I don't know what zone you'd consider our pavilion but I'd be interested. It started as a pile of burnt telephone poles. I dug it down to the level of the house, moved huge boulders to hold the street up, created three ponds that flow into each other, and built shade. It used to be broiled rock now it's a whole riparian habitat. Much more biodiversity but all driven by hard work and human intervention.
Wow! Amazing shots
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Thanks, Susan!
Your pavilion sounds heavenly, Steve. You are so fortunate to live in a place that enables this sort of endeavor. Too many places are too full of regulation, and too many people are too full of television, to take on the sorts of things you do.
One of the main goals of permaculture is to increase "output," which might be biodiversity, or harvest, or beauty, or resources left over for future use.
As for the "zone" number of your pavilion, since it's part of where you regularly move and exist, it would be 2 or 3.
What you succeeded in doing was working with the sectors of sun, slope and road to increase "edge," and so you got an increase in "output," in this case, a nicer place to hang out.
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