I haven't found much good online documentation for things like this. The largest and best collection of
permaculture photos I know of is at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/permaculture.biz/ Which includes tours of
Sepp Holzer's work.
I think the very best photos of temperate climate plantings are in "Edible Forest Gardens" by Jacke and Toensmeier. There are also several videos that capture the structure of specific guilds and permie
land, including:
- "Global Gardener" #3, on cool climates:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2737120857870617709 - Holzer's three main videos,
1, “farming with nature” - 37:10
2, “terraces and raised beds” - 30:10
3, “aquaculture” - 32:27
Here's #3:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=235437896615994763 A little less revealing but still useful are:
- "
Permaculture in Practice"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8562292314731441861 - "
Permaculture Trio" including a survey of Robert Hart's place
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5044992889376738498 Classic Freudian quote from Hart: "I have an excellent German shredding machine..."
The video on Emelia Hazelip is also worth seeing, about a young garden with few
perennial elements.
Scroll down at Midwest Permaculture's site and you'll see a video stream and some decent photo galleries. I'd point out the one of Mark Shepard's land in particular.
http://www.midwestpermaculture.com/ http://www.midwestpermaculture.com/June07PhotoSummary.php And after you get past the first half-hour of brain-dead dry-erase-board jabbering in
Geoff Lawton's video "Food Forest - Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way" (1:22:27), he'll show quite a wonderful series of subtropical land transformations. You
should also look for the short videos that accompany this longer one, being:
- "30 Year Old Food Forest" (10:28)
- "300 Year Old Food Forest" (5:55)
- "2000 Year Old Food Forest" (4:36)
But again the two-volume "Edible Forest Gardens" is immeasurably handy (and expensive) with good photos and case studies for eastern temperate North American gardens and beyond!
