02451 Food design challenges

Being able to take ideas and transform them into something tangible is life-affirming. — Melinda Santillian

In permaculture, we learn design by actually doing design. The purpose of the Design Challenges document in each of the sections is to give you practice doing design. Each challenge document has some small projects that you can work that will help you to develop design skills. Never forget that none of these challenges exists in isolation. Each is an aspect of the holistic design for your life that is the iPermie goal!

This section offers you six design challenges. Here they are, with the documents that reference them. Your goal in these challenges is to develop food design skills that will help you to compile a permaculture design for your life.

As you work through these design challenges, make a list of the beneficial connections between these design projects and the rest of your life.

02141 Make a baking station

02271 Designing your kitchen record-keeping system

02301 Design a fermentation station for your kitchen.

02341 Design a storage solution for your lifestyle’s food systems.

02421 Design a permacultured college food system

02431 Design a personal food system