This 1 hour and 41 minute video is an interview with Diego Footer (founder of Permaculture Voices) called "15 Lessons Learned from Diving Headlong into a Permaculture Based Homestead." The interview was a part of the Eat Your Dirt Summit put on by Amanda Smith from Solace Lessons.
15 Urban Permaculture Lessons: To save you massive amounts of time, money and water
The 15 lessons. Not speculation or hypothetical. Based on my own failures, trials, and errors. It's been 5 years of a lot of mistakes
Lesson 1: define your context
Lesson 2: accept the fact that the more land you have, the less intensively you will be able to manage it
Lesson 3: understimate your available time
Lesson 4: understand and have a good grasp on the basics first
Lesson 5: think ahead 1, 3, 5, 10 years
Lesson 6: observe the site
Lesson 7: respect seasonality
Lesson 8: establish water & access first
Lesson 9: start at your backdoor
Lesson 10: get soil on site - build, buy, bring in soil
Lesson 11: how little can you actually do?
Lesson 12: don't box yourself in or cut yourself short
Lesson 13: start with simple and low tech infrastructure, and increase complexity and permanence as needed and as confidence grows
Lesson 14: beware of the eco-hipsters and their wares
Lesson 15: massive amounts of surplus are available locally
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