Episode 55
Permaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #10 - Optimize The Edge ~ Epi-055
The Sovereign Homestead Podcast
August 7, 202336m 20s
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Show Notes
In today's episode we take a deep dive into Permaculture Design Principle #10 - Optimize The Edge. We will discuss:
- Edge: What is it exactly?
- The real-world effects of edges in your homestead landscape with regards to energy translation, species diversity and overall productivity.
- How to manage edge for physical environments/elements to get more of what you want and less of what you don't (HINT: It's really about surface area!)
- Lots of examples of edge
- Optimizing edge is really about optimizing relationships between elements
- Why greater harmony is the ultimate aim of making adjustments to the edges between different elements and media
- Benefic vs. neutral vs. negative relationships -> and how to get all your living systems to place nice together
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