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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify scope of integrated plant and animal system required
   • Identify client needs and the nature of the job by gathering all relevant information from the client
   • Assist client to understand the concept of an integrated plant and animal system
   • Define client needs using research and observation
2. Develop options for preferred solutions
   • Identify options or devise strategies using research and experiential awareness, permaculture principles and enterprise work procedures
   • Examine options or evaluate strategies using problem-solving techniques
   • Determine the options based on appropriate evidence, availability of resources, energy, sound cultural principles, permaculture practices, and enterprise work procedures
3. Recommend the preferred solution
   • Recommend the integrated plant and animal method of establishment and probable outcomes to the client
   • Refer to the origin of the plant and animal species and their cultural requirements in an integrated system where necessary
   • Respond appropriately to client requests for clarification or expansion
   • Prepare drawings and tables to show how the systems integrate to increase yields, reduce work and eliminate waste
   • Record recommendations and report to client appropriately

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

identify client needs and the nature of the job

determine options for developing an integrated plant and animal system

communicate with clients, work team members, supervisors, suppliers, contractors and consultants

identify plants

provide information on the characteristics, needs and functions of plants and animals in integrated systems

interpret site designs, maps, ground plans and specifications

prepare drawings and tables showing how the systems integrate

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

permaculture principles related to integrated plant and animal systems

permaculture practices, such as:

minimising effort for maximum effect

multiple uses for each element in the system

more than one way of providing important functions

re-using and valuing resources and energy

encouraging productivity of the system

seeing solutions not problems

using vertical space and other edges and connections

preventing waste and loss of resources from the system

methods of design, such as planning spatially and allowing for overhead and underground structures, shadow, slope and sun angle

an understanding of the place of permaculture topics sometimes relevant to integrated plant and animal systems, such as:

pattern understanding

ecological principles

climate and weather

water

soils

earthworks

aquaculture

species identification and selection information

plants in integrated systems

animals in integrated systems

local plant suppliers, animal suppliers, consultants, services, products and contractors and availability of local resources

patterns in permaculture design, such as:

patterns in space, such as planting patterns, naturally occurring patterns in nature (radial and bilateral symmetry, spirals, circles, dendritic and mandala patterns)

patterns in time, such as succession planting, breeding cycles, seasonality

patterns in human culture, such as gardening systems

nature as the model for design, such as stacking or layering as with a natural forest

gravity as a force for design, such as using contours in design

nutrient, water and energy capture, storage and re-use according to the inputs, outputs and intrinsic features of the system

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