Geoff reading the landscape during a course in Hungary. To learn more about permaculture, watch Geoff's free Masterclass: www.discoverpe....
Geoff distinguishes between temperate, cold, and dry landscape profiles in this video while explaining how to find a keypoint. Understanding the location of a keypoint on a slope is crucial for building efficient dams and water catchments on a permaculture site. This point marks the highest potential for water storage in a valley, which can be used for harvesting, spreading, soaking, and irrigating.
Key Takeaways
- When working on a permaculture site, it's crucial to differentiate between various landscape profiles like temperate, cold, and dry.
- Valleys have ridges on both sides and a keypoint where water can be held. Locating the keypoint on the slope is crucial for building effective dams and catchments.
- The keypoint represents the maximum potential for water storage in a valley, which can be utilized for harvesting, spreading, soaking, and irrigating.
- P.A. Yeomans developed keyline farming in the 1940s, which utilizes the keypoint for water management.
- Various landscapes like volcanic, flatlands, coasts, and wetlands possess unique characteristics.
- Understanding different landscape profiles can help us become better designers.
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Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher that has established demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world's major climates. Geoff has dedicated his life to spreading permaculture design across the globe and inspiring people to take care of the earth, each other and to return the surplus.
About Permaculture:
Permaculture integrates land, resources, people, and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies - imitating the no-waste, closed-loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Permaculture applies holistic solutions that are applicable in rural and urban contexts and at any scale. It is a multidisciplinary toolbox including agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development.
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