Welcome Jasmine Dale, Author of Permaculture Design Companion!

Good morning!

It feels like an important time to be effective in our projects, conserve our personal energy, and step up our agency. Following a design process is a powerful tool to achieve these outcomes. I'm interested in us all becoming as effective as we can be by unpacking the permaculture design process and exploring how to deepen our permaculture practice.

Welcome to Permies, Jasmine : )

Your book sounds really good.

I'm doing a 4 hour a month PDC, with a focus on a community design as well as one for my own land, so I will try to think up some design questions to ask on the forums this week.

Thanks Kate, applying the principles of thriving ecosystems to community design seems to me a massive resource, I love using the landscape survey as a metaphor for people designs eg warm microclimates might be situations/groupings we feel sheltered/supported; cold microclimates and frost pockets are situations we are best to watch out we don't get a shock or can't grow and thrive.

Welcome to Permies.com!

Hi Jasmine! Nice to see you on here..
We are currently building a lean-to greenhouse on our cabin in Spain with polycarbonate roof inspired by yours & Simon’s shed. Always continue to be inspired by your project and have very fond memories!
Peace n love x

Hello Jasmine. My name is Dale and my daughter is named Jasmine, so the name jumped out at me. I will check out your book.

Hi Jasmine, welcome to Permies! Glad to have you aboard.

Hi everyone, one aspect of design I'm really interested in (and my book explores) is what happens when we combine different modes in our designing e.g. collecting objective data about wind/sun/shade and combining that with intuitive/creative/bodyometer information.As systems thinkers, I have come to see how our design practice really benefits from using lots of different parts of ourselves to capture a whole sense of a place and the people.

Hi Jasmine! A big welcome from our little corner of Northern Spain.

Chad Pivik wrote:Hello Jasmine.
I love the subtitle of your book "A Practical Workbook for Integrating People and Places". Looking on Amazon part of the book description reads, "This unique resource combines analysis, creativity and inner work."    Would you explain a little on this inner work. Thanks

I, too, was looking on Amazon. Will there be a Kindle edition at some point?

Hi, Jasmine! Welcome to permies!!

Welcome to the friendliest forum on the internet!

Diane Kistner wrote: I, too, was looking on Amazon. Will there be a Kindle edition at some point?

The UK publishers do have the Permaculture Design Companion in ebook form, though no immediate plans to release it. However, the whole book is designed to be written in... this may not be apparrent... I made it a workbook deliberately as I love filling in such books myself, and also because I noticed through years of observing well intentioned students, sometimes you need a benevolent taskmaster to get things done and completed. So the book in paper form is designed to help (force!) you to keep chugging on step by step, rigorously applying permaculture tools and principles along the way, writing in your own experience on each page as you apply the exercises. My wish, is that the books are treasured memories and a useful reference, full of the reader's own process.



ps Amazon does take the lion's share of a book sale, so for books in general and mine specifically, it helps us to buy it off the smaller outlets: Chelsea Green US, my own website wwwbeingsomewhere.net and Permanent Publications UK..just a thought, not an order!

Hello Jasmine, welcome from Colombia. Good to have you here. Your book seems very intersting.
Luz

Luz Giraldo wrote:Hello Jasmine, welcome from Colombia. Good to have you here. Your book seems very intersting.
Luz

Thank you Luz, its the harvest of over 10,000 interactions with about a 1000 people over a ten year span of teaching  and learning about permculture for urban and rural settings. During this time I was fortunate to also have my own 9 acres, denuded by over grazing and now very biodiverse and resilient to weather, disease and self reliant in food, water and hydro electric. My wish is that all I learnt from the land, beings and people is harvested and helps other people. Permaculture has been a constant companion, giving me confidence and the tools to steward the land and have the pleasure of witnessing how eager land is to respond to simple design and sensitivity to biodiversity.

Our land in 2009



Abundant in 2017

Jasmine--

Welcome!!!  Though I have read this site for three years by signing up for the dailyish letters, I only joined tonite.  I am happy to learn, yet sad  I was in my sixties to begin this adventure.  Thanks for you desire to share.

gordie soaring hawk wrote:Jasmine--

Welcome!!!  Though I have read this site for three years by signing up for the dailyish letters, I only joined tonite.  I am happy to learn, yet sad  I was in my sixties to begin this adventure.  Thanks for you desire to share.

Never too late! Good to process the sadness and then onwards and upwards, all that's gone before has value when a new path appears.

Jasmine Dale wrote:However, the whole book is designed to be written in... this may not be apparrent... I made it a workbook deliberately as I love filling in such books myself, and also because I noticed through years of observing well intentioned students, sometimes you need a benevolent taskmaster to get things done and completed. So the book in paper form is designed to help (force!) you to keep chugging on step by step, rigorously applying permaculture tools and principles along the way, writing in your own experience on each page as you apply the exercises. My wish, is that the books are treasured memories and a useful reference, full of the reader's own process.

ps Amazon does take the lion's share of a book sale, so for books in general and mine specifically, it helps us to buy it off the smaller outlets: Chelsea Green US, my own website wwwbeingsomewhere.net and Permanent Publications UK..just a thought, not an order!

This is very helpful, Jasmine! Yes, I can see the value of having a paper copy of the book. If I don't win it, I will plan to buy one. I need all the help I can get!

Thank you everyone,glad it's all helping. Trust ourselves, trust the design process and be guided by the intelligence of natural systems!

Trying to think of a post you can put in the Permaculture Design forum so you are entered in the drawing? There's a student doing a survey Research Survey on issues affecting permaculture and it's in this forum, and your responses to him will count! Help him out, and you are entered, Yay, function stacking! :D

Welcome Jasmine! I love the workbook idea; seems very practical. I will definitely check out your book!

Hi Everyone, it's friday night here and my author week is ending. Thank you all for a warm welcome and much food for thought and insight. I'm often around on permies.com, though feel free to get in touch through purple moosage or my website www.beingsomewhere.net. Jasmine x

Jasmine Dale wrote:Hi Everyone, it's friday night here and my author week is ending. Thank you all for a warm welcome and much food for thought and insight. I'm often around on permies.com, though feel free to get in touch through purple moosage or my website www.beingsomewhere.net. Jasmine x

Thank you, Jasmine. I enjoyed it so much and got so much from your postings. Hope I win your book!!!

Thank you so much for coming out to the forums at permies, Jasmine, and answering questions from our community members!

Congratulations to the four winners of Jasmine's beautiful book!

Diane Kistner
Phil Stevens
T Blankinship
Huxley Harter

I'll be PMing each of you--please respond back by Sunday to claim your prize!

Huge thanks to Jasmine for such wonderful discussions this week! Thank you so much for joining us--it's truly been a pleasure!

Thank you Jasmine! Looking forward to reading your book!

Nicole Alderman wrote:Congratulations to the four winners of Jasmine's beautiful book!
Huge thanks to Jasmine for such wonderful discussions this week! Thank you so much for joining us--it's truly been a pleasure!

I can't remember when I've been so excited and thrilled about something! Thank you, Jasmine, for really getting me turned on to this work again! I'm so looking forward to working through the book. Wow. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!

Congratulations to all of you! I hope you put the books to good use, saving the planet one design at a time.
Thanks to Jasmine Dale for supporting this promotion.

Hurrai! What a heart warming, brilliant design jam of a week! Thank you All, especially Dave Burton for his huge support.

I'm stoked to be a winner and really looking forward to the book. Thanks for all that you do, Jasmine. That aerial photo says it all and based on the little bit of time I spent in Pembrokeshire many years ago, I hope your neighbours are impressed enough by the results to start spreading the love.

Our friends at Permaculture Magazine have awesomely offered a 25% coupon for Jasmine's awesome book! Here's all the details:

Until the end of May 2020 Permaculture Magazine are also offering permies.com followers a 25% discount on their Permanent Publications book, Jasmine Dale's must-have Permaculture Design Companion: A Practical Workbook for Integrating People and Places (RRP $28.95). Simply click this for their American distributor Chelsea Green https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/permaculture-design-companion/ and enter the code PDC25 at the checkout, in the 'Coupon Code' box, and it will be sent straight out to you!

They've also been so kind to add the 100th Issue of Permaculture Magazine to our dailyish freebies (you can find out more about that HERE)

Aaaand, it looks like Jasmine Dale has viewable pages and testimonials on her website, too! http://www.beingsomewhere.net/pdcbook.htm

Nicole Alderman wrote:Aaaand, it looks like Jasmine Dale has viewable pages and testimonials on her website, too! http://www.beingsomewhere.net/pdcbook.htm

Would be great if there was a pdf version to purchase for Canada! Gets quite steep in price as is. Looks like an awesome resource!!!