Permaculture
Permaculture Books
The Living Landscape- Patrick Whitefield [see also in/request from a Somerset Library 577.094 http://www.librarieswest.org.uk/] How to read the landscape.
Plants for a Future- Ken Fern [see also www.pfaf.org which provides an online plant database for many interesting edibles]. This book provides descriptions about an amazing range of less commonly known and grown plants which Ken has personal experience of growing mostly down at the PFAF site in Cornwall.
The Earth Care Manual- Patrick Whitefield. An in depth guide to applying permaculture in a variety of situations.
Permaculture in a Nutshell- Patrick Whitefield. Short introduction.
The One Straw Revolution- Masanobu Fukuoka. Part philosophical and spiritual memoir, part practical guide, part manifesto. An eclectic “little green book” often seemingly on shelves of permaculturists.
Creating a Forest Garden-Martin Crawford. Practical how to guide for the different layers with detailed descriptions of plants for each layer.
Permaculture One- A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements (with David Holmgren)- Bill Mollison
Permaculture Two- Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture- Bill Mollison
Permaculture- A designers manual- Bill Mollison
Permaculture- Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability- David Holmgren
Useful Links
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ Permaculture Association of Britain
http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp Further info on Sepp Holzer's approach. Growing exotic fruits high up in Austria amongst other things.
http://www.permies.com/ Active permaculture and related forum. Mainly US members but some interesting contributions and a good place to share knowledge, ideas and experiments.
http://permaculture.org.au/ The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. Globally active and good hub of information for permaculture projects. Lively forum, and plenty of regularly updated content including video clips. These have included The updated version of greening the desert II http://permaculture.org.au/2009/12/11/greening-the-desert-ii-final/
http://www.veganorganic.net/information-sheets/ Vegan organic information sheets. Series of ten free to download information sheets on range of topics related to growing.
http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/index.php David Holmgren's organised informative site including free downloads outlining permaculture ethics, principles and practice. http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/principles_business.php Rob Hopkins ponders permaculture principles applied to business on same site.
If you ever wondered well just what would I plant in a permaculture garden then this website should help - http://www.perennialveg.org.uk/
Some Video Links
Permaculture in Action - Greening The Desert - Geoff Lawton's Ground Breaking implementation of Permaculture in The Dead Sea Valley. This video illustrates how Permaculture design techniques can restore a Salt Ridden Degraded Landscape to a flourishing and diverse Oasis. For more information about Geoff and his Permaculture work please visit; http://www.permaculture.org.au
Greening the Desert - Revisited - revisit the renowned "Greening the Desert" project, with recent footage from the original site and the new Jordan Valley Permaculture Project.
Permaculture Water Harvesting - Geoff Lawton founding Director of the Permaculture Research Institute talks about Permaculture Water Harvesting techniques, swales and sillways.
A Food Forest Garden - Part 1 - Robert Hart's forest garden
Practical Web Links
Simple solar surveying
Links provided by Permaculture Magazine article in Summer 2010 edition [page 60-61]. Create your own sun path diagram for your location after setting the preferred latitude and longitude to use. http://solardat.uoregon.edu/index.html [prints out your sun path] http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm [Find your latitude and longitude first so you can input in the above Oregon university model]
Vegan Organic Network information sheets Series of ten useful information sheets for download http://www.veganorganic.net/information-sheets/
Self Willed Land website by Mark Fisher- permaculturist and emphasis on wilderness Sample design work introduction to permaculture and many interesting articles http://www.self-willed-land.org.uk/
Sepp Holzer Introduction to techniques employed by Sepp and links to the permies.com forum http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp
Slope and contour measuring tools
How to make and use a bunyip - http://www.permaculture.org/nm/images/uploads/The_Bunyip_Demystified_by_Tim_Murphy.pdf Making and using a bunyip and A frame (tools for measuring slope and identifying contours) http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Bunyip-Water-Levels-and-A-Frame-Levels-Appendix-2.pdf
Water harvesting Lots of useful information and advice about making best use of water available and reducing potential problems. Some clear videos by Brad Lancaster demonstrate the theory well behind some of the principles and techniques making use of muffin tins amongst other things. http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Keyline design Keyline provides a system for guiding design decision-making particularly with the Keyline scale of permanence. Developed by P.A. Yeomans- Australian farmer http://www.permaculture.org.au/resources/KeylineArticle.pdf
P.A.Yeomans website listing services and further resources about his background and explaining a bit more about what Keyline is. http://www.keyline.com.au/
Darren Doherty (another Australian permaculturist) makes much use of Yeomans work on Keyline. His website has links for further information as well as some designs. Also see You tube videos with Darren explaining keyline (often by making sand landscape models on a sunny beach!) http://www.permaculture.biz/
Dynamic accumulators List detailing what minerals different plants are adept at bringing up from the soil http://oregonbd.org/Class/ftp/Accumulators.pdf