Week One
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Week 1 - Statement of Intent Discussion Question-

What goals do you have for your design site that you would like to address with the Permaculture design project in this course?

This discussion question will help you to think about what you would like to accomplish through your design.  Post your answer to the discussion question by Entering the Statement of Intent Discussion Board.

**This activity is required to earn your Intro to Permaculture Digital Badge.


Week 1 - Design Site Map Activity

Now that your site has been Pin-Pointed on Google Maps.  Use Google Features to draw an outline around the Property Borders to define the Space. If you  prefer you can use any other program to achieve this task. You can even print the map, draw it by hand, scan or take a picture of your drawing.  For Hints and Tips to Alternative methods see the paragraph below.  Once you have completed your Border Map
post the picture on the-- Site Design Discussion Board
When Earth Mother Studio acquired our property, we did this same Design Map Activity.  For each Map Activity this Course requests, you will see the Sample map from Earth Mother Studio's location in Lamesa, Texas.

**This activity is required to earn your-- Intro to Permaculture Digital Badge . 

Week 1 - Alternative Tool Instructions and Resources.

There are many alternative avenues to search and locate a map, as well as many ways to save it so that it can be used and shared in this course. Listed below are sources that can provide maps for you to use and share, as well as ways for you to save the map, depending on the source.

Google Earth (Requires you to download either Google Earth or Google Earth Pro to your desktop or mobile device (Google Earth Beginner Tutorials provide resources on searching for places 

Ways to save:

Google Maps (Google Maps Help Center provides resources on how to Search on Google Maps. Links to an external site. , Search nearby for a type of place  , See terrain on the map . , Search for & get coordinates  

Ways to save:

  • Print out the map and Scan the printed map (See Google Maps Help Center - Print the map 
  • Take a screenshot of the map (How to take a screenshot with various devices: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome OS - take-a-screenshot.org  

Governments, Educational institutions, Private interests

Ways to save:

  • Scan the printed map 
  • Take a screenshot of the map (How to take a screenshot with various devices: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome OS - take-a-screenshot.org 
  • Take a photo of the map

Hand-drawn maps/location sites

Ways to save:

  • Scan the map drawing 
  • Take a photo of the map drawing