Section 1 - You And Your Site

Personal Details

Name:

Email:

Choose Your Site

What kind of property are you designing on?

• Your Land

• Someone Else's Land

• Public Property

• Other (Specify)

Identify Your Client's Brief

Describe the intended use of the property, i.e., the design brief provided by the client:

This property will primarily serve: (Select One)

• An Individual

• A Family

• A Business

• Other (Specify)

Identify the level of food self-reliance required:
The goal will be to meet _______________ needs on site (Select One)

• All

• Most

• Some

• Few

• None

Specify the Client's Priorities (rank 3-5 specific needs or goals in order of importance.

1. A high percentage of self-sufficiency.

2. Effective at softening winter's cold and summer's heat.

3. Efficient layout for managing nursery.

4. Secure premises for fire, theft.

5. Representative of permaculture practices

The client values visual privacy:

• Not At All

• Very little

• Some

• A Lot

• Total Seclusion

• It was not mentioned (go ask them now)

The client has specific dietary restrictions affecting the design:

No grains, limited spices. The client manages ulcerative colitis by eating simple foods.

The client has specifically requested that the design provide:

1. A self-feeding place to raise freshwater fish and aquatic plants. A canal/channel with food growing trellis is desired. Possibly covered in a hoophouse when it gets cold or year round if possible/reasonable.

2. A swale or two to grow nursery stock for cuttings and seed.

3. The ability to raise trees for sale that have tap roots.

4. A living security fence (hawthorne?)

5. Root cellar in rear bank

6. Productive windbreaks where possible.

7. An attached food focused greenhouse on the southern wall of the building.

8. Plenty of storage for rainwater from the roof of the building and proposed structures.

9. An outdoor washing/processing station that saves waste water and waste for compost and/or fish & poultry feed.

10. Safely place a biochar production facility with sufficient room for feedstock, fire safe production zone, and a safe and secure storage facility for produced char.

11. Poultry and compost area.

12. Low input system for feeding poultry and fish. Fodder? Insects?

13. Snow management system.

14. Winter hardy nursery hoop houses.

15. Top bar bee hives.

16. Mosquito reduction

17. No lawn to mow.

What structures exist on site that we will not be designing and placing as part of the design? (list as appropriate).

What drives, roads, paths, or other access exist on site that we will not be changing or placing as part of the design? (list as appropriate with brief description if appropriate).

We will be designing and locating: (select all that apply)

1. Home(s)

2. Outbuilding(s)

3. Fence(s)

4. Earthworks

5. Water Storage

6. Roads/Paths/Access

7. Non-visible hydrological solutions

8. Other (please specify)

Client Notes

Known advantages, resources, or limitations: (list as appropriate)

What is the largest limitation or obstacle related to this site that will need to be overcome as this design is implemented? (Provide the single example, followed by a paragraph summary explanation of details and preliminary solutions)

What specific skills, abilities, or resources does the client personally bring to the situation, if any? (list, or brief paragraph)

This client's familiarity with Permaculture is: (select one)

• Low

• Medium

• High

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