All the hidden names in the Permaculture Playing Cards!

Says I was given access to this through my kickstar purchase, but I don't see a way to download it..

This one's actually not a download. It just shows up as text font in the first post now that you have access to it.

But, it might not have been obvious, so I tried to make it a little easier to post.

Check for the words above that say "Below are all the cards which have hidden names, and which hidden names to look for!"

I'll make a word document with the same information and attach that, too, in case that helps people.

Hello Permies,
I just got a set of the cards and am reading through them.  I came across one that I do not understand and wonder if someone could explain what the one talking about the soil going perpendicular to the sun means.  I don't understand the red lines that are humped over the green areas.  Are the red lines where the earth is piled up against the sun/blocking the rays of the sun?  It looks like dirt piled up like waves coming in from the ocean. That doesn't really make sense but I can't make sense of the drawing. Why are the red lines only on one side of the greenery?  Please help me get the right perspective on this.  I got excited when reading that it makes it possible to grow lemon trees in Montana.  I want to duplicate this in my yard and keep my lemon trees alive too!  thanks in advance!

Is it the Five of Diamonds? I found this thread all about it!

https://permies.com/t/berms

And if you run across the TEFA card, here's a handy thread for that, too https://permies.com/t/16894/tefa

I hope that helps!

Thank you Nicole, that is helpful.  It is the tefa idea I was confused about. Still triyng to decide how to implement it in a simple way without having to build or move dirt.

I went and found a picture of the TEFA card.

Red = warmth. So, the areas that are hottest, are those getting direct sunlight. So, if you happen to live on the equator, the hottest place will be flat ground. But, for most of the northern hemisphere, the hottest is going to be the southern slope, because the sun is in the southern sky.  That's why in the picture, the red is thicker on the slope facing the sun--because the sun is warming it up!

Diagonal lines through the sky=the direction of the sunlight. Since for most of the year in most of the northern hemisphere, the sun is not straight above us (you wouldn't see any shadows if it was!), then the direction of the sunlight is at an angle

Green Humps/"Waves" = berms or hugelkulture beds. This is bumpy ground. The side of the bumpy ground that faces the sun is hotter, and the side facing away from the sun is cooler.

So, in the case of Paul's lemon tree, it's placed in the middle of a "sun scoop." The mounds of dirt surrounding it capture and holds in the heat, and kind of reflects it back, making a nice warm microclimate. The lemon tree isn't planted on the mound of dirt, but in front of it.

Other ways to do this are to plant the tree in front of a wall, or to build a wall behind it like they did a century+ ago (see this article: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-greenhouse.html). I also noticed that just planting something in front of a hedge seems to help make a warmer microclimate for the plant.

You could also make a dry-stack wall behind it to shelter it when it's small, like this



Lots more pictures of people making these little walls in the Dry Stack Wall badge bit

Oh thank you Nicole, it makes so much more sense now.  I can understand the drawing as you explained it - it makes sense.  Has the little lemon tree survived through one Montana winter?  It looks so cozy in it's rock shelter. What is the approximate diameter of the circle?  Is the open side facing the North and the back/berm side facing the south?  would the wind tend to come in from the north in winter?  In my yard I'd be able to put a wall up on the north side and leave the south/west side open.  Wouldn't that work?

I'm pretty sure the little tree surrounded by rock that I posted earlier isn't the lemon tree--it's just one of the many fruit trees on Wheaton Labs. I'm actually not at Wheaton Labs, so you'll probably get better answers to your question by asking it in the the permaculture superpower in berms thread, or the Lemon Trees in Montana thread.

I hope that helps!

For those of you who own the cards, how many other names did you find before getting the cheat sheet?