Flow Charts are a visualization tool in permaculture used to map out processes, resource flows, or decision-making pathways within a system. By illustrating how energy, materials, or actions move from one element to another, this method helps:

  • Identify inefficiencies or bottlenecks.
  • Optimize resource use and minimize waste.
  • Simplify complex systems into clear, actionable steps.

Flow Charts provide clarity and structure, making them invaluable for designing, analyzing, and improving permaculture projects.

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Beyond Buckthorns wood resilience coppicing

Wood resilience at Beyond Buckthorns

by Lumia
on
at Lumia's diploma

Regenerative woodland management design at Beyond Buckthorns. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 5/10.

Introducing the Jean-Luc - the biogas digester at Beyond Buckthorns

Introducing the Jean-Luc

by Nick
on
at Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design

Since I got dropped into biogas, working with Prof. TH Culhane on different biogas projects, I always wanted to have a biogas system on my own. When I came to Finland I finally got the space to build a biogas digester and then actually experiment… more

A shed at Beyond Buckthorns

The Biogas Shed

by Nick
on
at Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design

It is 2017 and my parents were on holidays at Beyond Buckthorns and they told me during a walk that something needs to be done with one of the sheds, especially with the color of the walls, which was already coming off. A confession: the color of… more