Part 2/3 – Campus-Wide Design and Initial Planting Phase: UMass Permaculture Documentary Series

September 23, 2012 | Filed under: Videos | Posted by:


This video focuses on phases II and III of the project: -Winter 2011 – A campus-wide garden design workshop -Spring – Early Summer 2011 – Initial Planting. Backstory: In October, 2010 UMass Amherst transformed a 1/4 grass lawn on campus into a diverse, low-maintenance, edible, educational, and model permaculture garden that is also easily replicable. Learn how this student-led project can be easily replicated and spread to other campuses, institutions… any piece of land for that matter. UMass Amherst is one of the first university’s undertaking a project like this, directly on campus, and supplying the food to its dining commons. Please considering donating to UMass Permaculture! umass.edu This video Produced by www.adaptiveNOW.com

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9 Responses to Part 2/3 – Campus-Wide Design and Initial Planting Phase: UMass Permaculture Documentary Series

  1. hell yeah!

    julianat
    September 23, 2012 at 10:01 am
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  2. Part 3 is now up! It’s entitled, “Growing a Model Sustainable Campus”. You can click the link at 4:55 to view it.

    AdaptiveNow
    September 23, 2012 at 10:33 am
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  3. Part 3 is now up! It’s entitled, “Growing a Model Sustainable Campus”. You can click the link at 4:55 to view it.

    AdaptiveNow
    September 23, 2012 at 10:57 am
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  4. part 3 is where they pave it

    psbjr
    September 23, 2012 at 11:03 am
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  5. I’d also like to know where Part 3/3 is. I so enjoyed watching the first two and am really sad there seems to be no more. I’d like to help the University of Cape Town start a similar project. Any help would be amazing. Keep up the great work UMass, very inspiring stuff. 🙂

    Alexander Dowding
    September 23, 2012 at 11:35 am
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  6. Where is video 3/3 in this series?

    EAFolta
    September 23, 2012 at 12:26 pm
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  7. They mention the design charette here, and the multi-purpose outcomes, but what specifically was done to select plants that would grow well together? What plants were finally selected, and are there perennial vegetables, etc.?

    EAFolta
    September 23, 2012 at 1:26 pm
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  8. I believe that I am READY to delve into Permaculture. Thus far I like the idea of creating a simple garden that can grow food in a very sustainable way. Bring it on.

    waellerbe
    September 23, 2012 at 1:54 pm
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  9. I REALLY like the girls music in the background. Do they have stuff available for download anywhere?

    JohnnySoprano87
    September 23, 2012 at 2:48 pm
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