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Introduction to Permaculture

By Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay

Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies.

Abundantly illustrated with detailed diagrams and line drawings throughout. Includes a listing of useful Permaculture plants with descriptions and uses, and a further species list in useful categories.

The book is set out as a step-by-step introduction to Permaculture with detailed instructions. Using simple language it describes the range of Permaculture for general consumption.

Very little content of Mollison's other books are found within Introduction to Permaculture.

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  • Site analysis
  • House placement
  • Urban Permaculture
  • Chicken and pig forage systems
  • Orchards and home wood lots
  • Micro-climate influences
  • Selected plant species
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Introduction to Permaculture (Green Cover)

by Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay

This book is the same as the "black cover" Introduction to Permaculture it is just an older version. No further discounts apply.

Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies. Topics include: energy efficient site analysis, planning and design methods, house placement,
design for temperate, dry-land and tropical regions, urban Permaculture garden layouts, land access and community funding systems, chicken and pig forage systems, orchards and home wood lots, how to influence micro-climate and a large section on selected plant species with climatic tolerances, heights and uses.

Abundantly illustrated with detailed diagrams and line drawings throughout. Includes a listing of useful Permaculture plants with descriptions and uses, and a further species list in useful categories.

Introduction to Permaculture
The book is set out as a step-by-step introduction to Permaculture with detailed instructions. Using simple language it describes the range of Permaculture for
general consumption. Very little content of Mollison's other books are found within Introduction to Permaculture.

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  • Energy efficient site analysis
  • Planning and Design methods
  • House Placement
  • Design for temperate, dry-land and tropical regions
  • Urban Permaculture garden layouts
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Permaculture Two

by Bill Mollison

This book is about design.

It is a practical book dealing with the elements of design which create a sustainable system. Energy benefits are discussed relating to both domestic and broad acre environments.

Permaculture Two is about design, not gardening or livestock per se but as elements in a system intended to serve man, and the ends of good ecology.

"Good teachers have nothing to give but enthusiasm to learn; they cannot with the best will in the world, give their students knowledge. Thus it is 'how' to design, rather than designing your site, which I am attempting here".

Bill Mollison 

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  • Design in Landscape
  • Soil Improvement
  • Broadscale Techniques
  • Design for difficult climates
  • Structures
  • Waterworks
  • Free range poultry design
  • Permaculture and community
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PERMACULTURE: A Designers Manual

by Bill Mollison

This is the definitive Permaculture design manual in print since 1988. It is the textbook and curriculum for the 72-hour Certificate course in Permaculture Design.

Written for teachers, students and designers, it follows on and greatly enlarges on the initial introductory texts, permaculture One (1978) and Permaculture Two (1979) both of which are still in demand over twenty years after publication.

Very little of the material found in this book is reproduced from the former texts. It covers design methodologies and strategies for both urban and rural applications, describing property design and natural farming techniques.

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  • Designers' Manual
  • Design methods
  • Understanding patterns
  • The Humid Tropics
  • Dryland Strategies
  • Humid Cool to Cold Climates
  • Trees and their energy
  • Aquaculture
  • Concepts and Themes in Design
  • Soils and Water
  • Earthworking and Earth Resources
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The Power of Duck - Integrated Rice and Duck Farming

By Takao Furuno

If you are like us, on a quest for knowledge about sustainable design systems...

HAD ENOUGH?

We're talking about the rubbish popularised by chemical companies that rice production is chemical dependent – 10,000 Japanese rice growers have proved otherwise.
This book is written by a farmer for farmers – a complete guide to integrated duck and rice farming.

Takao Furuno, a Japanese rice farmer has been producing sustainable, profitable organic rice for the last ten years. Abundantly illustrated, tabled and photographed, this book serves as a text-book for case studies and farmer-evolved natural systems.

'Farmers have increased their yield by 20 to 50 per cent or more in the first year'.

Mae-Wan Ho, Open University, Milton Keyes, U.K.

'By using human imagination and ingenuity, and by co-operating with nature rather than re-engineering it, Takao Furuno has cleared yet another path for a safe, diverse and sustainable agricultural future. So who needs transgenic crops?'

from Soil and Health, February 2000, pp 36–37

Recommended by Bill Mollison:
'A beautiful case history of sustainable agriculture – very finely worked out.'

Bill Mollison

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  • The theory of Integrated Rice and Duck Farming
  • The practice of Integrated Rice and Duck Farming in Japan
  • The potential of Integrated Rice and Duck Farming throughout Asia
  • New Developments in Integrated Rice and Duck Farming

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How can I use Herbs in my Daily Life?

Isabell Shipard

Over 500 herbs, spices and edible plants. An Australian, practical guide to growing, with culinary and medicinal uses.

Isabell writes from her extensive experience, personal observation, wealth of knowledge on herbs, and brings them 'to life' for the reader. Her abounding enthusiasm is contagious, which encourages people to be more self-reliant and self-sufficient in food and medicine; it truly is a life enhancing book, for every person interested in natural health. The book has some amusing, fascinating folklore, and anecdotal true-life incidences of benefits people have experienced with using herbs, which will inspire all readers. The book is totally engrossing with practical ways of using herbs and edibles, a valuable investment in health and well-being.

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  • Herbs relate to health
  • Herbs are rich in antioxidants
  • Herbs aid the digestion
  • Herbs contain pain-relieving properties
  • Herbs strengthen the immune system
  • Value herbs as preventative medicine

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