• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Liv Smith
  • Leigh Tate
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Source: Amazon

Author - Graham Bell
Publisher - Permanent Publications

Summary
Permanent Publications says, "Permaculture methods can be applied in the house, the garden, the wider community and on the farm, but it is also a way of life: its lessons and application go far beyond gardening and food growing –  to the way we speak to each other; the way we look after ourselves; the way we keep house; the energy we use and the water we need. Permaculture is not about getting away from it all but taking control of our lives, our individual needs and our common future. Whatever your age and skills, it is a practice rich with practical solutions for creating an enduring and more harmonious way of living."

About the Author
Permanent Publications says, "Graham Bell is an internationally renowned speaker, teacher and writer on Permaculture and a range of allied topics. He lives with his wife Nancy in Britain’s longest surviving intentional food forest at Garden Cottage."


Where to get it?
Permanent Publications
amazon us
amazon uk
Amazon.ca


Related Videos

Permaculture Methods of Producing an Egg



From the video description:
"A permaculture egg comes from a healthy, low-energy environment. Some metal is required for things like roofing, guttering, a water tank, and wiring, but this is so minimal it could be possibly produced with renewable energy. The chickens will live in a forage food forest with all they require: hard seeds (legumes), protein-rich fruit (mulberry), greens (comfrey), insects and grit. Clean fresh water is caught from the roof and dispenses through the catchment tank"


Fix Sandy Soil Using Weeds - John Kaisner The Natural Farmer



From the video description:
"This is how you build soil in natural farming. Nature does the work. You set up the right conditions and you get soil below and vegetables to eat above."


How to Make and Maintain Soil Fertility



From the video description:
"Geoff is in the Zaytuna’s kitchen garden today, which may be much larger than the average kitchen garden but provides great design examples for intense, small-space gardening. Kitchen gardens can be intensely cultivated, easy, diverse, and fertile. The mix of crops grown can be flowers, vegetables, herbs, salad greens, and perennial overstories.  Beds are as easy as putting down a layer of cardboard/paper, topping it with a thick layer of mulch, and adding pockets of compost to plant in."


Related Threads
replacing irrigation with permaculture
Plant more shrubs in your food forest
Permaculture design basics
9 ways to add nitrogen to your garden soil
The 9 Most Important Regenerative Agriculture Techniques For Large Farms
fruit tree guilds


Related Articles
How a Small British Garden Became a Mature Food Forest
Permaculture Design in 5 Steps
Start a Permaculture Orchard Using the NAP Method
Design a Garden That Works With Nature
An Intro to Permaculture Design and Principles


Related Websites
Graham Bell - Twitter, FaceBook,


READ A PREVIEW OF THE BOOK HERE!
COMMENTS:
 
gardener
Posts: 1346
Location: Tennessee
872
homeschooling kids urban books writing homestead
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I give this book 7 out of 10 acorns.

That's a low number of acorns, but it's not at all this book's fault!  It would get more acorns from me, if there weren't now, since it was published in 1992, many more books on the topic of Permaculture in day-to-day life. The Permaculture Way is somewhat dated in its references to conditions in the early 90's, some of which have gotten worse (the state of the world) and some better (Permaculture growing year by year in international consciousness). I think it is a useful book still, and it seems to be one of the first Permaculture lifestyle books--a sort of proto- Gaia's Garden. But now, since we have books such as Hemenway's, this small volume can serve well as a very British summary of things to consider about Permaculture vs. modern lifestyles, including the topics of energy, water, and gardening, as one would expect--but also related social aspects of Permaculture.

And that is the part of the book I like the very best, and refer to most often, the chapters covering social topics: Chapter 3: Real Capital--We All Have What it Takes and Chapter 4: Making a Personal Stocktake--You Are Your Best Asset.  After (non-hysterically) outlining the grim scenario of resource destruction in the world today (well- 30 years ago), Bell puts the reader front and center in a consideration of assessing and valuing the contribution s/he can make to the natural world, including the humans in it.

Encouraging and hopeful, the book also has a few cartoons (with understated British humor), and several helpful illustrations and diagrams.

 
Hold that thought. Tiny ad:
2024 Permaculture Adventure Bundle
https://permies.com/w/bundle
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic