PASTE is a permaculture tool used to evaluate and categorize the resources available on a site. It stands for:
- Plants: Vegetation already present, including trees, shrubs, and crops.
- Animals: Wildlife, domestic animals, or pests.
- Structures: Existing buildings, fences, and other constructions.
- Tools: Equipment and technologies available for use.
- Events: Natural or human-induced occurrences, such as seasonal changes, floods, or festivals.
By assessing these elements, PASTE provides a comprehensive picture of what a site has to offer, enabling designers to integrate existing resources effectively into sustainable and regenerative systems.
Articles tagged with PASTE
Food forest at Beyond Buckthorns
This design is about curating a food forest at Beyond Buckthorns into an area which has been a garden in the past but has since grown pretty wild, located in Zones 2 and 3. The design aims to increase biodiversity, get yields and enable teaching… more
Wood resilience at Beyond Buckthorns
Regenerative woodland management design at Beyond Buckthorns. Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais' Diploma Design 5/10.
Catching the rain
At Beyond Buckthorns we have our own well. It is 12 – 13 meters deep and is connected to a pump that starts when there is demand. Well water is our drinking and washing water. In 2017 we got hit by 2 droughts. Both together made it necessary to… more
Ritvas Permaculture Garden
Designing a permaculture garden for a friend of mine in Finland was fun. I appreciated been given that opportunity. Read about the entire Permaculture design process using Looby's design web.
The Biogas Shed
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