Ep. 123 - Permaculture Goal #1: Start Simple - with Cormac Harkin

Thriving The Future Podcast

You don't hear this permaculture message very often: Start Simple.

Usually people are watching videos of Geoff Lawton and planning swales and dams and grafting, and...

Cormac Harkin of Vine Permaculture starts his consults with basic questions:

• What do you like to eat?
• What kind of time do you have during the week to devote to a garden. (if you spend 8 hours a week on a garden, where does that time come from?)
• When you walk out to your garden, what does it look like?

He starts people out simply, with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and then add on from there.

• A salad garden by the back door with cut and come again lettuce.
• A kitchen garden.
• A layout that makes sense: You walk out to the chicken coop to get eggs - what gardens or beds can you harvest from on the way?

Cormac does a Free Food Forest Abundance planning session as well.

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