Suburban Permaculture

Before and now fotos along with text explanation

Graphic view of the site.

The site

Car Port Conversion

Sheet mulching

Concrete Removal

Fencelines and Food Forest

Food Forest More Photos

Water Features and Habitat

Cold frames

Water Storage and Management

Solar Elements

Bungalow fotos

List of Plants In The Ground

Suburban Permaculture

The suburban permaculture project began in 2000 when I moved into this mid fiftees suburban house on a 1/4 acre property in Eugene, Oregon. The intention from the start was to remake the house and property with mostly low cost strategies so it could take care of more of my needs making use of on site assets like rain, soil and sun, plus my own creativity.

There are many fotos that document the past ten years. Its been a wonderful experience. To see the fotos, check the column to the left starting with "Graphic view of the site."

Each heading to the left includes a number of then and now photos, plus text describing the projects and captions to the images. There is some how to information but its mostly a review of that project.

If you are working on a similar project, please tell me about what you are doing, where you are, and what your experience has been. Thanks!

One section of GTLC is about urban land use shifts. On the DVD there are fotos of my place and other locations with similar features, several examples are much larger in scale that include multiple properties.

Please have a look at an article written eight years ago for Architecture Week.  It provides historical perspective.