Services by Gaia Guidance
Lerne das breite Tätigkeitsfeld von Gaia Guidance kennen. Der zugrundeliegende Gestaltungsansatz und vielseitige Werkzeugkoffer von Permaculture erlaubt ein vielseitiges Angebot an Dienstleistungen. Die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten reichen vom heimischen Balkon bis zur Landwirtschaft und Landschaftspflege.
Bitte kontaktiere Gaia Guidance bei Interesse oder Fragen für ein unverbindliches Gespräch!
Die Preise werden im Anschluss individuell vereinbart.
Advisory & Consulting
Ask for a second opinion or seek advice on developing your space to make informed decisions.
Permaculture-Design
Holistic land design is the foundation for the sustainable use and development of your site.
Syntropic Agroforestry
Plant and work with a versatile and multifunctional system that stimulates growth and production through selective disturbance and intelligent management.
Water Retention & Erosion Control
Change the paradigm of rain in modern water management as a cause of flooding and use its potential for greater autonomy and resilience.
Courses & Other Educational Programs
Invest in yourself and attend day events or week-long courses on various topics related to Permaculture.
Design-Coaching
Develop a relationship with your site and let Gaia Guidance guide you through the design process to create your own design.
Advisory & Consulting
Support with site development
Mit fachlicher Expertise und praktischer Erfahrung wird dir Gaia Guidance bei der kontextbezogenen Einbindung einer Fläche beratend zur Seite stehen. Jeder Mensch hat jedoch seine eigenen Stärken und Expertise und niemand kann in allem gut sein. Das gilt natürlich auch für Gaia Guidance. Mit dem ganzheitlichen Ansatz der Permaculture können wir uns einer Herausforderung trotzdem auf der Meta-Ebene annehmen und gemeinsam Lösungsstrategien entwickeln.
Folgende Fragen stehen beispielhaft für die Art und Weise, wie dich Gaia Guidance unterstützen kann.
- Welche Akteure nutzen die Fläche?
- Welche Potenziale und Herausforderungen bestehen?
- Welche Qualitäten soll die Fläche besitzen?
Diese Dienstleistungen richten sich an private, öffentliche oder betriebliche Akteure, die bezüglich der nachhaltigen Entwicklung einer Fläche Fragen haben oder eine zweite Meinung wünschen.
Make informed decisions
The consultation aims to empower you to make informed decisions that meet your needs and develop your site to be more functional and environmentally embedded.
Consultancy service
Once Gaia Guidance has familiarized itself with the situation during a conversation or visit to the site, it will provide an initial assessment. If requested, Gaia Guidance will then continue to provide advice, offering expertise, inspiration, and solution proposals.
Permaculture-Design
Holistic site design
Landscape design is the classic application of Permaculture design. Its area of application ranges from vegetable beds, plots of land, or neighborhoods to entire landscapes. Through observation and integration of a variety of factors, a holistic design is achieved.
Foundation for sustainable development
A Permaculture design for a site is the foundation for its sustainable development. The focus is on meeting your individual needs as effectively as possible while taking ecological conditions into account.
From concept to implementation
To clarify key issues, Gaia Guidance begins its work with a conversation and an inspection of the site. Based on this, Gaia Guidance then designs your site using a holistic design process based on the approach of Permaculture.
Je nach Bedarf umfasst die Dienstleistung einen Flächenplan samt Pflanzenliste, sowie Anweisungen zur Umsetzung und Pflege. Gerne begleitet dich Gaia Guidance darüber hinaus sowohl bei der Umsetzung als auch bei der Implementierung des Designs.
Syntropic Agroforestry
On the role of humans
Syntropic agroforestry systems are complex systems with a high degree of biodiversity and plant density in both spatial and temporal dimensions. They are comparatively labor-intensive, but offer the opportunity to take on one of the roles naturally intended for humans. Analogous to our animal relatives, who cause small disturbances in nature with their daily activities, for example by breaking off branches, turning over soil, or even damming watercourses, syntropic systems are stimulated to grow and produce through selective disturbance and intelligent management. This has many positive side effects for biodiversity and the soil. Syntropic systems therefore show particularly great potential for the regeneration of degraded areas.
Multifunctional
Planting a syntropic system has a positive effect on the development of the entire system. In addition to the diverse food and wood production resulting from the high diversity of plants, soil is actively built up, habitat is created, and the microclimate is regulated.
Running through succession
Die Dienstleistung umfasst die Planung von syntropischen Agroforstsystemen und Unterstützung bei deren Umsetzung, sowie dem langfristigen Management.
Water Retention & Erosion Control
The blessing of rain
In conventional water management, rain is usually perceived as a problem. It must be drained away as quickly as possible to prevent flooding, especially in view of the predicted increase and frequency of extreme precipitation events. However, draining rainwater means that water reservoirs such as groundwater and surface water can hardly regenerate, even though they are of central importance for the extraction of drinking and utility water. Increasing soil sealing exacerbates this problem by making it more difficult for rainwater to infiltrate the soil.
However, rain is also the mechanism that transports clean, free water, the source of life, across the land. Water retention therefore deals with the management of surface water for the purpose of slowing down the water before it leaves an area. The slowing of surface runoff is achieved through the use of retention elements such as lakes, ponds, terraces, basins, or ditches. The water can be distributed and stored for later use or allowed to seep into the ground, where it is available to a variety of users.
Rain no longer needs to be seen as a source of problems if we learn to harness its potential and make it our primary source of water.
Water supply and climate resilience
Eines der Hauptziele von Water Retention ist die Grundwasserneubildung. Das infiltrierte oder anderweitig gespeicherte Wasser steht im Anschluss nicht nur den Pflanzen zur Verfügung, sondern dient auch der Trink- und Brauchwasserbereitstellung. Entstandene Wasserkörper bieten Lebensraum und Mikroklima, sowie Reserven zur Mitigation von Extremwetterereignissen und deren Folgen, insbesondere von Überflutungen und Dürren bzw. Erosion und Waldbränden.
This can reduce the potential damage caused by extreme weather events beyond the boundaries of your property.
Greater autonomy and resilience through independent water management
Gaia Guidance übernimmt die Planung, Umsetzung und Pflege von Water Retentionssystemen, um den Wasserfluss auf deiner Fläche zu moderieren und nach Möglichkeit nutzbar zu machen. Lass dir einen Wasserhaushaltsplan für dein Zuhause oder deine Fläche erstellen und dabei helfen, deinen Wasserbedarf nach Möglichkeit mit sauberem und kostenlosem Regenwasser zu decken.
Courses & Other Educational Programs
Day events to week-long courses
Dive into the world of Permaculture and related topics. Attend a one-day introductory seminar on permaculture or take a six-day course to learn how to use rainwater most effectively on your property.
Gaia Guidance offers events on the following topics:
- Composting
- Water retention in the landscape
- Introduction to Permaculture
- Introduktion to syntropic agroforestry systems
If there are currently no events on your desired topic listed in the event calendar, you are welcome to get in touch to discuss the possibility of organizing an event.
A worthy investment
Am besten kann Wissen wirken, wenn es breit gestreut wird. Permaculture hat ein riesiges Potenzial, welches sich nur entfaltet, wenn es von einer breiten Masse angewandt wird. Bildung ist darüber hinaus eine wichtige Voraussetzung für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben und das Erreichen der eigenen Ziele und damit eine der besten und nachhaltigsten Investitionen, die du tätigen kannst.
Organization & conduction
Gaia Guidance organizes and conducts events on various topics related to Permaculture and the environment in general. In addition to theory, practical exercises or work assignments are also offered whenever possible. The events can be booked by arrangement or are available for registration in the event calendar.
Design-Coaching
Create your own design
A Permaculture design is an important step toward the sustainable use of a site. However, even the best design is only as good as the users' ability to identify with it. A design from Gaia Guidance is tailored to you personally. Nevertheless, it cannot achieve the quality of a design that has been developed organically and grown organically. You know yourself, your needs, and your site best. If not, the design process offers the opportunity to change that. Your own design creates connection and has the potential to be better suited to both of you.
Gaia Guidance would therefore like to encourage and assist you in becoming creative yourself and creating your own design. In doing so, you can gain an insight into Permaculture and receive tools to develop your site sustainably on your own.
Diese Dienstleistung richtet sich an Menschen mit Zugang zu einer Fläche, welche sie entwickeln wollen. Der Gestaltungsprozess kann aufwendig sein und erfordert Zeit, sowie den Willen, sich mit einer Problem- oder Fragestellung ehrlich und offen auseinanderzusetzen.
Build a relationship with your site
During the design process, you will get to know yourself and your site intensively, allowing a relationship to develop. You will make the decisions that determine your design and understand the reasons behind them. Ultimately, the goal of Gaia Guidance is to stimulate your passion for mindful interaction with your site. All of this will most likely have a positive impact on the sustainable use and development of your site.
Going through the process together
Gaia Guidance takes you by the hand and accompanies you through your own creative process. First, you will receive an introduction to Permaculture and its central aspects. You can then develop your project independently or with guidance, using various methods from the Permaculture toolbox. You decide for yourself how much support you would like to receive from Gaia Guidance.