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Permaculture Books
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,924 ratings — published 2001
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,723 ratings — published 1988
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,124 ratings — published 1975
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,256 ratings — published 1991
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.16 — 791 ratings — published 2002
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,165 ratings — published 2004
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.48 — 671 ratings — published 2005
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.36 — 795 ratings — published 2013
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,340 ratings — published 2013
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.63 — 336 ratings — published
Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.94 — 294 ratings — published 2012
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,342 ratings — published 2005
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.13 — 281 ratings — published 1994
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.44 — 429 ratings — published 2010
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.47 — 506 ratings — published
The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.12 — 333 ratings — published 2012
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,827 ratings — published 2006
Permaculture 1: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements (Permaculture, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 162 ratings — published 1978
People and Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.39 — 77 ratings — published 2012
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,048 ratings — published 1996
Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.13 — 468 ratings — published 2015
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.01 — 962 ratings — published 2013
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.17 — 741 ratings — published 2007
The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 139 ratings — published 2005
Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 182 ratings — published 2014
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,788 ratings — published 1995
Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.48 — 324 ratings — published
Permaculture 2: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture (Permaculture, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.29 — 145 ratings — published 1979
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.12 — 191 ratings — published 2015
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,714 ratings — published 1979
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.46 — 487 ratings — published 2012
Desert or Paradise: Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.36 — 107 ratings — published 2012
Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.03 — 101 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,419 ratings — published 1977
The Permaculture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.87 — 102 ratings — published 1994
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,073 ratings — published 2006
How to Make a Forest Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 131 ratings — published 2002
Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.96 — 347 ratings — published
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.51 — 170,011 ratings — published 2013
Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.02 — 236 ratings — published 2015
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.84 — 492 ratings — published 2013
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (Conservation Classics)
by (shelved 20 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.45 — 132 ratings — published 1978
Permaculture in a Nutshell (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.95 — 280 ratings — published 1993
RetroSuburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.52 — 184 ratings — published
The Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.31 — 74 ratings — published 1993
Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.20 — 493 ratings — published 2014
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,369 ratings — published
The Permaculture Home Garden: How To Grow Great Tasting Fruit And Vegetables The Organic Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.43 — 97 ratings — published 1996
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,507 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,662 ratings — published 2009
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people.
Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”
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Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”
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“Digging in the dirt and shoveling manure in the corral is not going to strip off the layers of armor the first day or the second day or even the twelfth. But over time, they're part of something that they start from scratch and see through to the end. How often have they had the chance to do that? To feel like they created something? Especially something that could help keep another human being alive?”
― Grace from the Garden: Changing the World One Garden at a Time
― Grace from the Garden: Changing the World One Garden at a Time
