Happy Horses Ranch

Introduction

Mission

Create a place that is self sustaining

profitable, full of activities, and close to

mother nature

Goals• Financial Income

– Identify income opportunities • Structures

– Evaluate existing structures– Identify the need for new elements

• Increase Food Production– Support both permanent residents and guests

• Activities– Identify activities for visitors

• Simplify the life and support the philosophy of Happy Horses Ranch– Energy efficiency and planning– Small scale intensive

Process

5 Permaculture Principles

1. Energy Cycling

2. Diversity

3. Multiple Elements Supporting Functions

4. Accelerating Succession

5. Edge

Permaculture Ethics

Accommodation Area

• Edge

• Relative Location

• Use of Biological Resources

Yurt

Kitchen and Workshop Area

• Relative Location

• Energy Cycling

• Multiple Elements Supporting Functions

Cob Oven

Pond and Recreation Area

• Diversity

• Edge

• Attitudinal Principle

Recreation Area

Pond

2,0 m

3,0 m

3,0 m

4,0 m

2,0 m

5-Rabitssecond floor

5-ChikenSecond Floor

Bed room

5-free docks

5,0 m

2,5 m

3,0 m

8,5 m

entrence

Water from the river using RAM pump

compost

compost

mushroom

tank

plants

Animal Barn

5-Sheep - 2 litres milk/day, wool, meet, attraction, manure

4-horses – riding, attraction, transport, meet, manure

2-pony – riding, attraction, transport, meet, manure

2-cow – 40 litres milk/day, attraction, meet, manure

2-pig – meet, attraction, manure, digger

2-rabits – meet, attraction, manure

5-chicken – 5 egs/day, meet, attraction, manure

5-docks – 5 egs/day, meet, attraction, manure

worm – attraction, soil manure

2-goat – 1 litres milk/day, meet, attraction, manure, angora

principles

• Relative location-

- fodder – near to animal

- water bank-high - using gravitation

- compost – near to the source

principles

• Each element supports many function

food

clothing plants

attraction

principles

• Each function is provided by many elements

Food

Grazing

Food Forest

• Accelerating Succession

• Diversity

• Edge

Chicken coop

Willow Baskets

“Snowbord Glasses” Pond

Black Alder

Phases of Implementation

Incomes- Diversity, Each function is provided by many elements, Each element supports many functions,

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• Accommodation – temp, tipi, yurt, caravan, open space

• Feed – baker, eggs, milk, yoghourt, cheese, vegetable, fruit, cuisine, preserved food …

• Food forest – mixed food forest, bushes, ponds, herbs, ducks, fishes, algae, …

• Vegetable garden – bean, lentils, potatoes, chicken tractor, perennial plants, carrot, beet root, …..

• Animal barn – horses, pony, cow, goat, rabbits,….. • Activities – walking in the garden and animal barn,

riding, workshops- (bakery, making yoghurt and cheese, cooking, knitting, spinning wool and cotton, adventure park), presentations, festivals, training, races ….

www.ranchohappyhorses.com

Welcome to the Happy HorsesIt’s a sunny, funny place!!!

If you want to feel the nature Come to Happy Horses Ranch!

Thank you!