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Permaculture Resources
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Plant Guilds – Designs & Projects – Ask a PDC Graduate – More…
Here are a three of our favorite video clips on why and how to hold water on the landscape.
These are profound in terms of demonstrating how we can heal damaged lands.
| Geoff Lawton on “Greening the Desert” |
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Film Documentary - Hope in a Changing Climate – The Trailer |
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Will Allen – Building Community – not just Food.
Click Here to read the article and see Will present his slide show in a video clip about his work in Milwaukee, WI. Click Here for his Web Site: GrowingPower.org |
 Bill Wilson |
“Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders” Host Jean Feraca interviews Bill about |
 Jean Feraca |
Free “Plant Guilds” eBooklet
9 Useful Plant Guilds
Permaculture Greenhouses
Could this be a solution to small farm profitability, suburban and urban food security, ecological soundness, and economic viability?
| Food production 52-weeks a year using renewable energy and innovative permaculture design (soap bubble insulation, underground thermal mass storage, recycle all waste products into CO2 and energy).
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Best Permaculture Books
Four Titles to Help You Simplify the Selection Process
There are over 100 books on the subject of permaculture, but to help simplify the selection process for the beginning student, these are the four primary books that we can recommend with confidence.
Top Two Introductory Titles
For a great opening to permaculture, these two titles continue to be our favorites—the “Introduction to Permaculture” because it was written by Bill Mollison himself and gives a great overview on the subject — and “Gaia’s Garden” because of the clarity, simplicity and appropriateness of the examples that Toby Hemenway gives that relate to the Midwest-temperate-climate zone.
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Gaia’s Garden |
Introduction to Permaculture |
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Best ‘Advanced’ Permaculture Texts
Both of these titles are a bit more difficult to locate and cost more but are the ultimate reference books for the serious permaculturist.
Bill Mollison’s “A Designers Manual” is still considered the bible of permaculture. The PDC Course is follows the outline of this text.
More recently, another pair of books have been released that we believe are the definitive for laying out permaculture plant guilds in the temperate climate zone. One of our permaculture friends just about cried when he found “Edible Forest Gardens” by Dave Jacke, wondering where they were when he started his permaculture farm years earlier. He said they would have saved him in time and mistakes. This double volume set is also loaded with permaculture design fundamentals. We know Dave personally and of the years of research it took to pull these two volumes together. They are a gift to us all.
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A Designers’ Manual |
Edible Forest Gardens |
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