Heritage Harvest · Permaculture Design
Nothing is wasted.
Everything feeds something.
Everything feeds something.
A working map of our farm’s closed-loop systems — tap any element to see what flows in, and where every output goes.
Primary flow
Secondary / occasional
Direction of output
Tap any system to explore its flows
Each node shows what the system needs, what it produces, and where those outputs travel — building the closed loop that makes a permaculture farm regenerative rather than extractive.
Farm Economy
CSA Program — the economic hub
What it needs
- Livestock & produce from all systems
- Labor — interns, volunteers, us
- Community relationships
What it produces
- Money back into the farm
- Community garden partnerships
- Education & internships
Where it goes
- Back into every farm system
- St. Lukes & Rob Peters Gardens
- Teaching / coaching / consulting
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Woodland Systems
The woodlands give more than wood
What it needs
- Selective cutting by Pascal & Angie
- Cows opening up the forest floor
- Pigs disturbing & replanting seeds
What it produces
- Fuel wood & building timber
- Wild edibles — mushrooms, leeks, berries
- Maple syrup & crafting materials
Where it goes
- Heat, cooking, smoking
- Us, animals, medicine, tea
- CSA, posts & barns, fencing
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Growing Systems
Garden — the production core
What it needs
- Saved seeds & transplants
- Animal manure & compost
- Water catchment & bee pollination
What it produces
- Produce & food for CSA
- Saved seed stock
- Improved soil year on year
Where it goes
- CSA members & ourselves
- Next season’s planting
- Back to the land — permanent gain
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Protected Growing
Greenhouse — year-round buffer
What it needs
- Water catchment off roof
- Saved seeds + some purchased
- Wood stove & underground heat
What it produces
- Seedlings for garden & community
- Aquaponics space — food & fish
- Winter chicken coop & warmth
Where it goes
- CSA, community garden, sell extras
- Us & CSA
- Chickens through the cold months
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Poultry Systems
Laying hens — a near-perfect loop
What it needs
- Pasture, compost, veggie scraps
- Water catchment off roof
- Dead leaves, straw, hay bedding
What it produces
- Eggs for CSA
- Manure & fertiliser
- Labor — scratching down cow manure
Where it goes
- CSA customers
- Directly onto fields
- Back to the garden soil
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Swine Systems
Pigs — the land workers
What it needs
- Pasture, forest scraps, wild apples
- Water catchment
- Cedar huts built off the land
What it produces
- Clear & till fields — no machinery
- Meat & lard for CSA
- Fertilise land behind them
Where it goes
- Areas cleared for new pasture
- CSA members
- Forest & pasture regeneration
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Bovine Systems
Cows — fertility engine
What it needs
- Our hay fields
- Water catchment off buildings
- Cedar sheds & existing rail fences
What it produces
- Meat & milk for CSA
- Manure back to fields & chickens
- Labor — grass clipped, areas mowed
Where it goes
- CSA members
- Fields & chicken larvae food
- Lawn & hard-to-cut areas
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Turkey Systems
Turkeys — the corner that found its purpose
What it needs
- Purchased grain & catchment water
- Odd pasture not useable elsewhere
- Moveable tractor shelters
What it produces
- Meat & feathers for CSA & craft
- Fertiliser & pest control in garden
- Water catchment off building
Where it goes
- CSA & sell/craft
- Back onto fields, into garden beds
- Back to turkeys
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Apiary
Honey bees — the quiet multiplier
What it needs
- Hives we already had
- Extractor & smoker on hand
- Winter insulation & feed
What it produces
- Honey — food & medicine
- Beeswax — candles, salves, to sell
- Pollination lifting yield of everything
Where it goes
- CSA, sell, ourselves
- Us, sell, CSA
- Fruit, veg, pasture — everything
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Meat Bird Systems
Meat birds — efficient converters
What it needs
- Water catchment
- Pasture & chicken tractors
- Boxes & heat lamps
What it produces
- Meat for CSA
- Dog food — feet, heads, livers
- Compost — feathers & scraps
Where it goes
- CSA members
- Snowball the farm dog
- Back to garden & chickens to scratch
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Water Systems
Water catchment — the quiet backbone
What it needs
- Rain off every roof
- Well & natural sources
- Gravity distribution where possible
What it produces
- Drinking water for all animals
- Irrigation for garden & greenhouse
- Water back to ponds & clay areas
Where it goes
- Every living system on the farm
- CSA-quality produce
- Animal watering & clay work
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