Getting Started In Permaculture
Product Description
Permaculture experts Ross and Jenny Mars outline the steps to transform your garden into a productive living system. Modeled upon the development of Candlelight Farm, and illustrated with photographs, this guide encourages the reader to make positive steps towards reconciling human impact with nature – following the permaculture ideal.
Permaculture is based on the ethics of caring for people and our planet. It is about growing your own healthy food, being resourceful and environmentally responsible. Permaculture concepts and ideas can be applied successfully from small suburban units to large farming properties.
Getting Started in Permaculture delivers step-by-step knowledge for a variety of useful projects including: making herb fertilizers, compost, organic sprays for pest control, and much, much more. It also includes how to recycle your soft drink bottles, waste paper, and tires in a number of useful projects such as ponds, fruit fly traps,… More >>
Getting Started In Permaculture
After a brief discussion of what permaculture is and hopes to accomplish, the authors present 50 projects for your garden. Some of them are common garden structures and some are aimed at reusing tires and plastic soda bottles. Retaining wall, ponds, planting mounds from used tires. Waterers, slug traps for plastic bottles, newspaper planting pots. Making compost, liquid fetilizers, hot houses, cold frames, shade houses. A section on making paper, soap, and cleaners.
Not an indepth discussion of permaculture, but a basic get started projects book.
Rather than tackling the Designer’s Manual or even Permaculture in a Nutshell, go to this little book for a great hands-on approach to what Permaculture is about. You’ll be able to complete a few of the projects that afternoon.
As I’m now starting in the permaculture, I really wanted a book that is practical, and gives you suggestions that could be useful and also easy to do. This book was the best! I was able put the principles in practice as I opened the book, simple but very effective information. Out of all the permaculture books that I have this one has been easy to use and with little skills and know how you could effectively put these tools to use. If you’re looking for a book to get you started this is the one to buy.
Quick read. Well written. Simple but good illustrations. Very practical guide with hands on projects to get started using permaculture design principles.
I know both Ross and Jenny Mars. He was the first person in Western Australia, AU to get an advanced degree in Permaculture. They are extremely nice and very knowledgeable. Great information in all their books. I highly recommend anything they write.
Barb Worth
USA