I first came across this way of thinking when I found the work of Darren Doherty. He is a world-class designer who has established the Regarians platform where they use a more in-depth understanding of the scale of permanence in setting up a farm. The basic concept is a movement from the most energy required to change to (#1) to less energy (#9). I have used the scale of permanence in setting up our farm as a tool to help inform how specific components may impact the design over time. In this video, I have tried to briefly introduce the Scale of Permanence as a logical way to approach a landscape so that it can be used as a tool to better understand the holistic potential. This way of thinking about a landscape can help guide decisions that need to be made by weighing up its relative permanence in the system and the costs of energy that it would take to alter. It will be a powerful tool in a new farmers' toolkit as it takes time and experience to gain the required abilities to read the landscape efficiently.