August 23
We wanted to test our methodology in an area that's completely unknown to us. Good thing Dax Olfindo of Dream Agritech Consultancy recommended us to meet up with permaculture designer, Joana Tan who is planning to setup a potential permaculture site in Sulpoc, Tanauan.
As always, we discovered some minor glitches in our methodology. We also forgot to bring some materials. By the way, this is our sampling methodology for the inventory of biotic system components. For other system components such as abiotic, manmade, technological, cultural, and socio-economic, we will do a full inventory of the site or sites, depending on the extent of the design.
We're planning to do one more pre-test before we head out to our first site on August 31.
Music: Christian Bjoerklund - Hallon
We used PVC pipes, plastic straw, and rubber bands to create visible markers for our sampling plots.
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| Pre-test near the Fertility Tree (August 17) |
August 17 (video)
We practiced identifying biotic components in two randomly sampled 25 sqm sampling plots in the garden area of the Agronomy building. The plot was then partitioned into 1 sqm quadrats to create a 5x5 matrix. The columns are labeled with a corresponding letter while the rows are labled with a number. A quadrat or cell is then located using the column-row address (parang spreadsheet sa MS Excel!).
In the actual data gathering in permaculture sites, a 1 ha (10,000 sqm) property will be divided into a quadrant with an area of 2500 sqm each. Ten 25 sqm plots will be randomly sampled from each quadrant and then partitioned into 1 sqm quadrats for the inventory of biotic components.
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