Permaculture Design: A step by step guide - Softcover

Aranya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856230910 ISBN 13: 9781856230919

Publisher: Permanent Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Have you read a little about permaculture, watched a few videos, or done an introductory course? Are you excited about the subject but unclear how to put it into practice for yourself? Permaculture Design: A Step-by-Step Guide is just what you need! In this unique, full colour guide, experienced permaculture teacher Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. Whether designing a garden or farm, the steps offered help you identify how to create a more abundant, resilient landscape in your own specific situation. Permaculture Design: A Step-by-Step Guide is based on course worksheets which have been designed, refined and tested on students over time. Linking theory to practice, Aranya places the ethics, principles, philosophies, tools and techniques directly into the context of the process itself. While written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more experienced designer. This guide covers; systems and patterns, land and non-land based design, site surveying and map making, project management, placement and integration, amongst many other topics. Please note that this book has been designed to be compact and easy to carry around as a reference. For this reason it focuses on the design process itself rather than duplicating the lists of plants and techniques already available in many other permaculture books.

About this title

About the Author

Aranya has been experimenting with permaculture since his design course epiphany in 1996. In the years that followed he designed a collection of gardens, along with a few other non-land based designs, writing them all up to gain his Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design 2003. Since that time Aranya has followed a teaching pathway that now involves delivering, on average, ten two-week design courses a year. Aranya is a long-term barefooter, certain that this helps to make him more aware of nature, stay grounded and walk lightly on the Earth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Permanent Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856230910
• ISBN 13: 9781856230919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208