KICKSTART YOUR FARM THE RIGHT WAY AND PRODUCE ORGANIC-EVERYTHING FROM THE GET-GO, WITHOUT COSTLY MISTAKES THAT SET YOU BACK YEARS…

Let’s be honest, everyone has big permaculture plans when the season starts.

I’ll sort out the gardens, orchards, compost piles, earthworks, renovate that garage, build that greenhouse…

And you enthusiastically start all these different projects, all at the same time, stretching yourself thin, overworking and putting extreme pressure on yourself and your relationships.

Then, eventually, despite your best efforts, enthusiasm and goodwill things just don’t go as planned.

At some point, you start falling behind, overwhelmed by everything you still need to do, until you are forced to throw in the towel, saying: “well, that’ll just have to wait until next year!”

I know, in an ideal world, we would already have our fully-functioning permaculture farm or homestead.

…swales hydrating the landscape, food forests producing an abundance of fruits and nuts, soil teeming with life, gardens full of produce…

And the quicker we can get to that, the quicker we can enjoy the abundance, the freedom, the security, and the peace of mind. The math there is fairly simple…

But practically getting there, that’s a bit complicated because of that inconvenience known as life.

We all love farming, being outdoors and the agrarian lifestyle, it’s our calling. Ultimately, the dream is to have beyond-organically grown everything, long-term energy/food/financial independence and a farm that makes others go green (as it were) with envy …

The biggest challenge in achieving that is not necessarily having the money, but actually living a life: having a family, an off-farm job that pays bills, a social life… and then finding enough time left over to do anything substantial on the farm.

There’s simply not enough hours in the day, days in a week, weeks in a month to do everything that needs to be done in order to establish that permaculture farm or homestead in the timeline you were originally hoping for.

If you could only quit everything else and just devote your full time to the farm, obviously that would be the optimal solution, but then how would you pay the mortgage, still have your marriage and the kids around you, keep your social network…

The reality for most of us is that we’re developing our farms on our own, with our limited time and budget. The resources and manpower are always going to be scarce.

So how can you have a life and despite everything still achieve your big farming goals?

The answer lies in breaking the work up into manageable chunks, prioritizing, knowing WHAT to execute and WHEN, sticking to a pre-planned schedule, and being effective at what you do!

That’s the only way to realistically achieve what you want with what you have and speed up your farm development.

Because if you prioritise the wrong projects and miss out on important planting/management/maintenance/establishment deadlines, you fall behind and then have to wait for the next year!

Realistically, making progress with your farm development in today’s world is more crucial than ever before….

I personally feel that there isn’t that much time left for living the life we’re all used to today. It’s a gut feeling but one that’s backed up with a ton of research.

If you’re reading this you probably have that feeling as well. You can see that there are a lot of things wrong with our society and consequently there will be some major changes headed our way.

I think we can all agree they are coming sooner rather than later, and today there are many concerning developments that all point to a future that will look drastically different:   

I believe that your ability to weather the financial storm is in direct proportion to how many productive systems you have in place on your farm.

As Rob Avis would say the farm is your insurance, and acts as a hedge against whatever might be coming… especially in the age of economic and political upheaval, civil unrest, food supply disruptions, and mass unemployment.

To survive the next financial crisis, we need to become as self-sufficient as possible..ideally within a community of likeminded people.

This was always the case, and it will only be exacerbated in the coming age of pandemics. (Covid-19 was just the beginning – deforestation is still on the rise, increasing the human exposure to viruses and bacteria that can make cross-species jumps.)

We know this from our own lived-in experience in 2020:

Remember how supermarkets ran out of stuff when the pandemic hit?

If the lockdowns and border closures had continued unabated for a full year, two years, three… countries that are net-importers of food like Sweden, the UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Japan would have starved.

This year the entire world had a very rude awakening: there will come a time in the near future when you won’t be able to BUY food – no matter how much money you have.

Of course we permaculturists are way ahead of the “worry-curve”. Most of us have been worried about the food security of our families for years or even decades.

That’s why we got into permaculture.

That’s why we want that ecologically resilient homestead, that self-sufficient permaculture farm, that abundant food forest…

Now is the time to stop dreaming the dream and have something materialise from it.

Now I understand, it’s completely natural that in the face of all these challenges, feeling pressured by the limited time, most of us want to get things sorted out as quickly as possible.

As the days of the growing season start to count down to zero, the race is on, and there are nature’s deadlines and planting windows when things ought to be done.

But with a million things on your plate, it’s far too easy to get side-tracked and then do things at the last moment without any real plan, recklessly, in the name of just doing something, anything.

This is a recipe for a disaster… 

The chances are… by doing things in a hurry and not being prepared you’ve done a poor job that will entail further setbacks in the long run. 

The worst thing is, it could take several years until you find out that things won’t pan out the way you initially imagined. 

For example, suppose it’s September 30th.

You only have four weeks to plant bare-root trees, because, by November, the soil becomes too wet for planting. So you rush out and start digging some holes in the ground.

But in your hurry, you don’t realize that the holes were too deep, and once you planted your trees, you buried the tree’s graft union, completely overriding the desired rootstock effect of waterlogged soil resistance.

The problem is…

The week you planted your trees, everything is fine. The next week everything is fine. You don’t realize the mistake until a year later when you start to notice that your trees aren’t growing the way they should and start to look sickly and anemic.

You have thrown away your time, money and labor in vain and honestly, if you want to make a go at permaculture farming, you won’t get that many more chances. You have to make every year count.

Not just because you might be 60 and now you have only 10 more seasons left in life but also because, as I said above, the world economy, society, and environment may drastically change in the next year or so and then you’ll be forced to abandon your dream because there is no functioning farm to fall back on as your safety net.

So yes, we need to start getting things done but when you do something you want to do it right the first time, do it efficiently, build it to last and make sure that all the time, money and labor you’ve spent was worthwhile.

If you’re a permaculture farmer who is starting out with your farm development and long for practical guidance on implementation and a monthly calendar so you know exactly WHAT to do and WHEN, then you’re in the right place.

This is a system for farm owners who want to kickstart their farm development and achieve food security twice as fast and with less effort, without killing themselves from overwork, neglecting their family and always falling behind the schedule.

Because everyone wants a fully functioning permaculture farm yesterday, yet nobody wants to work themselves to death to get there.

With this system, you won’t be always late, falling behind, and doing a poor job of implementing things… eventually being forced to wait for the next year, and the next year, and the year after that…

Nobody likes setbacks, so why not implement your permaculture projects this year, the way they should be from the outset, and move faster to your ultimate goal of a permaculture abundance for you and your family?

Make this the year you stop dreaming the dream and something finally materialise from it!

PROGRAM STRUCTURE:

The program has 3 main components:   

• #1) YEARLY PLAN which outlines WHAT to do this year (and in which order) to kickstart your farm and ramp up your food production
• #2) PERMACULTURE IMPLEMENTATION CALENDAR which tells you exactly WHEN to do the WHAT, so that you never miss nature’s deadlines and can get the greatest yields for the inputs you invest by working with natural cycles (rather than flailing against them!)
• #3) IMPLEMENTATION PROTOCOLS AND GUIDES which explain HOW to do the WHAT. Written, printable, step-by-step instructions/spreadsheets/checklists for each of the tasks on the calendar. These are packaged as “quick-start” and “get ready” guides so that you can do things right the first time, without being overwhelmed by information.                                           

… plus! You get a bonus FARMER’S VAULT with an ever-growing database of useful farm setup resources.

Once you join you’ll receive immediate access to all of the programme materials. Then, no matter what time of the year it is you can start planning, using the calendar and its instructions and start implementing the practical steps that will put you on the road to the farm you’ve always dreamed of having.

Unlike other permaculture courses, the Permaculture Implementation Calendar always stays relevant. It’s not one of those one-off, “use it now or lose it” things. As the seasons keep changing you’ll be always planning the current and next year, implementing, maintaining, making optimal use of the available resources… 

To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing similar to this anywhere to be found on this planet, online or offline…

Here’s exactly how the PIC system works:

Click the video above to take a guided “VIP Tour” of Permaculture Implementation Calendar
Transcript | Slides

COMPONENT #1: YOUR YEARLY PLAN

– SAY GOODBYE TO ANALYSIS PARALYSIS, AND INSTANTLY KNOW WHAT TO PRIORITIZE WHEN DEVELOPING YOUR FARM –

“I need a strong plan with phases.”

We mapped out the exact yearly plan you should follow this year to kickstart your farm this year and ramp up your production every growing season thereafter.

Think of this as the game plan that shows you what route to take, what you need to prioritize, what projects to tackle first, and what to leave out. 

“How do I prioritise? I’m afraid of spending my time and money on things that aren’t that important, and wearing myself (and any help I get from friends and family) out. I want to make sure that what I do spend time (and money) on is worthwhile.” 

If you are stuck in analysis paralysis, this yearly plan can help you avoid common mistakes and prioritise projects that really bring in the yields.

For example, if you’ve just completed your PDC training this year and now the challenge is “What next? Which projects should I now start with?”, this plan is going to be the panacea to that headache.

Ever said to yourself “I need a strong plan with phases”? This is that plan.

The yearly plan is split into two categories, one for growing a food forest and one for growing annual gardens. And it showcases the stages or overall steps you need to take in establishing these systems, gives you the breakdown of tasks you could do in each stage, and pinpoints the timing for these stages and tasks.

Since we all deal with different variables, the plan will always be context-specific. That’s why I created a flowchart to help you decide where to actually start and what exactly to do.

The flowchart recommends a specific implementation protocol for each scenario you are faced with on the farm.

Speaking of protocols…

COMPONENT #2: YOUR FARM PROTOCOLS AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES

— EXECUTE PERMACULTURE PROJECTS CORRECTLY (EVEN IF YOU HAVE LITTLE TO NO FARMING OR GARDENING EXPERIENCE)—

“I need implementation instructions that are as simple as possible, and can get me from zero to functioning farm without fancy equipment costing thousands of dollars”

One of the challenges of Permaculture is that it straddles so many different disciplines, from biology, ecology, landscape design, agriculture, geology, to hydrology and others…and consequently there are extremely numerous & diverse skills required to launch a permaculture farm or homestead.

Nobody has time to learn everything they would like, or find interesting, or even find important, as that takes significant googling hours, studying permaculture literature and then trialing it in practice.

So when you start a new permaculture project, you often feel out of your depth and overwhelmed with everything the project entails.

The solution to this is to get a recipe for how to do something right, do it, and learn through that experience. This helps you avoid all the googling, studying, and eventually reinventing the wheel. You just study the task at hand instead of trying to learn everything just in case you need it one day.

In this section, you get these recipes, so to speak, that can help you overcome the lack of time, experience, and confidence. I’ll give you step-by-step guides on how to implement, so you have a guide to follow for each project and are able to execute the right steps the first time around.

Now let’s give you a whistle-stop-tour of what you’ll find in this section:

A) PROTOCOLS

First, we have Protocols. Think of these as “workflows” or standard operating procedures so that you know what to expect and the most efficient way to tackle a project.

… because why waste your resources on reinventing the wheel when you can learn the best practices and prepare in advance? 

Another way to think of these protocols is as a blueprint for achieving a specific goal. 

For example, let’s say you want to establish a food forest, and you are starting from scratch on raw land, and your plot is on a slope with eroding soil where runoff is an issue so you need to install swales to catch the rain. That’s your goal. And the blueprint (protocol) to achieve that goal would be: Food Forest with Swales Establishment Protocol.

Protocols for which projects exactly? 

In this edition of the PIC it’s all about growing food, so examples of protocols include yearly food forest maintenance, starting a garden from scratch, establishing a food forest with swales from scratch.

You get access to 7 different protocols, 2 about establishing an annual garden, and 5 about establishing a food forest:

• New garden protocol
• Existing garden protocol
• Food forest with swales establishment protocol (spring planting)
• Food forest with swales establishment protocol (fall planting)
• Food forest w/o swales establishment protocol (spring planting)
• Food forest w/o swales establishment protocol (fall planting)
• Food forest maintenance protocol

Notice that I give you protocols on not just how to establish food forests and annual gardens, but also to how to maintain them so that you can ramp up production year after year. 

These maintenance protocols allow you to identify maintenance tasks and monitor your farm system so that you’re always on top of everything and in due time.

…because if you can’t properly maintain what you started the passion turns into drudgery and ultimately becomes a burden… Plus, you know, the garden just dies. 😅 

How each protocol is structured: 

Each protocol maps out a set of specific tasks you need to do and the order in which you need to do them.

B) IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES

Second, we have Implementation Guides. Think of these as step-by-step instructions for a specific task. They outline the exact practical things you’ll need to do with your hands and give you clear instructions for it. 

You can print out these guides as paper documents or access them on your tablet or smartphone and use them as your reference, on- and offsite, both prior to starting and when doing the actual work.

Guides for which tasks exactly?

This edition of the PIC comes with 26 implementation guides covering all the tasks necessary to establish your gardens and food forests:

• General garden care
• Harvesting
• Planting
• Sow Green Manure Crops
• Plan the garden 
• Garden prep 
• Garden design
• Sheet mulching

In addition to that you’ll get access to Implementation Guides Library with ALL the implementation guides that I have created thus far, which expand implementation advice beyond the primary focus of this edition of the PIC.

How the implementation guides are structured:

The guides have introductory information explaining what the task is all about, giving you a better understanding about the task at hand.

They give you a checklist of what you’ll need for the task, the list of equipment/tools, and materials. And if applicable give you a direct link where to source things from the list.

I’ve also included, where I had some data, an estimated time required to perform the task so you have some sort of an idea about the time commitment.

Then you get the step-by-step how-to, no fluff, just straight-up practical instructions on what exactly to do with your hand and tools.  

This is condensed information sourced from multiple books, websites, podcasts, personal experience all boiled down to the most important bits of information.

Some guides will also have additional spreadsheets to help you with the planning and logistics of the tasks so in some cases there will be more to the guide than you see on the page.

These spreadsheets are easily integrated with your yearly plan, flowchart, and calendar, so that you can have a sort of a farm management dashboard where you have everything you manage in one spot.

I’ve also included additional resources such as videos, relevant books, articles, PDF’s you can dig into to further your knowledge about the task at hand.

No fancy equipment necessary!

Now, the best thing about these guides is that they show you the easiest way to do a task. 

Although I do outline how to do things in different ways based on the tools/equipment you might have, you don’t need any fancy equipment to implement what I’m teaching you here. I’ll always include the simplest way on how to implement something.

And if you at any time have any questions or need help with any of the steps or the implementation of the whole task, there is a discussion forum under each of these guides where you can leave your comment for me.

COMPONENT #3: YOUR MONTH-BY-MONTH PERMACULTURE CALENDAR

— ALWAYS BE PREPARED IN ADVANCE AND NEVER MISS OUT ON THE IMPORTANT PLANTING/MANAGEMENT/MAINTENANCE/ESTABLISHMENT TIMES OF THE YEAR—

“I need a calendar of events and reminders for what needs to happen to help with all the confusion that is constantly in my head…”

Compared to normal people we permaculture farmers tend to think differently about changing seasons.

Where ordinary people see yellow fallen leaves on the ground simply as a sign of fall coming, we on the other hand are reminded of a narrow window when certain farming tasks ought to be done.

The mind starts buzzing with thousands of thoughts, ideas, and to-do’s about getting plants, sowing seeds, planting, harvesting, improving the soil for the next season, preparing for winter… 

With so many competing things to do it’s far too easy to lose track of what you should be doing, when, and how. The chaos slowly creeps in and it starts to be a complete mess in the head.

Now imagine a different scenario…

You still have your thousands of thoughts, ideas, and to-do’s… BUT now you have a pre-planned schedule, a calendar for when each of the important farming tasks that you are focusing on should be performed. 

No matter how many competing tasks you might have, they would be anchored to specific weeks and months and you wouldn’t get overwhelmed so easily and miss out on any important deadlines. 

You simply follow the calendar for your climate zone and you know what to expect, when to start preparing, and what to focus your attention on and at what time. 

This month-by-month permaculture calendar forms the backbone of the programme. It comes in the form of an online and offline spreadsheet and printable PDF document where each of the important yearly permaculture tasks is mapped to the corresponding month.

BONUS: Permaculture Farmer’s Vault

— The farm setup resource center; your unfair advantage —

The farm setup resource center is the PIC logistics center. In there, you’ll find numerous resources to help you with the logistics of executing your projects, from farm setup working documents, worksheets that expand calendar functionality, lists of contacts and suppliers, various other databases…

I just finished creating a networking database of people who’ve opted into a private directory to find and be found by others. Here you can browse the directory and perhaps discover a like-minded permaculturist who is in your neighborhood, town, city, or region.

As I keep improving the programme, I’ll be adding new features and unique bonuses here!

HOW TO USE THIS SYSTEM

The learning flow of this program is to first go through a yearly plan lesson, then plug and play protocols and finally a yearly calendar.

Want to kickstart your farm and achieve food security… yesterday? 

Want to get an idea of how many years it would take to get the farm working (which right now is probably completely in the blue)? 

Want to know exactly WHAT to implement WHEN and HOW so you don’t waste your money and more importantly time on projects that won’t produce the yields you need? 

Then YOU are in the right place, and the Permaculture Implementation Calendar system is the answer to all your prayers… Read on…   

With this system you will be able to:

• Prioritize and plan your yearly farm year efficiently and realistically, so that the right things get done on time
• Know exactly WHAT to do (and HOW) when implementing your design and setting up your farm, so you never waste your limited time and actually have visible results to show for your efforts
• Identify WHEN is the best time do each permaculture project, so you can work with nature to speed up your development, rather than struggle against it

And you’ll avoid:

• Doing half-assed jobs just in the name of doing something
• Spreading yourself thin because you have too much on your plate
• Implementing things incorrectly, and having to ripping them out later
• Always being late and missing out on nature’s deadlines, having to wait for the next year, feeling defeated and ashamed that things are not going as fast as you would like…

Because now:

• You’ll be ready months in advance, reminded in due time and eagerly waiting to smash that project on the first try
• You’ll break the work down into manageable chunks and keep on task (instead of tackling several things at once and failing to complete any of them)   
• You’ll execute everything on time, speed up your farm’s development, and finally feel satisfied with the progress you’re making

And you’ll be able to do all this WITHOUT:

• Hundreds of unpaid interns
• Fancy farm equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars
• Ideal farming conditions (climate, soils, water, terrain..)

This system will work for you EVEN IF:

• You have limited farming/gardening experience
• You feel overwhelmed with everything you need to do
• You and your partner are both currently working full time jobs away from home and only really have weekends to spare at this stage

Make this the year you stop dreaming the dream, and finally have something materialise from it!

This is NOT for you if…

• You don’t own any land and you’re learning just in case.
• You’re content to take it slow and just go with the flow.
• You’re not an action-taker willing to put in the physical work to establish the farm.

But, if you’re ready to put your money where your mouth is, get dirty and make all your friends go green with envy…

And you eagerly away the day when you no longer need to buy food from the store – you dream of fully organically grown everything and long term energy independence… 

Well, then you are in the right place at JUST the right time.

You can join the programme for 5 installments of $47 (or pay $197 in full and save 20%)

If you break down the cost to a year, that’s $0.50 per day, and you get something that you’ll be using year, after year, after year. 

Now ask yourself these hard questions (because our lives only change when we face tough choices head on):

• Would you rather simplify your life and your farm projects… or be constantly stressed out because there is too much on your plate?

• Would you rather do the essential few “must-do” tasks and get your farm established this year… or try to do EVERYTHING and waste the next 5 years without seeing any visible progress?

• Would you rather implement relevant and timely permaculture techniques that are suitable to your climate… or miss natural deadlines, use the wrong techniques and implement outside of your climate context?

Because that’s what it all boils down to: CHOICES.

If all this product does is to give you that clarity of work…

…or get you from an overwhelmed enthusiast to the proud owner of an established farm that is visibly making progress each month,

…or finally allow you to break free from the vicious cycle of planning the work but failing to implement the plan because you’re constantly taking on too much,

…then would you say that 50 cents a day is a small price to pay… It’s almost insignificant really.

If this is the life you wish to choose for yourself, then grab your seat in the Permaculture Implementation Calendar before enrollment closes on [09 Oct 2020]!

Your dream permaculture farm is 2 clicks away. Buy the PIC system now, try it within the next 30 days, and see your property transform right in front of your eyes. OR I will give you your money back.