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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify client requirements for advice
   • Initiate contact with the client to determine the scope and type of the permaculture advice required
   • Clarify the needs and requirements of the client
   • Determine client’s resources
   • Determine the needs and potential of the site or project
2. Provide information on permaculture
   • Provide the client with a written brief outlining the requirements for advice
   • Supply the client with information on permaculture design principles and practices
   • Respond to client requests for clarification or expansion of information
   • Outline relevant literature on permaculture and other sources of information to client
   • Record information given to the client
3. Undertake permaculture research
   • Research specific applications of permaculture principles and practices related to client needs and requirements
   • Determine research strategies and sources
   • Research and investigate latest developments in permaculture principles and practices
4. Provide advice on permaculture principles and practices
   • Prepare advisory documentation or presentation based on the client brief
   • Explain contents of advisory documentation to the client
   • Include a statement of limitations of advice
   • Respond to client requests for clarification or expansion of permaculture principles and practices
   • Take feedback from client

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 requirements for information and advice

propose a selection of permaculture practices and strategies that best suit the needs and resources of the client and the potential of the site

provide information on permaculture principles

provide advice on permaculture practices and strategies

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

principles of permaculture based on 12 principles in David Holmgren Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability and the work of Mollison and Slay

ethics of permaculture: care for the earth, care for all people, fair share of surpluses, setting limits to biophysical growth (population, resource use and waste)

permaculture practices and strategies, such as

personal, household, community and bioregional strategies

sustainable agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture and organic gardening

economic alternatives that support sustainable living

low energy and low embodied energy building and manufacturing

appropriate technology

restoration ecology and maintenance of biodiversity

sustainable community development, bioregional development and relocalisation

Reuse and return of products in manufacturing cycle and waste utilisation, waste water, grey water, sewage and resource treatment for re-use and recycling

Sustainability education

elements of permaculture systems

functions of permaculture systems

permaculture design techniques

innovation in plant, animal and technology selection, use and performance

recent practice in bioregional community development and local energy descent planning

client communication techniques, record keeping and listening techniques

preparation of reports and presentations for clients

uses of Statements of Limitation in the giving of advice

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