Permaculture Design & Activities at School
This survey is one of the ways we involve people in designing the future of their school campuses around the Greenhouses, Cafeterias and Classrooms at schools and learning centers.

School gardens, greenhouse programs, and agroforestry projects are ecological learning laboratories for students of all grades, and their communities.   The provide a unique, fun and enticing place for connecting with climate, energy, science, food and humanities; a truly interdisciplinary platform for learning systems. Permaculture design is a participatory learning systems that teaches also an ethical approach to experimentation and play. It is also a practical imaginative and information intensive way to plan the land use, especially co-created, commonly-held spaces and the processes for stewarding them.  

Permaculture is a design process for creating ecological systems and guild habitat that can, through emergence and diversity, sustain themselves indefinitely.  Permaculture is used to design "whole systems" that are integrated, healthy and abundant.  Permaculture Design looks not only at food production and gardens/farms but also buildings, energy, water and curriculum.  The ethics of permaculture are: permaculture ethics: Earth care, People care, and Fair share.  There are also several principles derived from many patterns seen in nature. We reflect on the patterns of nature and hopefully we inform our interactions with nature in away that our design patterns are natural, meaning that spaces designed with permaculture inspire multitudes of learning engagements and the ecosystem, expresses the regenerative capacity of a living system, so that patterns in nature may be observed.  

As part of the 207Permaculture design process, this survey is open to stakeholders to assist in co-imagining and collaborative process around the landscape. All results are transparent for all stakeholders to access and make meaning from.  Our consultation and designs are informed by the responses to this form. Please fill it out to the best of your ability. This should take a 15-20 minutes to complete but you may go at your own pace.

If you are new to the concept of permaculture design, please feel free to view some of the resources below to learn more:

Permaculture Principles web site http://permacultureprinciples.com/
Inhabit (Permaculture film) Trailer [3:34 min video] https://vimeo.com/119915612
Permaculture Magazine web site http://www.permaculture.co.uk/what-is-permaculture

Thank you,
Rachel Lyn
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Preliminary Design Questions
Your Name *
First and Last
Your Email Address *
(will only be used to communicate about this project)
General Goals *
If the resources can be secured and the plans are sound, what would YOU like to see as "tangible outcomes" of implementing a permaculture design for at school gradually over the next two to three years?
Motivations *
Please give some specific reasons WHY this goal or set of outcomes is important to you.  What are the underlying reasons for this goal to have risen to the surface for you?  How might this link to broader mission or values of the school system?
Desired Features, Functions & Yields *
What are some of the specific things you’d like to see (or see MORE of) at your school?  For the moment, think big and don’t yet worry about how to make it happen logistically or financially.  Think in terms of physical features and elements, “functions” that need to be served and for whom, and any yields or actual “products” you’d like from the site (food, medicine, beauty, salad!).
Yes, definitely
Yes, if possible
Sounds interesting, need more info
Probably not
Definitely not
Don't Know/Not Sure
Outdoor "Classroom" & Playspaces
Different Kinds of Functional Social Spaces
Energy Efficiency Elements 
Renewable Energy Elements
Fruit Production (tree/shrub)
More Direct Landscape/Curriculum Links
Annual Vegetable Production
Perennial Vegetables
Garden-Based Inquiry or Research Projects
Animals or Livestock
Surplus for making value-added products/crafts
Nut Production
Integrating Built and "Natural" Spaces
Rainwater Collection / Water Harvesting
Bees & Beneficial Insect Habitat
Other design elements you'd like to suggest?
Site Challenges or Problems to Solve
What are some of the physical site challenges or things you wish could be different about how the physical site is or how it "works?"
Stake Holders (or "Who is Involved? Who is Affected? Who Decides?")
We believe the best designs and plans, the ones that have the most chance of  succeeding, are the ones that are co-created by the many "stake-holders" involved in the use and care of the space.  

For each of the following groups, let us know your opinion of how best to involve them in the process of creating a "participatory permaculture design" at your school.  We would also welcome (below) specific names of people who you think should be invited to participate.
Teachers *
Check all that apply.
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Students *
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Parents *
Check all that apply.
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Facilities Staff *
Check all that apply.
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Administrators *
Check all that apply.
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Board or Other Governance Bodies *
Check all that apply.
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Community Groups or Businesses *
Check all that apply.
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Neighbors *
Check all that apply.
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Who else? Specific Stakeholder Names/Groups
Are there specific individuals or groups you want to make sure are identified as being important to the success of a good design process?
Communications Method/Frequency *
How and how often should the core team working on this share updates with the school's broader community?
Finally...
Desired Outcomes and Vision *
This process is meant to create practical and visionary design for your school, including ideas for maintaining and financing the work over time and making the best use of the tangible and educational "yields." Given that, what gets YOU most excited about this work?
Anything at all you'd like to share with us at this time?
Your Ongoing Involvement? *
Would you like to be part of the design conversations to determine how this site will be maintained, funded and used?
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