User:Beleriandcrises/sandbox

= ToDo =


 * improve Cookbook:Chive

= Grow Mushrooms =

A guide at the cheap, just for saprobes (Pleurotus, shiitake etc). It's a cycle so start where you want


 * Introduction

Prerequisites
 * Jars
 * Sterile conditions

In the Cycle


 * How clone mycelium
 * Spawn
 * Grow Mushrooms on wood logs

Mushroom and design


 * Ideas for using mushrooms in the garden
 * Mushrooms in Permaculture
 * Mycofiltration
 * Spent mushroom compost

= Forest Gardening =

= How to grow Pleurotus =

= Bug hotel =

= how to do a paper chromatography =

You should probably write the article on wikipedia about it first

=Designers and wikimedia (or something along the line)= A wikibook about how the wikimedia project tools, often underused, can be of great help to ecological designers. Maybe useful, maybe not, just notes for now


 * using wikiversity to conduct experiment in a decentralized way, or wikibooks to publish tutorials and guides

categories
use the tool to search across different categories to have a list of plants, mushroom or animal that may suit your needs : https://petscan.wmflabs.org/

useful categories

 * Category:Bird_food_plants
 * Category:Drought-tolerant_trees
 * Edible fruits
 * Perennial vegetables

stuff
= Permaculture Wiki Course =

( Maybe could be merged with Permaculture Design? )

This course is intendend to contain all the knowledge you can get from a Permaculture Design Course - and more - in an easy and free way. Free as in free beer, but especially as in free speech. It will not however give you any certificate at the end, and your only gain will be knowledge, as with all wikiversity courses.

The index I wrote here is basically the one from Bill Mollisons' Permaculture: A Designer's Manual. I conceptually separated Climates and Techniques to make it easier to add more climates. The techniques included are just a couple that I find vital for Permaculture, but I advice against treating them in a very deep way. Instead, create another wikiversity project or a wikibook for them and link them.

Right now the structure is the one of a book, but we can follow whatever workflow we find suits our needs the most. Discuss it in the talk page

Index

 * 1) Design
 * 2) Introduction to Permaculture
 * 3) History
 * 4) Why permaculture?
 * 5) Concepts in Design
 * 6) Ethical Principles
 * 7) 12 Design principles
 * 8) Methods of Design
 * 9) Zones
 * 10) Sectors
 * 11) Slope, aspect, elevation, orientation
 * 12) Mapping
 * 13) Pattern understanding
 * 14) Climatic factors
 * 15) Trees
 * 16) Water
 * 17) Soils
 * 18) Earthworking
 * 19) Climates
 * 20) Humid tropics
 * 21) Dryland strategies
 * 22) Humid cool climates
 * 23) Techniques
 * 24) Forest Gardening
 * 25) Aquaculture
 * 26) Other related techniques
 * 27) Misc Resources

How to contribute
You are encourage to edit, even if you've never edited a wiki before. Be bold, we are all here to help and you can't really break anything. The task of creating a complete PDC is a lot for a single person, and anyway the more the merrier. You can ask for help in doing it by sending a message in the talk page.

You are invited to create your own account for the edits, so that they can be eventually discussed and you can be a more involved member of the project. You can, however, also edit the pages without being a member, and your IP will be displayed instead of your nickname.

The contents of the course
The course is intended to give an easy access to the permaculture design techniques without an excessive information bloating. Permaculture-related stuff is an impressively huge amount of knowledge, and with time people incorporated in it every possible sustainable practice, from rocket mass heaters to compost, from aquaponics to synergistic gardening and eco-building.

Some are kept because of their high importance in designed ecosystems, such as aquaculture, forest gardening or earth-works, while others that are usable but not fundamentals, such as compost-heated shower, should not be written here. At it's core permaculture is a design system, which can accomodate everything, so so if we started writing every technique here would be a mess. Instead, you can create another wikiversity course or a wikibook and put a link in the "related techniques" page.

Style

 * Don't bloat the pages with informations. Of course if it's relevant to the page write about it, but only in the measure of which it's useful to understand the subject, and then you can put a link to the wikipedia page for more informations.

Example: while talking about aquaculture you don't need to talk about what fishes are and the taxonomy. Just say what is relevant to aquaculture (the food-mass conversion of fishes, what are the best fishes) and then put a link to the wikipedia page about fishes.


 * For instructions, use the "you" person. This is to have some internal consistency and making easier structures as advised by wikiversity guidelines

Example: "look at the place during the solstices and equinox and take pictures", NOT "the place should be looked at at solstices and equinox and pictures should be taken".

Didactic material
Wikiversity is not just about written pages. You can draw diagrams, create slides, make videos and whatever you think may help the learning process.

= Nettle and mushrooms risotto =