Here is a Permaculture Map from the downtown area in the tiny coastal rainforest village of Roberts Creek, in southern British Columbia's frog filled cedar forests.
Here is a graphic illustration of the site from the amazing Mark Lee.
Supported by the auspices and generosity of Mark and Don Van Kleek, the Heart Gardens are set of permaculture education gardens woven throughout the less than one square block downtown core of Roberts Creek, a little coastal rainforest mountain village. This is a community demonstration site and living classroom intended to teach people about native plants, bioregional ecology, and ethnobotany as well as organic gardening, permaculture and sustainable development. The staple food and medicine plants of the First Peoples are a huge part of achieving any kind of food security or ecological conservation ethic along with being teacher plants about the peoples of the land. The gardens intention is to help conserve these key plants while educating people about them and promoting their use. The gardens feature more than 250 species of food and medicine plants, a variety of signs, maps, and supporting media. The core collection is over 150 species of food-medicine and tool plants with a long history of use by the Coastal First Peoples.
Here people of different ages and educational backgrounds can guide themselves through the gardens, identifying and learning about plants as well as permaculture techniques. In addition, the gardens are set up to provide an engaging and hands on classroom environment to host different kinds of facilitated permaculture education.
The gardens are formally linked up with all levels of local government (Community Association, Advisory Planning Committee, Official Community Plan Committee and Sunshine Coast Regional District). They are also linked with every community school in the district, the Alternative School, Waldorf School, Capilano University and School District 46. In addition the gardens have support from eco-education organizations throughout Cascadia. Besides hosting regular tours, classes, courses and workshops, the gardens promote eco-education in local media while stimulating dialogues about sustainable development and conservation between government bodies, educational groups and non-governmental organizations.
The project has been shared in a number of different types of media to inspire others to create similar educational environments in their own communities and affirm those who have already done so. This classroom is also a creation space for developing permaculture media, worksheets and photo tutorials to demonstrate permaculture techniques, strategies and principles all over the world.
At the Heart of the Gardens is a small permaculture education center. This is a distribution node for free educational material from the Heart Gardens and also from the different eco-organizations in my bioregion.
Working with Robyn Hume who is photographing the core collection of sacred food-medicine plants of the Coastal First Peoples will generate foundational photographs for use in all manner of future media.
This is the main map designed by Sijay of Onbeyond Metamedia.
The times listed are full sun times where the gardens are lit by direct sunlight.
AUGUST
1. Fragrant Path : dappled 8 - 11 am, full sun 12 - 6 pm
dapple = 3 hrs full sun = 6 hrs
2. Greeting Beds : full sun 8 - 1 pm
full sun = 6 hrs
3. Gumboot Cafe Gardens : dappled 5 - 7 pm full sun 4 - 5 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 1 hrs
4. Elfinstones Garden : dappled 6 - 7 pm
dappled = 1 hr
5. Berry Patch : dappled 10 - 11 am 11 - 6 pm
dappled = 1 hrs full sun = 7 pm
6. Elfinhome : dappled 10 - 11 am 11 - 6 pm
dappled = 1 hrs full sun = 7 pm
7. All Along the Wall : full sun 11 - 3 pm
full sun = 4 hrs
8. Berry Way : full sun 8 - 3 pm 4 - 6 pm
full sun = 9 hrs
9. Hugelkultur Bed : full sun 8 - 1 pm
full sun = 5 hrs
10. Vermiculture Gardens : dappled 10 - 11 am full sun 8 - 10 am
dappled = 1 hrs full sun = 2 hrs
11. Ancient Memorial : dappled 2 - 4 pm full sun 8 - 11 am
dappled = 2 hr full sun = 3 hrs
12. Dagoba : dappled sun 8 - 9 am 1 - 3 pm
dappled = 3 hrs
13. Fairy Orchard : dappled 2 - 4 pm full sun = 9 - 1
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 4 hours
14. Backdoor : dappled 2 - 3 pm 5 - 6 pm full sun 1 - 2 pm 3 - 5 pm
dappled = 1 hr full sun = 3 hrs
15. Outside Passage : 12 - 5 pm
full sun = 5 pm
16. Plant Path : dappled 2 - 3 pm 5 - 6 pm full sun 3 - 5 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 2 hrs
17. Inside Passage :
dappled 9 - 10 am
dappled = 1 hr
18. Sign Bed : dappled 1 - 2 pm full sun 10 - 1 pm
dappled = 1 hr full sun = 3 hrs
19. Post : dappled = 5 - 7 pm full sun 4 - 5 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 1 hrs
20. Back of the Boot : full sun 10 - 12 pm 1 - 4 pm
full sun = 5 hrs
21. Fanghorn : dappled 5 - 7 pm full sun 8 - 9 am 11 - 5 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 7 hrs
22. Left Field : dappled 9 - 10 am full sun 10 - 1 pm
dappled = 1 hr full sun = 3 hrs
23. Living Room : dappled 8 - 12 pm full sun 12 - 1 pm
dappled = 4 hrs full sun = 1 hrs
24. Center Field : dappled 11 - 3 pm full sun 3 - 5 pm
dappled = 4 hrs full sun = 2 hr
25. Right Field : dappled 9 - 10 am 12 - 1 pm full sun 10 - 12 pm 3 - 4 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 3 hr
26. Alabaster Terrace : dappled 8 - 9 am 2 - 6 pm full sun = 10 - 2 pm
dappled = 5 hr full sun = 4 hrs
27. Elphinstone Pass : dappled 8 am - 12 pm
dappled = 4 hrs
28. Dreamberry Lookout : dappled 9 - 10 am full sun 10 - 3 pm
dappled = 1 hr full sun = 5 hrs
29. Healing Path : dappled 8 am - 10 12 -1 pm full sun 10 - 12 1 - 4 pm
dappled = 3 hrs full sun = 5 hrs
30. Penglai Shan : dappled 8 - 10 am 1 - 3 pm full sun 12 - 2 pm
dappled = 3 hrs full sun = 2 hrs
31. Fairy Patch : dappled 3 - 4 pm 5 - 6 pm full sun 12 - 3 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 3 hrs
32. Emerald Mantle : dappled 12 - 4 pm
dappled = 4 hrs
33. Forest Floor :
34. Pangaia : dappled 1 -2 pm 3 - 5 pm full sun 2 - 3 pm
dappled = 3 hrs full sun = 1 pm
35. Pixie Parkette : dappled 3 - 5 pm full sun 2 - 3 pm
dappled = 2 hrs full sun = 1 pm
36. Inner Sanctum : shade only
37. Delvinhome : full sun 1 - 4 pm
full sun = 3 hrs
38. Nature's Medicine Bed : dappled 4 - 5 pm full sun 12 - 3 pm
dappled = 1 hr full sun = 3 hrs
39. Mama Gaia : full sun 10 - 4 pm
full sun = 6 hrs
40. Berry Path : full sun 10 am - 4 pm
full sun = 6 hrs
41. Rivendell : dappled 9 - 10 am 1 - 4 pm 7 - 8 pm full sun 10 - 1 pm 4 - 5 pm
dappled = 5 hr full sun = 4 hrs
42. Valinor : dappled 9 - 10 am 4 - 5 pm full sun 10 - 4 pm 7 - 8 pm
dapped = 2 hrs full sun = 7 hrs
Here is the Base map done by Steve Christian of Second Nature Designs.
With the design support from Jacob Aman of Gaiacraft these are some of the sector maps of the Heart Gardens.
Water including rain barrels.
Wind sectors.
Movement of people and animals through the property.
Noise sectors.
View sectors.
Water treatment sector.
Meet the Heart Garden animal citizens!
White Tailed Deer
Crow
Bald Eagle
Robin
Tree Frog
Salimander
Hummingbird
Bee
Monarch Butterfly
Black Bear
This is in process, as all maps are...
Heart Blossoms
February : Witches Hazel
March : False forget-me-not, magnolia, red and white flowering currant, indian plum, oregon grape
April : bog blueberry, indian plum, bleeding hearts, pink fawn lily
May : labrador tea, sweet woodruff, chocolate lily, gooseberry, blue camas, solomon's seal, apple and pear, miners lettuce, woodland strawberry
June : great white camas, creeping blackberry, cinquefoil, highbush cranberry, comfrey, coastal strawberry, lupin, hookers onion, nodding onion, marsh cinquefoil
July : black huckleberry, cooleys hedge nettle, yerba buena, thimbleberry, low bush cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, comfrey, mint, rose, hydrangea, california poppy, digitalis, plantain, purple eyed grass, apple, pear, elvish rose, tsi, wild bergomot, oregano, lavendar, yarrow, chives, catnip
August : mints, lemon balm, tiger lily, california poppy, comfrey, cooleys hedge nettle, sundew, wintergreen, motherwort, tsi, bergemot, oregano, hops, lavender, catnip, goldenrod, hyacinth, goji, everbearing rose
September : lemon balm, mint, chives, echanacea, thyme, hibiscus, ever bearing rose, pink meadowsweet, yarrow, blue hyacinth, catnip, mint, red clover, lemon balm, hibiscus, comfrey, hops, cooleys hedge nettle, pearly everlasting, sundew, hopi tobacco, elvish everbearing rose, geranium, tsi, oregano
October : California poppies, native sunflowers, oregano, clover, rose
December : Rose, snowberry
January : Snowberry, rose
Heart Fruit
June : woodland strawberries
July : red huckleberry, black huckleberry, currants (red, black, champaign), blueberry, blackberry, boisenberry, red elderberry, devil's club, salal
August : raspberry, champaign currant, boisenberry, apple, gummy gooseberry, serviceberry, high bush cranberry, huckleberry, black elderberry, blue elderberry, golden raspberry, red flowering currant, oregon grape (dull and tall), thimbleberry, mountain ash, apple, pear
September : raspberry, champaign currant, boisenberry, apple, gummy gooseberry, serviceberry, high bush cranberry, huckleberry, black elderberry, blue elderberry, golden raspberry, red flowering currant, oregon grape (dull and tall), thimbleberry, mountain ash,
October : loganberry, fall raspberry, red flowering currant
Heart Seed
July : sweet cicely, camas, lupin, red columbine, california poppy
August : phalaris
Here is the kids map made with Lunaya Shekinah.
