Production
Shot list
Every image and video the course is still missing. Each placeholder in the lessons points at one of these. When a shot is taken, put the file at /course/img/<slug>.jpg or /course/video/<slug>.mp4 and swap the placeholder in the lesson.
Images to take
| Slug | What is in frame | Lesson | Part |
|---|---|---|---|
why-course-february-shelf | The February pantry: grain sacks, jars, potatoes and root vegetables on a shelf, wide shot that shows what is actually stored | Why This Course Exists | Orientation |
why-course-pdc-vs-grain | A stack of PDC workbooks and a certificate on a table beside a sack of wheat, a single frame that makes the contrast visible | Why This Course Exists | Orientation |
how-course-offline-build | The offline Rust build open on a laptop with the wifi switched off, showing a lesson and the source list on screen | How This Course Works | Orientation |
how-course-field-journal | A worn field notebook open on a bench beside a pencil and a seed packet, close framing that shows the handwritten daily lines | How This Course Works | Orientation |
pdc-cost-ledger | A handwritten ledger page comparing a course fee against the bulk price of wheat, one column each | What a PDC Actually Is | Orientation |
pdc-certificate-vs-wheat | A PDC certificate on a table beside a sack of wheat and a set of scales, single frame | What a PDC Actually Is | Orientation |
three-frames-pantry | The pantry again, this time framed as the answer to frame one, wide shot with the shelves legible | Three Frames: Subsistence, Anti-Capitalism, Solarpunk | Orientation |
three-frames-solar | The solar array and the rain tanks in afternoon light, framed as the solarpunk frame, wide shot | Three Frames: Subsistence, Anti-Capitalism, Solarpunk | Orientation |
wpd-mollison-hobart | The footslopes of Mount Wellington above Hobart, south-east Tasmania, wide framing, to show the "edge between civilisation and wilderness" where the word was coined | What Permaculture Is | The Basics of Permaculture |
wpd-source-stack | A bench with the actual books and texts open: Cato and Varro side by side with Permaculture One and the Designers' Manual, showing that the older pages predate the newer | What Permaculture Is | The Basics of Permaculture |
te-pelman-740 | Pelman's 740 square metre plot in the western Galilee from a standing viewpoint, showing wheat, fava, and olives on ground the size of two tennis courts | The Three Ethics | The Basics of Permaculture |
te-three-numbers | Chalkboard or paper on a kitchen wall with the three fair-share numbers filled in, unposed, close framing | The Three Ethics | The Basics of Permaculture |
dp-quincunx-block | A planted block laid out on a quincunx, marked with string lines from two corners, wide framing to show equal spacing for light | The Design Principles | The Basics of Permaculture |
dp-vines-and-trees | Vines growing up standing trees on a farm boundary, showing integration rather than separate plots | The Design Principles | The Basics of Permaculture |
dp-source-shelf | The principle list on paper with Cato, Varro, and Columella open beside it, so each principle has a visible ancestor | The Design Principles | The Basics of Permaculture |
osa-slope-clinometer | Two stakes and a string with a level marking percent slope on a hillside, close framing on the angle | Observation and Site Analysis | The Basics of Permaculture |
osa-rain-walk | Water sheeting and cutting a rill down a bare slope during heavy rain, mid-shot, showing where the flow gathers | Observation and Site Analysis | The Basics of Permaculture |
osa-jar-soil-test | Two labelled jars settled overnight, sand, silt, and clay bands visible against a ruler, topsoil beside subsoil | Observation and Site Analysis | The Basics of Permaculture |
cm-frost-pocket | Frost lying white in a hollow while the slope above is clear, wide framing at first light, proving cold air pools low | Climate and Microclimate | The Basics of Permaculture |
cm-south-slope-melt | A south-facing slope thawed and dry while the north face beside it holds snow, showing aspect at work | Climate and Microclimate | The Basics of Permaculture |
cm-thermal-mass-wall | A stone wall with a bed on the sunny side, shot late on a cold afternoon to show stored heat | Climate and Microclimate | The Basics of Permaculture |
wil-swale-first-rain | A freshly cut level swale with water standing in the trough after the first hard rain, wide framing to show the bank downhill | Water in the Landscape | The Basics of Permaculture |
wil-contour-staking | An A-frame marking a contour line across a slope, stakes in line, hands and string visible | Water in the Landscape | The Basics of Permaculture |
wil-roof-catchment | Downspouts running to a tank or a planted basin instead of the road, shot during rain to show the flow | Water in the Landscape | The Basics of Permaculture |
soil-ribbon-test | A hand squeezing a moist ribbon of soil between thumb and forefinger with a tape measure beside it on a board | Soil | The Basics of Permaculture |
soil-manure-heap | A covered manure heap under brush or a tarp with a compost thermometer probe showing the hot centre | Soil | The Basics of Permaculture |
soil-nodule-check | Legume roots washed clean with pink nodules beside a root with white nodules, as the free nitrogen check | Soil | The Basics of Permaculture |
polyculture-cabbage-vine | A cabbage and a vine growing close together at a bed edge, the vine shoot leaning away, framed to show the gap | Plants, Polyculture and Guilds | The Basics of Permaculture |
polyculture-guild-section | A labelled cross-section drawing pinned to a shed wall showing a guild's five layers and each species' rooting depth | Plants, Polyculture and Guilds | The Basics of Permaculture |
polyculture-strip-plan | Four marked strips of equal size side by side in a garden, three single species and one mixture, each staked | Plants, Polyculture and Guilds | The Basics of Permaculture |
animal-poultry-house-dimensions | A small hen house with a tape measure held against the wall and the window, demonstrating a working flock house | Animals in the System | The Basics of Permaculture |
animal-dung-economy | A covered manure heap being turned, straw layers visible, with a pitchfork in the side and hens foraging at the edge | Animals in the System | The Basics of Permaculture |
animal-feed-ledger | A one-page feed ledger pinned in a shed, feed and output columns totalled by month, with the February row circled | Animals in the System | The Basics of Permaculture |
zones-sector-compass | A site plan with zone bands over the real boundary and sector arrows labelled with compass bearings | Zones, Sectors and the Design Process | The Basics of Permaculture |
zones-worked-plan | The half-acre worked layout to scale, garden, food forest, staple strips, hedge, tank and access labelled | Zones, Sectors and the Design Process | The Basics of Permaculture |
zones-paradise-plan | An ordered planting of straight rows at equal intervals seen from above, showing measured regularity | Zones, Sectors and the Design Process | The Basics of Permaculture |
structures-salvage-pile | A sorted salvage pile in a barn bay: windows stacked upright, roofing sheets, and de-nailed timber, banded by size | Structures and Appropriate Technology | The Basics of Permaculture |
structures-solar-wall | A south-facing wall with the winter sun striking it and its shadow line marked on the ground at midday | Structures and Appropriate Technology | The Basics of Permaculture |
structures-granary-floor | A finished grain store floor and a north-side vent with its shutter open, grain bins empty and swept | Structures and Appropriate Technology | The Basics of Permaculture |
yield-surplus-store | A cellar shelf holding the season's surplus in jars and sacks, each labelled with the date it was put up | What Yield Actually Means | The Basics of Permaculture |
yield-ledger-hours | A field journal open to a two-column page, weights harvested and hours worked, with a running total | What Yield Actually Means | The Basics of Permaculture |
yield-cellar-march | The same cellar shelf in March, showing what is left and what has gone, so the lean-season gap is visible | What Yield Actually Means | The Basics of Permaculture |
provenance-card-01 | A hand-written index card naming a technique, its oldest source and the date, on a bench with a seed packet beside it | The Deep History of Agriculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
shuruppak-lines | The field-management lines of the Instructions of Shuruppak on screen or in a book, cropped close enough to read | The Deep History of Agriculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
salinity-hole-test | A spade-deep hole filled with water in a low corner of the field, with a tape or stick showing the water level | Mesopotamia and the First Salinization | Where These Ideas Come From |
salt-crust | A dried waterline or salt crust on bare soil or on the rim of a pot of evaporated irrigation water, close enough to see the white deposit | Mesopotamia and the First Salinization | Where These Ideas Come From |
hesiod-plough | An animal-drawn or hand plough with its parts labelled in frame, beside the wood it is cut from, proving the plough-tree material | Hesiod, Xenophon and the Greek Farm | Where These Ideas Come From |
neighbour-soil | Two fields side by side over a fence, one clearly thriving and one not, framed so the soil boundary is visible | Hesiod, Xenophon and the Greek Farm | Where These Ideas Come From |
two-bay-compost | Two adjacent compost bays, one holding fresh dung and bedding and one holding finished black compost, with a cover, showing the moisture-retaining slope | Cato, Varro, Columella and the Roman Farm | Where These Ideas Come From |
olive-proverb-board | A hand-lettered board carrying Columella's proverb about ploughing, manuring and lopping the olive, hanging in the tool shed | Cato, Varro, Columella and the Roman Farm | Where These Ideas Come From |
theophrastus-page | Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants open to a page on propagation, with a seedling in the foreground | Pliny, Theophrastus and the First Natural History | Where These Ideas Come From |
naturalist-page | A field notebook page for one plant, leaf sketch and weekly entries visible, held beside the living plant | Pliny, Theophrastus and the First Natural History | Where These Ideas Come From |
geoponica-open | The Geoponica open to the chapter on manure, with a compost heap behind it | The Geoponica and Byzantine Farming | Where These Ideas Come From |
shivta-runoff | Dry-stone water channels on a desert slope, or a diagram of runoff agriculture, showing how scarce rain is captured | The Geoponica and Byzantine Farming | Where These Ideas Come From |
varahamihira-page | The tree-treatment chapter of the Brihat Samhita on screen or in print, with a fig or vine cutting beside it | The Arabic Agricultural Revolution | Where These Ideas Come From |
tree-spacing | Two fruit trees at visibly different spacings, with a tape or the interlocking roots visible, showing the crowding the text warns against | The Arabic Agricultural Revolution | Where These Ideas Come From |
capitulare-garden | A garden laid out to the Capitulare's plant list, with labelled herbs, a fruit tree row and a fishpond in frame | Medieval European Husbandry | Where These Ideas Come From |
dung-heap-straw | Dung mixed with straw and chaff in a heap before spreading, with a fork and the field behind | Medieval European Husbandry | Where These Ideas Come From |
three-field-strips | Open-field strips or a rotation diagram showing winter grain, spring grain and fallow with livestock grazing the fallow | Medieval European Husbandry | Where These Ideas Come From |
crescenzi-1471-page | The 1471 Latin Liber Ruralium Commodorum open at the water chapter, page flat to the camera and filling the frame | Crescenzi and the Italian Villa | Where These Ideas Come From |
crescenzi-water-grade | A hand level or A-frame set on a ditch, showing the fall Crescenzi specifies of a foot and a half over 60 to 100 feet | Crescenzi and the Italian Villa | Where These Ideas Come From |
crescenzi-willow-bower | A living willow lattice fence or a trained bower on the farm, wide shot, late afternoon light | Crescenzi and the Italian Villa | Where These Ideas Come From |
andeneria-section | A cutaway diagram or a real sectioned bank showing the Andean stack, wall foundation about one metre deep, stone, sand and topsoil, each about a metre | Terracing in the Highlands | Where These Ideas Come From |
waru-waru-canals | Raised beds between water channels, either reconstructed at Lake Titicaca or a farm reproduction, water visible | Terracing in the Highlands | Where These Ideas Come From |
fanya-juu-ditch | A freshly dug fanya juu ditch on the contour with the soil thrown uphill and stake lines still in place | Terracing in the Highlands | Where These Ideas Come From |
ifugao-terraces | A terraced hillside with water visibly passing from one paddy to the next, wide framing that shows the stair | Terracing in the Highlands | Where These Ideas Come From |
qanat-section | A cutaway diagram of a qanat showing the gently sloping tunnel and the vertical access shafts, drawn large enough to read | Water Harvesting in the Drylands | Where These Ideas Come From |
nabataean-conduit | A reconstructed Negev runoff farm or a channel running diagonally along a slope, showing the catchment feeding the field | Water Harvesting in the Drylands | Where These Ideas Come From |
zai-pits | A row of zai planting pits filled with compost on crusted soil, hand for scale | Water Harvesting in the Drylands | Where These Ideas Come From |
demi-lune-tree | A half-moon bund around a young tree with the opening facing uphill, water pooled from the last rain if possible | Water Harvesting in the Drylands | Where These Ideas Come From |
milpa-three-crops | A working milpa showing maize, climbing beans and squash in the same field, wide framing that shows the layering | The Milpa and American Polyculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
nixtamal | Dried maize simmering with lime, then the rinsed grain with the skins slipping, close on the pot | The Milpa and American Polyculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
eac-seeds | Goosefoot, sunflower and marsh elder seed next to a ruler, showing the seed size archaeology measures | The Milpa and American Polyculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
ler-strips | Four measured strips on the farm, three monocultures and one intercrop, marked so the harvest can be weighed by strip | The Milpa and American Polyculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
shared-pasture | A community pasture with livestock from more than one household grazing, wide framing showing the absence of fences | The Commons and Traditional Knowledge | Where These Ideas Come From |
irrigation-roster | A channel head with a roster or a gate showing turns taken by named households, close and legible | The Commons and Traditional Knowledge | Where These Ideas Come From |
swidden-plots | Scattered garden plots in woodland rather than one fenced field, aerial or high vantage if possible | The Commons and Traditional Knowledge | Where These Ideas Come From |
ostrom-card | Ostrom's eight principles printed on one card, laid on a table beside the learner's own written rules | The Commons and Traditional Knowledge | Where These Ideas Come From |
indore-compost | A compost heap built to the Indore pattern, plant and animal waste layered, turning in progress, wide and in full sun | The Alternative Agriculture Lineage | Where These Ideas Come From |
rodale-strips | Three side-by-side cropping strips labelled by system, photographed from the same spot each season for three years | The Alternative Agriculture Lineage | Where These Ideas Come From |
cuba-organoponico | Urban or peri-urban food production in raised beds or containers, framing that shows scale | The Alternative Agriculture Lineage | Where These Ideas Come From |
fukuoka-citrus | An untilled citrus grove grown without herbicide, with the ground cover visible between the trees | The Alternative Agriculture Lineage | Where These Ideas Come From |
dust-bowl-storm | A 1930s dust storm sequence or a modern re-enactment, the wall of black dirt and a farmstead it is about to hit | What Did Not Work | Where These Ideas Come From |
lumper-potatoes | The Lumper or a related Irish potato variety in the ground, one row, showing the uniformity that failed | What Did Not Work | Where These Ideas Come From |
maya-stela | A Maya monument with a date on it, framed so the inscription is legible, the kind of dated object that stops appearing in the Terminal Classic | What Did Not Work | Where These Ideas Come From |
easter-island-moai | A moai on a treeless slope, wide framing that shows the bare ground around it | What Did Not Work | Where These Ideas Come From |
technique-provenance-card | A handwritten provenance card taped to a tool or a shed wall, listing technique, oldest named source, place and failure mode | The Attribution Problem | Where These Ideas Come From |
shuruppak-tablet | A photograph or a clean reproduction of the Instructions of Shuruppak tablet, framed so the cuneiform is visible | The Attribution Problem | Where These Ideas Come From |
milpa-attributed | A working milpa photographed with the farmer's name and community credited in the caption, wide framing | The Attribution Problem | Where These Ideas Come From |
free-course-page | The lesson page on screen and open, no paywall, next to the same technique priced on a paid course site | The Attribution Problem | Where These Ideas Come From |
subsistence-blocks | A whole small holding from a high corner, with the staple block and the garden both in frame, wide shot that shows the proportion of one to the other | What a Subsistence System Is | Subsistence First |
staple-block-wheat | Standing dry wheat or another grain in the staple block, close enough to see the heads; this is the crop that carries the calories | What a Subsistence System Is | Subsistence First |
pantry-baskets | Three baskets or jars on a table, one grain, one legume, one oil, shot from above, so the three calorie sources sit side by side | The Subsistence Equation | Subsistence First |
wheat-kilo | One kilogram of wheat on a kitchen scale, for the calories-per-kilogram conversion the lesson uses | The Subsistence Equation | Subsistence First |
fat-gap-chart | The household's three budgets, calories, protein and fat, drawn as three bars, the fat bar visibly short of the line | The Subsistence Equation | Subsistence First |
ten-thousand-plan | A 10,000 square foot layout drawn to scale on graph paper, garden, propagation, grain, legume, oil block and paths all labelled | The Ten Thousand Square Foot Food System | Subsistence First |
staple-block-pace | Pacing out the staple block on real ground with a tape, wide shot showing how much of the holding the field crop takes | The Ten Thousand Square Foot Food System | Subsistence First |
store-corner | The cool dry store corner, raised floor, tight wall and a high vent, empty and ready | The Ten Thousand Square Foot Food System | Subsistence First |
triad-harvest | Wheat, dry fava beans and a bottle of oil on a table together, the three members of the triad in one frame | The Staple Triad: Grain, Legume, Oil | Subsistence First |
legume-nodules | Fava or bean roots pulled and washed to show the pink nitrogen nodules, close up, proving the fixation the rotation depends on | The Staple Triad: Grain, Legume, Oil | Subsistence First |
seed-store-jars | Jars of saved grain and legume seed on a shelf, labelled by year, showing the store the triad fills | The Staple Triad: Grain, Legume, Oil | Subsistence First |
grain-heads-ripe | Ripe grain heads close up, wheat or oats or rye, the crop that carries the calories | Grains Without Guilt | Subsistence First |
grain-under-olive | Grain growing right up under an olive or nut tree canopy, showing the intercropping the mechanised farm cannot do | Grains Without Guilt | Subsistence First |
thrash-weight | Threshing and weighing one small grain block, cleaning the seed on a sheet, showing the yield measurement process | Grains Without Guilt | Subsistence First |
garden-quarters-planted | The four quarter garden, one quarter freshly planted, three quarters in different families, showing the rotation in one frame | Vegetables and the Hundred Square Metres | Subsistence First |
forty-varieties | A harvest basket with many different vegetables in it, to show the breadth of varieties that carries the micronutrients | Vegetables and the Hundred Square Metres | Subsistence First |
seed-saving-tray | Seed heads drying and being cleaned for saving on site, labelled by variety and year | Vegetables and the Hundred Square Metres | Subsistence First |
flock-orchard | A small flock working through an orchard or bed after harvest, foraging, in frame with the trees they clean under | Animals at Household Scale | Subsistence First |
goat-browse | A goat on rough browse or brush, the marginal ground that nothing else will turn into food | Animals at Household Scale | Subsistence First |
rabbit-manure | Rabbit hutches over a collection tray, the manure ready for the bed, close enough to see the pellets | Animals at Household Scale | Subsistence First |
preservation-root-cellar-01 | The farm's root cellar door open on a January morning, frost on the ground above and packed sand boxes inside | Preservation and Storage Without Fossil Energy | Subsistence First |
preservation-ferment-bucket-01 | A five-gallon fermentation bucket with a stone weight and plate holding cabbage under brine, cutaway framing | Preservation and Storage Without Fossil Energy | Subsistence First |
preservation-drying-racks | A sun drying rack of shredded cabbage under cheesecloth, shot through the cloth to show the layer depth | Preservation and Storage Without Fossil Energy | Subsistence First |
work-scythe-01 | Cutting a standing grain strip with a scythe, side-on framing, sweat and stubble both in shot | Tools and the Honest Hours | Subsistence First |
work-hand-tools | The farm's working hand tools laid out on a board, edges and handles, each with its wear visible | Tools and the Honest Hours | Subsistence First |
accounting-grain-scale | A kitchen scale weighing a pound of threshed wheat next to a measuring jug, both in the same frame for the bushel-to-pound point | Calorie and Yield Accounting | Subsistence First |
accounting-crop-file | A screen shot of the crop data file with the wheat row highlighted, calories, yield, seed reserve and labour hours all visible | Calorie and Yield Accounting | Subsistence First |
fat-olive-press | The community olive press running, jars filling, olives in heaps waiting their turn, wide vertical framing | Carrying Capacity and the Fat Problem | Subsistence First |
fat-nut-compare | A pound of wheat beside a pound of hazelnuts on the same scale, with the fat difference the subject of the shot | Carrying Capacity and the Fat Problem | Subsistence First |
resilience-hedgerow | A hedgerow of hazel and fruit species along a field edge, the second food system the field edge already is | Resilience, Failure and Redundancy | Subsistence First |
resilience-two-ploughs | Two working hand ploughs leaning together in the barn, both with worn shares, side by side | Resilience, Failure and Redundancy | Subsistence First |
sufficiency-surplus-table | A kitchen table with the year's surplus laid out for sale, jars and sacks, priced by hand | Sufficiency and the Fair Price | Subsistence First |
sufficiency-store-first | The two-year store full, and a single crate of surplus beside it marked for market | Sufficiency and the Fair Price | Subsistence First |
pyramid-tier-ladder | Four labelled cards on a table, student, teacher, certifying body, body that trains teachers, with the payment arrows drawn between them | The Pyramid | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
pyramid-72-hours | A wall chart of a 72 hour course timetable with the design exercise block circled | The Pyramid | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
enclosure-ridge-and-furrow | Surviving ridge and furrow in a pasture, shot low and raking, showing the old open-field ploughing under grass | Enclosure | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
enclosure-plat-map | A county plat map on a table with one parcel marked, next to its current assessed value | Enclosure | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
land-access-price-sheet | A county assessor's recent-sales printout on a table with the price-per-cultivated-acre column written in by hand | The Land Access Crisis | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
land-access-plat-boundary | A corner post on a fenced parcel with the county plat map in frame, showing the line the deed draws and the land does not | The Land Access Crisis | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
influencer-ledger-vs-video | A production ledger open beside a phone showing a farming video, both in the same frame, with the loss column of the ledger legible | The Influencer Economy | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
influencer-shop-shelf | The farm shop shelf as it is, one seed line and one book, with the rest of the seed list marked coming soon | The Influencer Economy | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
enough-cellar-shelf | The stored staples on the cellar shelf with weights written on the containers, one drum of grain in frame | Enough Is a Fine Amount to Have | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
enough-number-sheet | The household number sheet on a kitchen wall, handwritten, with the five lines legible | Enough Is a Fine Amount to Have | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
markets-and-the-pyramid-surplus | A wheelbarrow of graded surplus squash at the farm gate with the price board in frame | Markets Are Fine, Pyramid Schemes Are Not | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
markets-and-the-pyramid-notebook | A production ledger open to the season's input and yield columns | Markets Are Fine, Pyramid Schemes Are Not | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
commons-boundary-stake | A boundary stake and a hedge line between two holdings, shot low with the shared lane visible beyond | The Commons | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
commons-lease-desk | A community land trust lease and a county map open on a table, the ground lease clause legible | The Commons | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
nonseizable-roots-dug | A fork turned into a sweet potato ridge, roots lifted and the ground still full of the next row | Non-Seizable Production | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
nonseizable-apios | Apios americana vines climbing a trellis with tubers laid out on a board beside them | Non-Seizable Production | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
degrowth-fossil-share | One chart on a shed wall: the 2025 primary energy split with the fossil 80.85 per cent drawn to scale beside the solar and wind slice, wide enough to read the labels | Degrowth and the Growth Trap | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
degrowth-fixed-cost-column | A ledger page with two ruled columns, fixed costs totalled at the foot and the sold surplus beside it, the arithmetic legible in the frame | Degrowth and the Growth Trap | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
not-saying-falsifiers | The falsifier list pinned in the shed with the number to watch written beside each line, photographed square on so the columns can be compared | What This Course Is Not Saying | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
not-saying-counter-case | Two handwritten pages on a table, the attack page and the reply page, with the numbered objections legible in the frame | What This Course Is Not Saying | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
solarpunk-sun-array | The array on a sunlit day, bright and clean, wide shot that reads as daylight rather than mood | What Solarpunk Is | Solarpunk |
solarpunk-shovel-and-panel | A hand shovel and a solar charge controller on a bench side by side, close framing | What Solarpunk Is | Solarpunk |
appropriate-tech-wall | The hand-tool wall: scythe, spade, forks, hoes, hung in order, wide shot that shows the inventory | Appropriate Technology and Energy Descent | Solarpunk |
appropriate-tech-charge-controller | A solar charge controller open on a bench with a multimeter beside it, close framing on the serviceable parts | Appropriate Technology and Energy Descent | Solarpunk |
mutual-aid-tool-library | A shared tool wall or shed with common tools hung and labeled, wide shot that shows the inventory is shared rather than domestic | Mutual Aid and the Community You Already Have | Solarpunk |
mutual-aid-swap-table | A food swap in progress: tomatoes, bread, eggs, jars on a folding table with several people's hands in frame | Mutual Aid and the Community You Already Have | Solarpunk |
local-food-granary | The stored grain: sealed barrels or sacks on a pallet, dry and dark, wide shot that shows quantity | The Local Food System | Solarpunk |
local-food-mill | A hand or small mill grinding grain on a bench, flour falling into a bowl, close framing | The Local Food System | Solarpunk |
design-for-repair-bench | The repair bench in use: vise, files, spare handles, a tool half-mended, close framing that shows the work in progress | Design for Repair and the Long Haul | Solarpunk |
design-for-repair-boots | A resoled boot and a mended bucket beside a new receipt for something not bought, single frame | Design for Repair and the Long Haul | Solarpunk |
brief-template | The blank twelve-field brief sheet laid on a kitchen table with a pencil and a rain gauge, top-down | The Brief | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
brief-signed | The signed and dated brief pinned up in the shed where the design work happens | The Brief | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
survey-aframe | An A-frame level sighted along a pegged contour line on the south slope, mid-shot | Site Survey and Sector Analysis | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
survey-overlay | The base map with the sector overlay laid on top, sun arc and wind arrows visible | Site Survey and Sector Analysis | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
survey-frost-pocket | The low corner where frost settles, photographed white on a clear spring morning | Site Survey and Sector Analysis | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
water-swale-first-rain | The first fanya juu ditch holding water after a hard rain, looking along the contour | Water Design | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
water-pond-high | The high pond or tank at the top corner where the run-on enters, with the inlet visible | Water Design | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
soil-ledger | A completed one-field nutrient ledger on paper beside the soil pit it describes | Soil and Fertility Plan | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
soil-clover-undersow | Crimson clover undersown in the autumn staple block, close on the green cover between the grain rows | Soil and Fertility Plan | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
crop-plan-wall | The completed crop plan pinned to the shed wall with the rotation grid beside it | Crop and Livestock Plan | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
crop-hens-tractor | The laying hens in their tractor on the potato residues, showing the closed loop in one frame | Crop and Livestock Plan | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
calorie-ledger | The completed per-crop calorie ledger on paper, the fat column circled at the bottom | Calorie Accounting | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
calorie-hazel-block | The 2,200 square feet of hazelnut that closes the fat gap, marked out and pegged | Calorie Accounting | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
labor-budget-grid | The twelve-month labour budget grid with the June column circled | Labour and Calendar | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
labor-calendar-wall | The working calendar pinned in the shed, each month's task list legible | Labour and Calendar | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
econ-budget-sheets | The capital and annual cost sheets beside the surplus sheet on one table | Economics: Costs, Surplus and Fair Price | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
econ-surplus-store | The surplus oil, nuts and seed laid out, the part that is worth selling rather than the grain | Economics: Costs, Surplus and Fair Price | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
redteam-table | The eight-row red-team table on paper, the changes column filled in red | Red Team Your Own Design | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
redteam-revised-plan | The revised site plan with the hazel and sunflower split and the maslin grain marked | Red Team Your Own Design | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
defend-package | The ten-part design package laid out in order, the defence page on top | Submit and Defend | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
defend-published | The design published where a stranger can read it, the open licence and the invitation to attack visible | Submit and Defend | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
Videos to create
| Slug | What the video has to show | Lesson | Part |
|---|---|---|---|
why-course-manifesto | Jason at the seed room, speaking the four positions to camera, 4-6 min, unedited | Why This Course Exists | Orientation |
how-course-walkthrough | A three to five minute screen tour of the course site: part list, a lesson, the source list, the exercises | How This Course Works | Orientation |
pdc-economics | Jason working through the 72-hour convention and what the certificate does and does not license, 5-7 min, at the grain store | What a PDC Actually Is | Orientation |
three-frames-walkthrough | Jason walking the farm, naming each of the three frames in turn with the ground behind him, 6-8 min | Three Frames: Subsistence, Anti-Capitalism, Solarpunk | Orientation |
wpd-provenance-card | Two minutes: filling out a provenance card for one practice, out loud, so learners copy the method not the answer | What Permaculture Is | The Basics of Permaculture |
te-cap-worked | Four minutes: working through the fair-share cap arithmetic for one household, from pantry count to land area, out loud | The Three Ethics | The Basics of Permaculture |
dp-principle-in-field | Five minutes: walking one principle on real ground, naming the principle, the example, and the older source, in that order | The Design Principles | The Basics of Permaculture |
osa-survey-walk | Six minutes, unedited: walking the checklist on real ground, calling out each reading as it is taken | Observation and Site Analysis | The Basics of Permaculture |
cm-cassava-test | Four minutes: working the cassava season, temperature, and storage tests against the measured local record, out loud | Climate and Microclimate | The Basics of Permaculture |
wil-tank-maths | Four minutes: measuring a roof and working the catchment and dry-spell bridge arithmetic out loud, to the gallon | Water in the Landscape | The Basics of Permaculture |
soil-pit-taste | Three minutes: digging a two-foot pit, reading the layers, dropping the bottle in, tasting a pinch of each horizon | Soil | The Basics of Permaculture |
polyculture-nodule-walk | Two minutes: digging a legume, washing the roots, cutting a nodule open, and reading pink against white | Plants, Polyculture and Guilds | The Basics of Permaculture |
animal-flock-move | Four minutes: moving a small flock onto a harvested bed, showing what they eat and what they leave | Animals in the System | The Basics of Permaculture |
zones-visit-frequency-walk | Four minutes: walking the daily round from the back door, calling out each destination and its visits per week | Zones, Sectors and the Design Process | The Basics of Permaculture |
structures-lime-mortar | Four minutes: mixing a lime and sand mortar by volume on a board, working it into a stone joint, and showing the tool left clean | Structures and Appropriate Technology | The Basics of Permaculture |
yield-harvest-weigh | Three minutes: weighing a day's harvest on a hanging scale and calling out the weight and the hours | What Yield Actually Means | The Basics of Permaculture |
provenance-walk | Two-minute farm walk naming which pre-industrial writer first described each technique in view, standing at each site | The Deep History of Agriculture | Where These Ideas Come From |
drainage-exit | Walk to the outlet of a field and point out where irrigation water and salt leave the ground, or show that there is none | Mesopotamia and the First Salinization | Where These Ideas Come From |
fallow-turn | Turning a green cover crop under with a spade or hoe, 3-4 min, showing the green material going down into the soil | Hesiod, Xenophon and the Greek Farm | Where These Ideas Come From |
green-manure-turn | Turning a legume cover crop under with a spade, 3-4 min, showing the roots and the soil beneath | Cato, Varro, Columella and the Roman Farm | Where These Ideas Come From |
whip-graft | Making a whip-and-tongue graft on a fruit tree, 4-5 min, showing the cambium alignment and the seal | Pliny, Theophrastus and the First Natural History | Where These Ideas Come From |
trench-compost | Building a layered trench or bin compost with dung, ash and bedding, 4-5 min, showing each layer and the moisture | The Geoponica and Byzantine Farming | Where These Ideas Come From |
wet-layering-graft | Smearing and binding a branch onto a stock with the junction covered in mud, 3-4 min, showing the seal | The Arabic Agricultural Revolution | Where These Ideas Come From |
muck-spreading | Spreading dung on stubble before the plough, 3-4 min, showing the mixing of dung and soil | Medieval European Husbandry | Where These Ideas Come From |
crescenzi-estate-walk | Walk the property naming each element Crescenzi would place, water, manure, garden, field, tree, 4-6 min unedited | Crescenzi and the Italian Villa | Where These Ideas Come From |
baseline-page | Writing the household calorie baseline on the first page of the notebook, 2 to 3 minutes, unedited | What a Subsistence System Is | Subsistence First |
run-the-equation | Doing the calories-to-kilograms-to-square-metres calculation on paper for one crop, 4 to 5 minutes, unedited | The Subsistence Equation | Subsistence First |
choose-your-triad | Naming the grain, legume and oil for the farm and justifying each by rainfall and storage, 4 to 5 minutes, unedited | The Staple Triad: Grain, Legume, Oil | Subsistence First |
why-grain | Talking through the anti-grain position and the calorie arithmetic that answers it, 5 to 6 minutes, unedited | Grains Without Guilt | Subsistence First |
size-the-garden | Measuring out 100 square metres per person and dividing it into quarters, 3 to 4 minutes, unedited | Vegetables and the Hundred Square Metres | Subsistence First |
preservation-grain-store | Opening a sealed grain bin after six months, hands through the grain checking for damp and weevil, 5 min unedited | Preservation and Storage Without Fossil Energy | Subsistence First |
work-ox-team | Yoking a pair of oxen and ploughing a terrace end to end, 6 min, unedited, no music | Tools and the Honest Hours | Subsistence First |
accounting-worked-example | Working the acre example on a whiteboard or paper, camera on the sheet, 8 min, unedited, numbers legible | Calorie and Yield Accounting | Subsistence First |
fat-gap-explained | Walking the engine's calorie, protein and fat carrying-capacity lines on paper, 6 min, unedited | Carrying Capacity and the Fat Problem | Subsistence First |
resilience-water-backup | Filling and testing the backup water store, 4 min, unedited, including the valve the household does not usually touch | Resilience, Failure and Redundancy | Subsistence First |
sufficiency-fair-price | Working the cost-of-production price for one crop on paper, on camera, 5 min, unedited | Sufficiency and the Fair Price | Subsistence First |
pyramid-seat-arithmetic | Working the revenue and seat arithmetic for a one-teacher course on a whiteboard, 4-6 min, unedited | The Pyramid | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
enclosure-three-moves | Walking a boundary between a common lane and a fenced pasture, naming the three moves, 5-7 min, unedited | Enclosure | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
land-access-lease-clauses | Reading three lease clauses aloud with the land visible behind, 4-6 min, unedited | The Land Access Crisis | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
influencer-funding-model | Reading this farm's own revenue lines aloud from the shop and books pages, 4-6 min, unedited | The Influencer Economy | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
enough-stopping-rule | Walking the holding and naming each of the four stopping tests against the actual ground and the ledger, 6-8 min, unedited | Enough Is a Fine Amount to Have | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
markets-and-the-pyramid-costing | Costing one crop from seed to sale in a notebook, 5-7 min, unedited | Markets Are Fine, Pyramid Schemes Are Not | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
commons-eight-principles | Walking a shared resource and naming each of Ostrom's eight principles as it applies, 6-8 min | The Commons | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
nonseizable-harvest-window | Walking the plot and naming each crop's ripening week, 5-7 min, unedited | Non-Seizable Production | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
degrowth-additions | Six minutes at a bench with the 2010 to 2025 addition figures written out, walking the ratio of new solar and wind to new fossil from 0.08 to 0.66, unedited | Degrowth and the Growth Trap | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
not-saying-six-items | Seven minutes reading the six items aloud on camera, unedited, each one followed by the sentence in it that a reader could check | What This Course Is Not Saying | Anti-Capitalism: The Political Economy of Permaculture |
solarpunk-what-it-is | Jason on the south slope at midday, solar array and food forest behind him, stating the position in his own words, 6-8 min | What Solarpunk Is | Solarpunk |
appropriate-tech-tools | Jason at the tool wall, naming which tools are owned, which are rented, and which sit above the repair threshold, 6-8 min | Appropriate Technology and Energy Descent | Solarpunk |
mutual-aid-start | Jason around a shared table or in the barn, talking through doing, relationship, capacity, power, 5-7 min | Mutual Aid and the Community You Already Have | Solarpunk |
local-food-storage | Jason in the grain store and root cellar, walking through what is kept and how, 6-8 min | The Local Food System | Solarpunk |
design-repair-bench | Jason at the repair bench mending a tool, talking through the repair threshold and what he fixes rather than replaces, 6-8 min | Design for Repair and the Long Haul | Solarpunk |
brief-walk | Filling in the brief on site, narrating each measured field, 4-6 min, unedited | The Brief | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
survey-rain-walk | Walking the slope in heavy rain, pointing to where the water sheets and pools, 4-6 min | Site Survey and Sector Analysis | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
water-budget-walk | Laying the swale line with the A-frame and pegging it, then standing back to show the contour, 4-6 min | Water Design | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
soil-pit-face | Digging a spade-deep soil pit and reading the topsoil depth on camera, 3-4 min | Soil and Fertility Plan | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
crop-trio-walk | Standing in the grain block explaining why the bean goes before the grain, 3-4 min | Crop and Livestock Plan | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
calorie-walkthrough | Walking through the division to the limiting nutrient on camera, showing each column, 5-6 min | Calorie Accounting | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
labor-grain-harvest | The manual grain harvest in June, cutting and binding, showing the one concentrated block of the year, 4-5 min | Labour and Calendar | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
econ-fair-price | Working the cost-per-pound arithmetic on camera, then comparing it to the market, 4-5 min | Economics: Costs, Surplus and Fair Price | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
redteam-attack | Running the drought and oil-failure attacks out loud against the ledger, 5-6 min | Red Team Your Own Design | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
defend-walkthrough | Walking a visitor through the finished design on site, showing each part against the ground, 6-8 min | Submit and Defend | Capstone: Design Your Own Subsistence Farm |
How to shoot these
Phone camera is fine. Landscape orientation, the sun behind you, and hold still for three seconds at the start and the end so there is somewhere to cut. For anything that shows a technique, take a wide shot that shows where you are standing and a close shot of the hands. The wide shot is the one that teaches.
Do not stage abundance. If the bed has gaps, shoot the gaps: the gap is the lesson. Name the date on every photograph, because in two years the sequence is what makes this material worth having.