Land Assessment for Prospective Agroeducation and Tourism Destination in Solo Central Java pt.1

 This post is written for my friend @merahitam which have a brilliant idea to create an agro education/tourism based on permaculture principle. For those of you who doesn't know about permaculture before, don't worry, cause either do I.

But @merahitam explains to me before his departure to get certified in Bali that permaculture is more like a design principle which encompass self sustainability for various agricultural activity. Although it might be a bit of an abstract, but in practice this principle might be the solution to the ever growing issue of land scarcity, global warming, drought and other issues that affects food supply,environment and everything that follows.

Now, I was thinking that perhaps we can implement and spread this knowledge in Indonesia, especially in Solo. That's why I propose to @merahitam one of my family's land to be utilized into permaculture education ground.

In this post I will explain the features of the land and its general situation. This will only serve for referrence, because as a layperson obviously I haven't have the idea on what makes a good permaculture land. So it's more on @merahitam to decide its eligibility. We are also completely open for discussion from the steem community so hopefully together we can formulate the best solution for permaculture insemination in Indonesia.

In this first part, I will elaborate the overview of the land and its condition.

The site is located in desa Gemawang, Karanganyar, Central Java. Although it might seems remote but its very near to the nearest asphalt road toward Tawangmangu.
The site can be accessed in 2 ways :

The first access is via the caretaker's home
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Which leads to a small and narrow path only accessible by foot.
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This small threshold has a chicken coop and goat's pen.
In about 60 metres we arrive at the site

As you can see, there's a wooden fence halfway to the middle of the site. Looking at the right, is the second entry point of the site.

This entry point is connected to the main road, which can be used by vehicle as such :

Now, back to the site, the contour of the land is downright hillside. Although the elevation is still comfortable to be walked upon. The site is quite spacious with overall size of 5000 metre square forming the letter L

Moving trough the upper side of the site, we can see the steepness of the land with a direct view on the forrest in front.

Further downward on the hill, we can see my personal lab for cassava plantation and clover plantation.

Even further downward, we can see ravines that lead straight into a small river, which is quite suitable as a source of water for the upcoming permaculture.

Thus far is the overview of the site that's quite potential for implementation of permaculture. On the next part we shall discuss the site potential and assets surrounding the area.