In 2005 I sat in conversation with a man who explained to me how and why the events of my life had taken place up until that point. The conversation lasted a couple of hours.

In 2008 I spent several hours on a mountainside and came away knowing the nature of reality.

In 2014 I attended a two-week PDC and came home feeling inspired.

In 2016 I started this permaculture diploma, after six years I discovered I just wanted to mooch about the woods looking for mushrooms and spotting birds.

Life often presents us with situations we do not expect. This is my story of a six-year journey along a pathway guided by a permaculture diploma.

I’m going to present this design in a way to help me figure out what the heck happened these past six years.

Forage: to search about; seek; rummage; hunt:

With this in mind, the permaculture framework I will be using for this design is FORAGE: Focus – Observe – Research – Apply – Gather – Evaluate.

The design tools to be used will be, PMI, SWOC analysis, Functions and Elements, and Mind Maps, along with the twelve permaculture principles and three permaculture ethics.