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Author : Bill Mollison
Release : 2014-09
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Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Permaculture by : Bill Mollison
Download or read book Permaculture written by Bill Mollison. This book was released on 2014-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Mollison
Release : 1993
Genre : Cooking
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Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition by : Bill Mollison
Download or read book The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition written by Bill Mollison. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical guide for those interested in storing, processing and preserving their own food, emphasising the fermentation process. Covers a wide range of food groups and also provides information on agricultural composts, silage and liquid manure, nutrition and environmental health. Includes resources and references, a chronology, a species list of scientific names and an index. The author is an expert on permaculture, whose other publications include 'Permaculture 1' (1978) and 'Permaculture 2' (1979).
Author : Aranya
Release : 2012
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 919/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Permaculture Design by : Aranya
Download or read book Permaculture Design written by Aranya. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leads the reader through the design process, linking theory to practice."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Toby Hemenway
Release : 2015-07-17
Genre : House & Home
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Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Permaculture City by : Toby Hemenway
Download or read book The Permaculture City written by Toby Hemenway. This book was released on 2015-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food—connecting the pieces of the landscape together in harmonious ways—applies perfectly to many of our other needs. Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs. The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a “job” and a “livelihood,” and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community. This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.
Author : Ben Falk
Release : 2013
Genre : Gardening
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Resilient Farm and Homestead by : Ben Falk
Download or read book The Resilient Farm and Homestead written by Ben Falk. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be overlooked by conventional farmers as unworthy farmland. Falk's wide array of fruit trees, rice paddies (relatively unheard of in the Northeast), ducks, nuts, and earth-inspired buildings is a hopeful image for the future of regenerative agriculture and modern homesteading. The book covers nearly every strategy Falk and his team have been testing at the Whole Systems Research Farm over the past decade, as well as experiments from other sites Falk has designed through his off-farm consulting business. The book includes detailed information on earthworks; gravity-fed water systems; species composition; the site-design process; site management; fuelwood hedge production and processing; human health and nutrient-dense production strategies; rapid topsoil formation and remineralization; agroforestry/silvopasture/grazing; ecosystem services, especially regarding flood mitigation; fertility management; human labor and social-systems aspects; tools/equipment/appropriate technology; and much more, complete with gorgeous photography and detailed design drawings. The Resilient Farm and Homestead is more than just a book of tricks and techniques for regenerative site development, but offers actual working results in living within complex farm-ecosystems based on research from the "great thinkers" in permaculture, and presents a viable home-scale model for an intentional food-producing ecosystem in cold climates, and beyond. Inspiring to would-be homesteaders everywhere, but especially for those who find themselves with "unlikely" farming land, Falk is an inspiration in what can be done by imitating natural systems, and making the most of what we have by re-imagining what's possible. A gorgeous case study for the homestead of the future.
