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Our Urban Yard Transformation!

Big Sky Headquarters
Mid August!
The site in March. Nearly two feet of snow.
The snow melted off in April.
Grass has sprung up and green, soon to be replaced by a garden!
The permablitz begins! Thank you to nearly 30 people who came out in the rain!
The garden about a month after the permablitz.
The transformation: Some shots from the permablitz
Digging out the water harvesting earthworks
Leveling the earthworks for effective water distribution.
The leveled earthworks
Next step is to create a sheet mulch to build up soil carbon
Sheet mulching underway.
A dirty job!
Permablitz under full tilt.
Earthworks filled in with a permeable walkable material. Gravel in our case.
Battle paint (clay based :) )
Not even a month after the blitz.
First of three 1000-litre rain tanks set up. Right after installation, a big thunderstorm was enough to fill the entire tank!
Not too long after planting
About one and a half months after installation (before the Aug 5 hailstorm)
Lots of borage. Function is to bring in bees. They love it! Now they are fertilizing the tomatoes and squash.
The herb spiral, built out of wasted bricks.
A seating area was integrated into the design. This is part of the office!

 Here's a series of slides from the transformation of our urban yard at Big Sky Permaculture Headquarters!  

WICKED!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on September 20, 2011.

Awesome!! This is a fantastic example of how Permaculture Principles work!

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