Earth User's Guide to Permaculture

by Rosemary Morrow, Rob Allsop (Illustrator)

Overview

This completely revised and updated edition of Rosemary Morrow's highly successful Earth User's Guide to Permaculture is a straight-forward manual of practical permaculture. This book will be most beneficial if you apply it to the space where you live and work. The same principles apply for becoming more sustainable and living lightly whether you live in a small city apartment with a balcony, in a house with a garden in the suburbs, or on acreage in the country. Included in this new edition are chapters on seed-saving, permaculture at work, integrated pest management, information about domestic as well as rural water usage, a non-destructive approach towards dealing with weeks and wildlife, and designing to withstand a disaster. Earth User's Guide to Permaculture is suitable for beginners as well as experienced permaculture practitioners looking for new ideas in moving towards greater self-reliance and sustainable living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780975078679
Publisher:	Melliodora Publishing
Publication date:	05/18/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

Born in Perth, Rowe was claimed early by the Earth; plants, animals, stones, weather. Some years in the Kimberleys as a young girl confirmed it. She trained in agriculture science with which she was very disappointed, then moved to France where she lived in the L'Arche community. Later at Jordans Village in England she realised she would become a Quaker. Back in Australia in the 1980s Rowe's Permaculture Design Course provided the basis for a concern for Earth restoration. She considers permaculture to be 'sacred knowledge' to be carried and shared with others. Since then, when asked, she has travelled to teach the PDC to others who, due to circumstances, could not access it any other way. This took her to immediate post-war Vietnam as well as Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia and other countries. Rowe's present concern is to make teaching sustainable and encourage others to succeed her as teachers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: An observing and appraising eye 

1.   Starting permaculture

2.   Permaculture's ethical underpinnings

Part Two: Ecological themes in permaculture

3.   Ecology: life's networks

4.   The wonder of water

5.   Climates and microclimates

6.   Soils: living organisms

7.   Trees, forests and windbreaks

8.   Our plant and seed heritage

Part Three: Applying permaculture

9.   Reading your land 

10.   Developing your design methods 

11.   How and where we live: Zone 0 

12.   Your garden: Zone I 

13.   The food forest: Zone II 

14.   The birds and the bees in the food forest

15.   If you are farming: Zone III

16.   Harvest forests: Zone IV

17.   Natural conservation forests: Zone V

18.   Other cultures and places

19.   Permaculture at the office, shop and factory

Part Four: Adding resilience to design

20.   Design for disasters

21.   Managing pests: IPM

22.   Living with wildlife

23.   Weeds: guardians of the soil

24.   Aquaculture: the water permaculture

Part Five: Social permaculture

25.   Money matters: permaculture, wealth and livelihood

26.   A sense of place

27.   Living in communities, villages, suburbs and cities

References, websites and resources

Index