SF Permaculture Presentation- V3
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Transcript of SF Permaculture Presentation- V3
Kezar Food ForestI. IntroII. Vision/GoalsIII. Site AnalysisIV. Kezar Food Forest DesignV. Methods of ImplementationVI. ManagementVII.Summary
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Golden Gate Park: Kezar Triangle
Golden Gate Park: Kezar Triangle
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Golden Gate Park: Kezar Triangle
Vision & Goals: Overview
We have designed a two-acre food forest for an underutilized area of Golden Gate Park.
The forests and meadows will have the look and feel of a park, while the trees and plants themselves serve multiple functions such as providing fruits, nuts, medicinal plants, teas, berries, leafy greens, edible roots and bulbs.
All the plant guilds are designed into our scheme. We saw that the original Park owed its successes to the many Permaculture Principles that its’ founders applied.
We will show you these innovations used particularly by William Hammond Hall, the designer and first superintendent of the Park.
Vision & Goals: Historical Precedence
Our support for the vision of the Park as a valuable resource is also historical. During times of financial depression and the 1906 earthquake and fire, the Park was an invaluable resource to the people of San Francisco.
Creative schemes were used to hire the unemployed who built the bridges and roads and plant trees in the Park. Meadows became tent cities. Children attended outside schools and tended the many vegetable gardens.
History: Tent Cities
Vision & Goals: Building Community
Today it is estimated that 1,500 people live within the park. The City’s lack of resources for the homeless and mentally ill are putting a huge strain on the Park.
We see our sample food forest not as a way to attract more homeless and unemployed but as a way for more citizens to get involved in creative solutions that could ease and eliminate this poverty and lack of care.
To such an end, we have suggested a mobile produce market and food exchanges. Our experimental model could be applied to many other places in the Park as well as empty lots in neighborhoods and smaller parks in the City.
Resource: Homeless in the Park
Site for Farmer’s Market Off Stanyan
Vision & Goals: Wildlife Habitats
Our choice of a food forest is also a way to restore wildlife. Food and habitats will attract birds, bats, small rodents, gopher snakes (right now gophers have a monopoly), butterflies, and bees.
Wildlife corridors are becoming recognized more and more as valuable resources to all communities.
Vision & Goals: Wildlife Habitats
Vision & Goals: Utilize PermaculturePrinciples to Lower Costs & Reduce Maintenance
We have designed a forest garden that will develop over time; from pioneer plant communities to more diverse and stable communities.
By mimicking complex forest ecosystems, we learn how to rebuild self-maintaining landscapes. Wild ecosystems contain webs of cooperation and interdependence.
The goal of forest garden design is to generate such self-maintaining, networked ecosystems.
Dogs Street Noise Shortcut for pedestrians Recreational use Existing Vegetation
Site Analysis: Sector Map
Site Analysis: Sector Map Low Organic Matter Sandy Soil Sun Water Community/Political
Sectors: Windbreak to the NW
Sectors: Native Plant Nursery
Site Analysis: Zone Map
History: Succession Planting
History: William Hammond Hall
History: Tent Cities
History: Golden Gate Park Then
Kezar Food Forest: A City Park with Multiple Functions
Kezar Stadium - Then
Olive/Fruit Tree Guild
Olive/Fruit Tree Guild
Olive/Fruit Tree Guild
Function: Produce food, herbs, dynamic accumulators
Chop and drop the understory plants to create a walkable space under tree during olive harvest.
Understory: • Fava beans- could be cut down in spring• Comfrey- dies down in winter• Dandelions• Clovers- N fixer• Borage- herb, dies down in summer• Oregano- can be harvested in spring• Lemon verbena• Purslane• Daffodils
Olive/Fruit Tree Guild
Healing Labyrinth
Healing Labyrinth
Function: Produce herbs, medicinals, meditation, sacred space Plants:
• Rosemary• Mint• Chamomile• Thyme• Sage• Lavender
Healing Labyrinth
Hedgerow
Hedgerow
Hedgerow
Hedgerow
Function: Barrier from sound/wind/dogs, habitat, and bird food
Plants: • Plum Trees• Hawthorne Trees• Crabapple• Elderberry• Hollyleaf Cherry• Honeysuckle• Climbing Roses• Dutchman’s Pipe• Quince• Herbs
Hedgerow
Central Meadow & Wetland Area
Function: Habitat for birds, space for people activity Sheep Mow Meadow Plants:
• Yarrow • Poppies• Seed Wild Flowers• Meadow grasses w/ wild flowers• Tule Marsh• Cattail• Clover• Buckwheat
Central Meadow & Wetland Area
Oak and Native Grass Guild
Oak and Native Grass Guild
Function: Windbreak, Bird Cover, Habitat, Insectary Oak, Buckeye, Vine Maple, Toyon Plants:
• Seaside Daisy• Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus)• Artemesia• Elderberries• Ceanothus• Mimulus• Wild Currants • Gooseberries• Lemonade Berry• Coffee Berry• Douglas Iris• Lupine• Yerba Buena
Oak and Native Grass Guild
Fig Grove
Fig Grove
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Function: Picnic Area, Food, Shelter Plants:
• Bracken Fern• Violas• Oregon grape
Fig Grove
Berry Border
Function: Protect park from dogs, barrier from cars, food
Plum, Apple, Pear, Loquat Trees Plants:
• Comfrey• Fava beans• Nasturtium• Olallieberry• Thornless Blackberry• Thimbleberry
Berry Border
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
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Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Function: Educational Area, Experimental Area
Plants: • Old Roses (for oils, rosehips) • Lavenders• Lemons• Limes• Kumquats• Seasonal Veggies/Herbs
Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond
Method of Succession: Nuclei That Merge
Method of Succession: Soil Building
Method of Succession: Mid-Succession
Method of Succession: Mature Forest
Method of Succession: Mature Forest
Method of Succession: Species Niche
Forest Management: Coppice
Efforts in the Park have already begun…
Other Resources
References
Suddenly San Francisco: The Early Years. by Charles Lockwood.
The Making of Golden Gate Park, The Early Years: 1865 – 1906 by Raymond H. Clary, c. 1980, A California Living Book
The Making of Golden Gate Park, The Growing Years: 1906 – 1950. Raymond H. Clary, c 1987, Don’t Call It Frisco Press
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison, c. 1988
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1. By Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier, c. 2005, Chelsea Green Pub.
Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible landscape. By Robert Hart, C. 1991
Pacific Coast Trees. By McMinn & Maino, c. 1935 Univ. of California Press
Sacred Trees, Nathaniel Altman, Sierra Club Books
Thanks to everyone who helped and inspired us…
“Start small(ish) and establish a pattern that could be rolled out when success is proven and learnings integrated.”…Kevin Bayuk
Special thanks to Kevin Bayuk and the SF Permaculture Guild