Getting Started In Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens |  | Authors: Ross Mars, Jenny Mars
Publisher: Permanent Publications
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 102
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 185623035X
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9781856230353
ASIN: 185623035X
Publication Date: October 17, 2007
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Product Description
Permaculture experts Ross and Jenny Mars outline the steps to transform your garden into a productive living system. Modeled upon the development of Candlelight Farm, and illustrated with photographs, this guide encourages the reader to make positive steps towards reconciling human impact with nature following the permaculture ideal.
Permaculture is based on the ethics of caring for people and our planet. It is about growing your own healthy food, being resourceful and environmentally responsible. Permaculture concepts and ideas can be applied successfully from small suburban units to large farming properties.
Getting Started in Permaculture delivers step-by-step knowledge for a variety of useful projects including: making herb fertilizers, compost, organic sprays for pest control, and much, much more. It also includes how to recycle your soft drink bottles, waste paper, and tires in a number of useful projects such as ponds, fruit fly traps, retailing walls, and solar stills.
As part of Permanent Publications Simple Living Series, this practical and accessible guide for gardeners of all skill levels serves as an ideal introduction to the world of permaculture.
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 Great introduction to Permaculture February 14, 2009
bythebrook (San Francisco)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Rather than tackling the Designer's Manual or even Permaculture in a Nutshell, go to this little book for a great hands-on approach to what Permaculture is about. You'll be able to complete a few of the projects that afternoon.
Best Permaculture hands on book September 12, 2009
life wandered
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
As I'm now starting in the permaculture, I really wanted a book that is practical, and gives you suggestions that could be useful and also easy to do. This book was the best! I was able put the principles in practice as I opened the book, simple but very effective information. Out of all the permaculture books that I have this one has been easy to use and with little skills and know how you could effectively put these tools to use. If you're looking for a book to get you started this is the one to buy.
Hands on starter kit October 19, 2009
R. Hile
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Quick read. Well written. Simple but good illustrations. Very practical guide with hands on projects to get started using permaculture design principles.
Getting Started in Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects ... April 2, 2009
Barbara Worth (Arkansas, USA)
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I know both Ross and Jenny Mars. He was the first person in Western Australia, AU to get an advanced degree in Permaculture. They are extremely nice and very knowledgeable. Great information in all their books. I highly recommend anything they write.
Barb Worth
USA
50 projects for your garden November 11, 2007
A. M. Gladding (Coastal Mountains, Northern CA)
45 out of 48 found this review helpful
After a brief discussion of what permaculture is and hopes to accomplish, the authors present 50 projects for your garden. Some of them are common garden structures and some are aimed at reusing tires and plastic soda bottles. Retaining wall, ponds, planting mounds from used tires. Waterers, slug traps for plastic bottles, newspaper planting pots. Making compost, liquid fetilizers, hot houses, cold frames, shade houses. A section on making paper, soap, and cleaners.
Not an indepth discussion of permaculture, but a basic get started projects book.
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