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  1. Perma-culture one

    B. C. Mollison and D. Holmgre Permaculture One presents unique strategies for creating a food-producing system specifically suited to your needs, whether you garden in your backyard or engage in full-scale farming. By carefully designing a system around functional relationships between plant and animal species you can create...
    631.584 MOL

  2. Seed Saving and Nurseries: Permaculture Resource Book Module 5

    No page numbers, illustrated
    631.5 UNK

  3. Plants for Use in Permaculture in the Tropics (2nd edition)

    Franklin Martin Current systems for development of the world's resources are explotive and can be seen to be destroying the environment for people as well as for plants and animals in order to obtain short term benefits. This book examines the challenges and solutions to keep the land productive and viable.
    531.584 MAR

  4. Plants for use in permaculture in the tropics 1st edition

    Franklin W. Martin. Current systems for development of the world's resources are explotive and can be seen to be destroying the environment for people as well as for plants and animals in order to obtain short term benefits. This book examines the challenges and solutions to keep the land productive and viable.
    631.584 MAR

  5. The Bio-Integrated Farm: A Revolutionary Permaculture-Based System Using Greenhouses, Ponds, Compost Piles, Aquaponics, Chickens, and More

    Shawn Jadrnicek (Author),‎ Stephanie Jadrnicek (Author) The Bio-Integrated Farm is a twenty-first-century manual for managing nature’s resources. This groundbreaking book brings “system farming” and permaculture to a whole new level. Author Shawn Jadrnicek presents new insights into permaculture, moving beyond the philosophical foundation to practical...

  6. Gaia's Garden: A guide to home-scale permaculture @ Second Edition

    Toby Hemenway Second Edition The first edition of Gaia's Garden, sparked the imagination of Americas home gardeners, introducing permacultures central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition...
    635.048 HEM

  7. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol 1) Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape

    Brad Lancaster The award-winningRainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for...
    628.142 LAN | SB.016

  8. The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm The D Acres model for Creating and Managing an Ecologically Designed Educational Center

    The Community-Scale Permaculture Farmdescribes not only the history of the D Acres project, but its evolving principles and practices that are rooted in the land, its inhabitants, and the joy inherent in collective empowerment. For almost twenty years, D Acres of New Hampshire has challenged and...
    631.58 TRO

  9. Community Seed Banks Origins, evolution and prospects

    Ronnie Vernooy et al Despite 25 years of history and the rapid growth in number, organizational diversity and geographical coverage of community seed banks, recognition of their roles and contributions has remained scanty. This book reviews their history, evolution, experiences, successes and failures, challenges and...
    631.521 VER

  10. Amaranth to Zai Holes: ideas for growing food under difficult conditions

    Laura S. Meitzner, Martin L. Price. 2 Copies This is a book of practical ideas. It is written for people who help those who live and make their living under difficult conditions in the tropics and subtropics. What should a development worker do to assist a community? There are no simple answers, but there are many possibilities—...
    633.091 MEI | PI.007, PI.008