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Permanent agriculture - abundance by design
"The wealth of practical knowledge in The Permaculture Handbook is a welcome addition to North America's canon of books on permaculture design, and will serve other regions as well. Peter Bane's broad and well-tested experience in ecological living will guide homeowners, gardeners, and small farmers toward designing and living in lushly productive and harmonious landscapes."
― Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
The Permaculture Handbook is a step-by-step, beautifully illustrated guide to creating resilient and prosperous households and neighborhoods, complemented by extensive case studies of three successful farmsteads and market gardens. This comprehensive manual casts garden farming as both an economic opportunity and a strategy for living well with less money. It shows how, by mimicking the intelligence of nature and applying appropriate technologies such as solar and environmental design, permaculture can:
- Create an abundance of fresh, nourishing local produce
- Reduce dependence on expensive, polluting fossil fuels
- Drought-proof our cities and countryside
- Convert waste into wealth
Permaculture is about working with the earth and with each other to repair the damage of industrial overreach and to enrich the living world that sustains us. The Permaculture Handbook is the definitive, practical North American guide to this revolutionary practice, and is a must-read for anyone concerned about creating food security, resilience and a legacy of abundance rather than depletion.
Peter Bane : has been the publisher and editor of Permaculture Activist magazine for over 20 years. As an experienced permaculture site designer Peter has taught permaculture extensively in North and South America for nearly two decades. A prolific writer in journals and collections on forestry, building, and all things sustainable, he consults with universities and municipal governments as well as for private landowners. Peter helped create Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina, and is now pioneering suburban farming in Bloomington, Indiana.
Acknowledgments
Foreword by David Holmgren
Part I: Attitudes
1. Garden Farming
2. Who Am I to Farm?
3. Gardening the Planet
4. Permaculture Principles
5. Learning the Language of Design
6. A Garden Farming Pattern Language
Part II: Elements
Case Study A: Renaissance Farm, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
7. Land — Scales and Strategies
8. Labor — Can You Lend a Helping Hand?
9. Running on Sunshine
10. Water from Another Time
Case Study B: Jerome's Organics, Basalt, Colorado, USA
11. Soil – the Real Dirt
12. Plants, Crops and Seeds
13. Setting Plant Priorities
Case Study C: Old 99 Farm, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
14. Animals for the Garden Farm
15. Living with Wildlife
16. Trees and Shrubs, Orchards, Woodlands and Forest Gardens
17. Productive Trees and Where to Grow Them
18. Structures, Energy and Technology
Part III: Outcomes
Case Study D: Radical Roots Farm, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
19. Diet and Food
20. Culture and Community
21. Markets and Outreach
22. Making the Change
Appendix 1: Metric Conversion Table
Appendix 2: Bee Forage Species
Appendix 3: Nitrogen-Fixing Species and Biomass Producers
Endnotes
Index
About the Author