggle google maps between the regular view, which does show “property boundaries” and the satellite view and get a sense of where they are close to. Also if your property is fenced, that will be the boundary that you will likely work with anyway. So, just proceed forward and sketch out a basemap by hand (others have had to this as well). Let me know if there are any more questions!
No use on my home property. Not more than 3 foot elevation change in my neighborhood by the beach. However it was useful on my hunting lease farther inland. Thanks Brett.
I just took a screenshot over the satellite image.
Hi Brett, I followed the steps, was able to generate the contour image but couldn’t save and overlay without purchasing a 3-day pass for $10. For my land its not important as its practically flat (at 3-feet I only had one contour line) but thought I would advise in case others find the same thing.
Thanks Jane for the heads up – it does appear that they now charge to get the contour data!