Alaska Permaculture Design Course, Fall 2012

Day 4 

Permaculture Design Course 

Ageya 

Homer 

Sun beamed through the canopy of tall spruce trees for a few hours today.  We took the opportunity to go outside and practice our new skills of map making.  How do you make a map without measuring every single tree?  Well, Rico taught us how to do it.  You can see that we were having a lot of fun.  

 

Bryant

 Rico explaining how to pick the best spot to measure to Bryant, Sonja and BJ

 Measure the chicken coop?  Really?

Terri and Connie

 

Let's try out the laser beam measurer-----a little higher----a little left!

Bridget and Michael 

Lora

 

BJ:  This is our base point tree.

 

How helpful that long cloth tape measure was.  Thanks, Sonja. 

 What are we doing again?   Terri and Connie

 Sonja, Michael and Bridget:  which tape is better?

 BJ, the expert converter:  metric vs. inches.

 Rico explains sector mapping.

Devta, Sonja, Michael and BJ listening intently.