Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies.

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.

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.

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 

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.

This highly sought after book is back and better than ever!

Don't let the title fool you, this book is a great read and who knows you may just learn how to make your own beer and cheese.

Excellent reading with many great recipes shared.

As McDonalds and fast food chains proliferate and supersede the foods of different world cultures, there is
a danger that traditional processes and recipes will be lost, very much as traditional seeds, customs, dress, and
behaviour have been lost.

Thus, I think a very cogent reason for collecting every possible traditional process in detail is imperative to
preserve traditional seeds and recipes—they work. Just as we need to bring root inoculants with trees to ensure
their nutrition, I believe that we need to bring traditional ferment and cooking methods with any new foods, for
our own nutrition.

While many people make noises about biotechnology providing food for the poor, the actual facts are that the
poor already use a great variety of sophisticated applied microbiological skills, and academic biotechnologists, for
the main part, work for large multinational companies, providing inessential beers or spirits, or monopolising the
condiment, bread and cheese markets.

Increasingly, through varietal selection and gene recombination, and using very large continuous or column
fermentation, large firms are patenting organisms and processes and producing a wide range of medical and
industrial products (and the associated ferment organisms). Very little attention is paid to assisting poor people to
make the most of their foods, and this is what this book is about.

Bill Mollison

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'.

'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?'

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

Bill Mollison