What does your permaculture paradise look like?

Maybe you've made your paradise already and are living there now, maybe you are in the midst of putting it together, or maybe it only exists on paper or in your mind.

Share a few snippets of your vision.

Talk about the home, the gardens, the food, the community.

Feel free to wax poetic.

I am in the middle of planning and there are so much ideas and suggestions in the www. that it became really unclear.

- let's say there are 20.000 edible plants and trees in the world, I only have the mindset why I eat only 10 of them (Potatoes, Lettuce, Broccoli & Co)
This was my first thinking and it's already overwhelming.

Now my dream is, when I look at my Land from a mile distance on a sunny day and there is only that single little white cloud directly over my land telling me I do right.

-A house that's built into the hillside in such a way that the "root cellar" doesn't require stairs.

-A large greenhouse attached, bigger than the house itself, which stays warm enough to grow tropical trees even in winter, and has an aquaculture system incorporated. But with stonework done in such a way that everything feels natural, rather than "industrial grower".

-A separate summer kitchen. Close enough to the main house to be convenient, where I could do my canning and baking without heating the whole house.

-A masonry/RMH stove, so the house stays warm in the winter using fuel small enough to be gathered with pruning shears.

-A large annuals/vegetable garden, a perennials garden, small orchard with both fruit and nut trees, small vineyard with all kind of vining fruits, and a section that's just left to run wild.

-A few each of dairy sheep, homestead hogs, meat rabbits, laying hens, quail, and at least one dog and one cat.


I have the land, and the vegetable garden, but the rest is a long ways off!

First my future version of the current home, then the ideal set-up.

1. I have finished pruning back all the trees. The dappled southern sunlight gives just enough energy to grow berries and fruit in my forest garden. Our persimmons and citrus fruit in fall and winter, along with our prolific chayote vines, which we must share to use all of. The last vestiges of summer vegetables like eggplant and green peppers get their last few harvests from the raised bed garden north of our house. The brassicas are growing up and burdock is developing it's first real leaves while the peas and favas are breaking ground. The garlic is pushing out of the earth along with the elephants! Perennial leeks that is. The early spring salad lettuces and greens are already making room for themselves as well. The kumquats are just starting to turn yellow. And the apples are ready!

Over winter the dried persimmons (hoshigaki) are stored and a huge portion of our calories are made ready. The kumquats ripen up for snacks and marmalade, and the brassicas and greens are ready for harvest, along with the daikon radishes.

In spring the warmth sets off all the rose family and in turn the ume fruits, then the blackberries and raspberries, and the plums of course. Later the mulberries fruit plentifully and we have jam for the year in no time, and yogurt filling too. The ume gets ready for umeboshi and plum wine. Apricots are setting fruit. And all the seeds for the warm season are in the ground, with starts and seedlings ready in the greenhouse. The peas give us so much we have to give most of them away. Salads are a daily luxury, dressed with our own vinaigrettes.

In summer come the tomatoes and grapes and too much growth for me to manage. So I relax inside, drinking citrus and salt. There's no point in stressing over what you can't control.

Only exists in my mind of course, but...

Sprawling areas of savanna, denser forests, chinampa-esque lands, and other water retention earthworks on the western edge of Appalachia.
Hickories, chestnuts, oaks, walnuts, pecans, sassafras, persimmons, sycamores, maples, hemlocks, pines, mulberries, willows, elms, hackberries, hazelnuts, paw paws, serviceberries, black and honey locusts, alders, cedars, dogwoods, redbud, junipers, hawthorns, elaeagnus, seaberry, silver buffaloberry, jujube, cherries, plums, apples, crabapples, pears, quinces, medlar, magnolias, great laurels, witch hazel, blueberries, nannyberries, cranberries, huckleberries, currants, elderberries, figs, chokeberries, sumacs, buttonbush, butterfly bushes, spiraeas, brambles, clumping bamboo, smooth rose, honeysuckles, grapes, hopniss, hog-peanuts, asters, ferns, milkweeds, jerusalem artichoke, sochan, coneflowers, yarrow, lovage, comfrey, lavender, thyme, mints, sage, tarragon, chamomile, meadowsweet, basil, lambsquarters, alumroots, quinoa, valerian, magenta spreen, goldenrods, cardoon, orpine, milk thistle, cress, vetch, irises, bee balm, wild yam, sea kale, asparagus, ramps, walking onion, garlic, cattails, sorghum, kernza, buckwheat, wild oat, wild rice, mullein, amaranth, anise hyssop, jewelweeds, wild potato vine, nasturtium, earth chestnut, wild carrot, camas, burdock, horseradish, sorrel, violets, clovers, nettles, thicket bean, chocolate vine, sweet flag, pickerelweed, water purslane, watercress, canada waterweed, water-lilies, spirulina, oyster mushrooms, hericiums, turkey tail, maitake, chicken of the woods, hemlock reishi, liberty caps, chanterelles, and so on and so forth...
Ducks, chickens, turkeys, quails, boars, trout, carp, perch, bullheads, lake sturgeons, bluegills, crappies, lake herrings, minnows, etc...

Multiple small homes made of stone, earth, and wood with a max population density of 6 people per acre; no more than 2 homes/acre. A central space built primarily of geopolymer and large shaped dry stacked high-silicate stones with acid paste between them. Murals depicting examples of symbiosis and geometry and mystic symbols carved and impressed into the walls, inside and out. Oriented with the cardinal directions and in a clearing that allows good night sky visibility. This central space would act as a center of learning where people from other parts of the world could come to gather and then branch out to experience human habitat integrated symbiotically with ecosystems and the water cycle..

All social interactions based on direct voluntary relationships between the people present, with education as the primary guide for morality, rather than imposed rule. People making decisions themselves relevant to the specifics of the situation they are present in and having healthy and fulfilling lifestyles and environment to support that decision making. One of the primary values encouraged through education being the maximization of symbiotically related diversity of forms through direct voluntary interactions..