Permaculture Design

for SF Residential
Landscapes
Kevin Bayuk
Prepared for
SF Green Building Professionals Guild
May 2010
Clifford Harper
 So What is Permaculture?

PEOPLE PLANET
CARE CARE

SHARE the SURPLUS

Permaculture History and
Definitions
Catch & Store Energy
Use and Value Renewable
Resources & Services
Integrated Rather Than
Segregate
Value Edges and the Marginal
 5 Urban Applications of
Permaculture Principles
 Trees or vegetation for shade and windbreak
 Kitchen, Kitchen, Kitchen
 Landscape access pathways on contour
 Polyculture
 Support species
 Physical Habitat
Focus on the Kitchen
Contour
Polyculture
 Help grow food
 Sheet mulching
 Divert cardboard and “construction waste” into
landscape
 Raised beds on contour
 Perennial veggies, backyard orchard culture
 Compost on site
 Vermi-composting and pile
 Living fences
Favorite Perennial Vegetables
 Tree Collards  Perpetual
 Scarlet Runner Spinach
Beans  Scorzonera
 Nine Star Broccoli hispanica
 Daylily
 Viola odorata - Sh
 Artichoke or
 Perennial Arugula - Cardoon
FS  Asparagus - FS
 French Sorrel  Pepino Dulce
 Nettles  Tilia cordata
 Chayote - FS
 Fruit Trees
 Almonds  Mulberry
 Apples  Nectarine
 Apricots  Olives
 Asian Pears  Peach
 Avocado  Pear
 Cherry  Pineapple Guava
 Citrus  Plum
 Fig  Pluots
 Kiwi  Persimmon
 Loquat  Pomegranate
 Cultivars

http://www.urbanpermacultureinstitute.
com/ployculture-guilds.html
 Favorites
 Apple  Loquat
 Gordon, Fuji  Benlehr,
 Apricot Advance
 Katy, Gold Kist  Pear
 Cherry  Seckel
 Minnie Royal,  Pineapple Guava
Royal Lee,  Plum
Amarillo (Sour)  Methley, Valor,
 Citrus Beauty,
 Meyer Improved Weeping Santa
Rosa
 Fig
 Desert King,
 Pluots
Osborne Prolific
Favorite

PLUMS!
Backyard Orchard Culture
Belgian Fence
Compost Systems
 Reduce Water Use
Rainwater harvesting
Greywater
Mulching
Perennial vegetation
Sidewalk landscaping
Rainwater Harvesting

System for House in Oregon

Rain Garden
Total
Greywater=
59%

Source: USEPA 1992

Art Ludwig
Art Ludwig
Jane Martin
Visioning- Kitchen Garden
 What does your client eat?
 What would your client like
to eat?
 Brainstorm actual meals…
Soft Fruit & Groundcover
 Raspberries
 Cape Gooseberry - PSh
 Blackberries - Sh
 Evergreen Huckleberries - Sh
 Ugni - PSh
 Thimbleberry - Sh
 Eleagnus - PSh
 Currants - Sh
 Strawberries - PSh
 Rare Fruit?
 Fuschia - Sh
 F. splendens
 Tamarillo
 Strawberry Guava
 Opuntia sp.
 Babaco - PSh
 Passiflora mollissima
 Arbutus unedo - PSh
 Favorite Herbs
 Anise Hyssop  Sage
 Borage  Salad Burnet
 Calendula  Thyme
 Chamomile  Valerian
 Lemon Balm  Yarrow
 Nasturtium -PSh  Yerba Buena - PSh
 Rosemary  Miner’s Lettuce - PSh
 Lemon Verbena  Chives
 Root Crops
 Oca
 Yacon
 Mashua
 Potato onions
 Sunchoke - PSh
 Canna edulis - PSh
 Support Functions
 Nitrogen fixer
 Dynamic accumulator
 Ground cover
 Pest suppression/confusion
 Insectary
 Climber
 Trellis for climber
 Windbreaks/shelter
Some Support Species
 Nitrogen fixer
 Clovers
 Eleagnus - PSh
 Acacia
 Fava beans - PSh
 Vetch
 Alfalfa
 Dynamic accumulator
 Comfrey
 Nettles - PSh
 Yarrow
 Borage
 Chicory - PSh
 Dandelion
Some Support Species
 Ground cover
 Alyssum
 Clover
 Yarrow
 Mint - Sh
 Strawberries - PSh
 Pest suppression/confusion
 Alliums
 Most herbs
 Marigolds
Some Support Species
 Insectary
 Alyssum
 Clover
 Comfrey
 Fennel
 Linden
 Windbreaks/shelter
 Sunchoke - PSh
 Fig
 Loquat
 Mulberry - PSh
 Acacia
 Eleagnus - PSh
 Resources and Further Info
 ROI
 Design and Installation help
 Upcycle - David Cody -
david@upcyclegroup.com
 SF Landscapes -
http://www.sflandscapes.com/
 SF Permaculture Guild
 www.permacultrue-sf.org
 Classes at UPI, UC BEX, EAT
kevin@uas.coop
http://www.permaculture-sf.org/urban-pdc.html

Summer PDC
starting June 16th