A bit more than skeleton plan

I've been debating how best to articulate the plan, or design, for the farm, and I think I should go over it all twice, with two different organizing principles.

One will be according to design elements. This is the "I want this stuff" part of the design: poultry, greywater, field crops, forest garden, herbivores, etc. The other principle will be according to the permaculture concept of zones, which focuses more on the spatial organization of elements to make them more usable and mutually supporting. This is the what goes where part. It will probably serve as a check to make sure that the design is usable. The higher the zone number, the less traffic the area receives. Zone zero is the house, and zone five is untouched, usually forest, kept intact as a classroom for nature, a source of balance and established biology. This can be tricky because a forest is a great resource, but if overmanaged the lessons it could teach us may be clouded or confused by our intentions.

So I'll put up a series of posts about all the stuff I want to do, then imagine routes of work through the day to tie it all together.