Permaculture Guilds with Toby Hemenway - Lesson 15 - Full course at Organic Life Guru

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In this lesson, Toby Hemenway uses Prezi as an alternative to PowerPoint for his presentation titled 'Guilds: Building Blocks for Creating Ecosystems'. Toby takes this sometimes mystifying topic and presents it for you very simply and clearly. He uses the well-known three-sisters triad of corn, beans, and squash to explain what a guild is and how it works.
He starts with a simple two-part guild, with pictures to clarify, then moves onto a more complicated six-part guild, also with pictures to clarify. Then Toby presents three methods for designing guilds -- by structure, function, and analogy. He unpacks the idea of designing by structure as he talks about edge, layering, interplanting, and stacking. He begins to unpack designing by function as he talks about the first three of the six pieces of a guild: central elements, insectaries, and mulch makers.
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[@B30pt87]

Wow, thank you for posting this! Very informative. (I subscribed immediately)

[@janinetrue]

Best short video I've ever seen on permaculture.

[@happybuddyperson]

I got a volunteer guild assemblage; it was cucumbers (I planted), radish (volunteered on it's own), strawberry, plantain (Plantago), lettuce, Tomato (I planted) all in a raised bed. This is only one of so many that are popping up along with the plants I plant.

[@chrisbadgett2551]

+happybuddyperson Nice work with your guild!

[@crwalpole]

Where's lesson 1??

[@chrisbadgett2551]

+crwalpole Lesson 1 is here: organiclifeguru.com/course/food-forest-design-care-for-cites-and-suburbs/

[@thegardensanctuary2248]

Can comfrey pull up juglone from the soil too?

[@marthaconover4460]

There are certain plants that are juglone tolerant. Currants are one. I forgot the rest, but if you google "juglone tolerant plants"... there's quite a few to plant under or near your black walnut:)

[@cipriantodoran1674]

Good question. I don't think it works that way (it will bring up minerals which tha plat itself needs). I think juglone needs to be broken down by m8cro-organisms in the soil, over time.

[@revolutionfarm1232]

I started watching this video and thought 'this is great, some free information on permaculture guilds' but no... turns out organic life guru is just in it for the money. I should have known when I read the name...

[@joebobjenkins7837]

Nyaya Films how dare he!
So when are you coming over to help build my deck? Ya know, seeing as how you're so into everyone working for free.

[@ashleycasey2093]

Complicated shit, man! But good stuff, don't get me wrong, excellent stuff!

[@chrisbadgett2551]

+Ashley Casey Glad you liked it. I know what you mean. Whole systems design can get complicated at times.

[@DG123z]

Where's the rest?

[@chrisbadgett2551]

+David Gaudette The rest of the course is on Organic Life Guru: organiclifeguru.com/course/food-forest-design-care-for-cites-and-suburbs/

[@stonedapefarmer]

RIP

[@kitzkamp1]

It would have been helpful if you didn't cut this off in the middle of Function!

[@chrisbadgett2551]

Sorry about that. The full video course is here: organiclifeguru.com/course/food-forest-design-care-for-cites-and-suburbs/