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Planning to get the most out of the energies flowing through our property Copyright © Beverley Paine May 2002 Permaculture encourages the use and management of wild energies (derived from the sun, water flow, fire, wind, rain) entering our property. The aim is to control and direct these energies to maximise benefits and yields, making the energies work for us not against us. This means understanding, through close and careful observation, the nature, origin and behaviour of these energies. Permaculture calls this process sector analysis and planning. All of these energies are generated from outside of our property and flow through it, and can be used in many different ways to make our lives easier. When designing our property we marked the entry positions, direction and intensity of flows, and exit points of these energies on a contoured map. It became easy to see where to place things like trees, hedges, fences, buildings, tanks and damns to get the most use out of these energies before they left our system. Most of the energies we sought to 'harvest'; some, like fire or flood, we needed to deflect or exclude. The idea is to place built or planted elements to serve our needs. Some of the strategies we've adopted include:
There are lots of ways we use the energies entering our site to our benefit, and we're always modifying what we've done to make life easier. When doing this we think hard about using appropriate technology, preferring low energy solutions to ones that cost a lot or need hard work, but more on that next time.
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