Sf Permaculture Presentation- V3

Kezar Food Forest

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Intro Vision/Goals Site Analysis Kezar Food Forest Design Methods of Implementation Management Summary

 

Golden Gate Park: Kezar Triangle

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Golden Gate Park: Kezar Triangle

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Golden Gate Park: Kezar Triangle

 

 

Vision & Goals: Overview  We have designed a two-acre food forest for an underutilized area of Golden Gate Park.  The forests and meadows will have the look and feel of a park, while the trees and plants themselves serve multiple functions such as providing fruits, nuts, medicinal plants, teas, berries, leafy greens, edible roots and bulbs.  All the plant guilds are designed into our scheme. We saw that the original Park owed its successes to the many Permaculture Principles that its’ founders applied.  We will show you these innovations used particularly by William Hammond Hall, the designer and first superintendent of the Park.  

 

Vision & Goals: Historical Precedence  Our support for the vision of the Park as a valuable resource is also historical. During times of financial depression and the 1906 earthquake and fire, the Park was an invaluable resource to the people of San Francisco.  Creative schemes were used to hire the unemployed who built the bridges and roads and plant trees in the Park. Meadows became tent cities. Children attended outside schools and tended the many vegetable gardens.

 

 

History: Tent Cities

 

 

Vision & Goals: Building Community  Today it is estimated that 1,500 people live within the park. The City’s lack of resources for the homeless and mentally ill are putting a huge strain on the Park.  We see our sample food forest not as a way to attract more homeless and unemployed but as a way for more citizens to get involved in creative solutions that could ease and eliminate this poverty and lack of care.  To such an end, we have suggested a mobile produce market and food exchanges. Our experimental model could be applied to many other places in the Park as well as empty lots in neighborhoods and smaller parks in the City.  

 

Resource: Homeless in the Park

 

 

Site for Farmer’s Market Off Stanyan

 

 

Vision & Goals: Wildlife Habitats  Our choice of a food forest is also a way to restore wildlife. Food and habitats will attract birds, bats, small rodents, gopher snakes (right now gophers have a monopoly), butterflies, and bees.  Wildlife corridors are becoming recognized more and more as valuable resources to all communities.

 

 

Vision & Goals: Wildlife Habitats

 

 

Vision & Goals: Utilize Permaculture Principles to Lower Costs & Reduce Maintenance  We have designed a forest garden that will develop over time; from pioneer plant communities to more diverse and stable communities.  By mimicking complex forest ecosystems, we learn how to rebuild self-maintaining landscapes. Wild ecosystems contain webs of cooperation and interdependence.  The goal of forest garden design is to generate such self-maintaining, networked ecosystems.

 

 

Site Analysis: Sector Map

 

 

 Dogs  Street Noise  Shortcut for pedestrians  Recreational use  Existing Vegetation

Site Analysis: Sector Map     

 

 

Low Organic Matter Sandy Soil Sun Water Community/Political

Sectors: Windbreak to the NW

 

 

Sectors: Native Plant Nursery

 

 

Site Analysis: Zone Map

 

 

History: Succession Planting

 

 

History: William Hammond Hall

 

 

History: Tent Cities

 

 

History: Golden Gate Park Then

 

 

Kezar Food Forest: A City Park with Multiple Functions

 

 

Kezar Stadium - Then

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olive/Fruit Tree Guild

 

 

Olive/Fruit Tree Guild

 

 

Olive/Fruit Tree Guild

 

 

Olive/Fruit Tree Guild  Function: Produce food, herbs, dynamic accumulators  Chop and drop the understory plants to create a walkable space under tree during olive harvest.  Understory: • • • • • • • • •

 

Fava beans- could be cut down in spring Comfrey- dies down in winter Dandelions Clovers- N fixer Borage- herb, dies down in summer Oregano- can be harvested in spring Lemon verbena Purslane Daffodils  

Healing Labyrinth

 

 

Healing Labyrinth

 

 

Healing Labyrinth  Function: Produce herbs, medicinals, meditation, sacred space  Plants: • • • • • •

 

Rosemary Mint Chamomile Thyme Sage Lavender

 

Hedgerow

 

 

Hedgerow

 

 

Hedgerow

 

 

Hedgerow

 

 

Hedgerow  Function: Barrier from sound/wind/dogs, habitat, and bird food  Plants: • • • • • • • • • •

 

Plum Trees Hawthorne Trees Crabapple Elderberry Hollyleaf Cherry Honeysuckle Climbing Roses Dutchman’s Pipe Quince Herbs

 

Central Meadow & Wetland Area

 

 

Central Meadow & Wetland Area  Function: Habitat for birds, space for people activity  Sheep Mow Meadow  Plants: • • • • • • • •

 

Yarrow Poppies Seed Wild Flowers Meadow grasses w/ wild flowers Tule Marsh Cattail Clover Buckwheat

 

Oak and Native Grass Guild

 

 

Oak and Native Grass Guild

 

 

Oak and Native Grass Guild  Function: Windbreak, Bird Cover, Habitat, Insectary

 Oak, Buckeye, Vine Maple, Toyon  Plants: • • • • • • • • • • • • •

 

Seaside Daisy Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus) Artemesia Elderberries Ceanothus Mimulus Wild Currants Gooseberries Lemonade Berry Coffee Berry Douglas Iris Lupine Yerba Buena  

Fig Grove

 

 

Fig Grove

 

 

Fig Grove  Function: Picnic Area, Food, Shelter  Plants: • Bracken Fern • Violas • Oregon grape

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Berry Border

 

 

Berry Border  Function: Protect park from dogs, barrier from cars,

food  Plum, Apple, Pear, Loquat Trees  Plants: • • • • • •

 

Comfrey Fava beans Nasturtium Olallieberry Thornless Blackberry Thimbleberry

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

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Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond

 

 

Outdoor Classroom Area & Pond  Function: Educational Area,

Experimental Area  Plants: • • • • • •

 

Old Roses (for oils, rosehips) Lavenders Lemons Limes Kumquats Seasonal Veggies/Herbs

 

Method of Succession: Nuclei That Merge

 

 

Method of Succession: Soil Building

 

 

Method of Succession: Mid-Succession

 

 

Method of Succession: Mature Forest

 

 

Method of Succession: Mature Forest

 

 

Method of Succession: Species Niche

 

 

Forest Management: Coppice

 

 

Efforts in the Park have already begun…

 

 

Other Resources

 

 

 

 

References Suddenly San Francisco: The Early Years. by Charles Lockwood. The Making of Golden Gate Park, The Early Years: 1865 – 1906 by Raymond H. Clary, c. 1980, A California Living Book The Making of Golden Gate Park, The Growing Years: 1906 – 1950. Raymond H. Clary, c 1987, Don’t Call It Frisco Press Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison, c. 1988 Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1. By Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeier, c. 2005, Chelsea Green Pub. Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible landscape. By Robert Hart, C. 1991 Pacific Coast Trees. By McMinn & Maino, c. 1935 Univ. of California Press Sacred Trees, Nathaniel Altman, Sierra Club Books  

 

Thanks to everyone who helped and inspired us…

 

 

Special thanks to Kevin Bayuk and the SF Permaculture Guild “Start small(ish) and establish a pattern that could be rolled out when success is proven and learnings integrated.”…Kevin Bayuk