Day 7 Course Outline - Trees and Forests

Trees and forests

• energy transactions, photosynthesis
• forests and rainfall o forests and wind
• light and heat

Design

• different types of resources
• design as a system - entity and relationship mapping
• emergence, growth and feedback loops
• purpose and function
• thinking and working at scale

Trees and wind

• planting strategies and patterns
• shelterbelt and hedges

Cultivating in climate zones

• creating microclimate – food forests

Lunch

Branching patterns

• observation
• range and function
• transfer systems
• orders of form in rivers and sand dunes

Woodland and cultivation

• In tropics & In temperate climates
• nitrogen fixers – food crops – planting patterns 
• sylvan polycultures – forest garden as a pattern
• management, nutrient cycling, mulch composting,
• woodland composting Jean Pain method hugel mounds