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The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture
Permaculture is an often-misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate technology, and biology can be confusing and overwhelming, but The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture simplifies this vast field for practical application. This is a hands-on guide, taking the beginner through each step of the design process, so that anyone can apply permaculture principles to their own life. While the principles are simple, the in-depth topics include every aspect of permaculture:
- building green homes and passive solar design
- growing edible plant communities and forest gardens
- using no-till and natural farming methods
- creating microclimates for extended growing seasons
- raising livestock with ecological foraging techniques
This is a common sense approach to sustainable living that creates a self-sufficient and low-effort home for the people that live there, whether in the city or the country. The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture isn’t a philosophy book, or a dissertation on theory. It is a step-by-step, complete guide to every aspect of permaculture.
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Can you make your own bread (sans bread machine)? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper?
What if the power went out for a month? What if the grocery store closed? Can you make a solar oven? Store food without electricity?
Raise a water buffalo? Make fine linen from stinging nettle? Make your own shampoo? Deliver a baby? Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient?
This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions on how to buy a sheep.
All of the information included meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and tested—either by the author, the military, doctors, or other homesteaders.
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is not a storybook or a cookbook.
It is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches. You can do it! This book can help.
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Reviews….
“I’m loving how thorough it is and how she’s done all the work for the reader, boiling down tons of information into really manageable instructions. It seems like the kind of book any homesteader or wannabe homesteader should have on their shelf, ready for a quick flip through to answer any question. It gives you the basics and then, should you want to dig much deeper, you have a solid foundation from which to spring.” - review from Progressive Pioneer
“In a word…”Wow!” and if you and your family have ever thought about, dreamed about, or are currently trying to live a bit more on the” simpler side of life”, the “do-it-yourself “side of life, the “away- from- the- rat race, and learning -to -rely- upon good- old- fashioned- skills” way of life, then you’ll need to get your hands upon this new book.” - review in Small Town Living
“A compendium of skills for self-sufficiency and survival, this book contains answers to just about every practical question you might have about homesteading.” - recommended by Sierra Club’s The Green Life
“This is definitely the book I want to have in the event that some cataclysmic disaster renders my family isolated from the rest of society. It shows you how to do everything yourself, and I mean everything…I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking to live more independently or to anyone who is simply looking to save money by doing more by themselves.” - review at Frugal Flora
“…it REALLY is the ULTIMATE guide. 600 pages of everything from baking bread, making your own medicines, using bio fuels, and MUCH MUCH MORE! ” - recommended by The Renegade Farmer
“If you are looking for a quick reference book that will give you some very useful information about things you may never have thought of and information about things you have always wanted to know about, then this book is for you. It’s a book I would highly recommend having on your bookshelf if you are interested in sustainable and independent living.” - review from Healthy Homesteading
“This book covers an amazing amount of breadth and is a must for any person interested in living self sustainably.” - review from Finger Lakes Foodie
“The book is easy to read, well made, with lots of color photographs and diagrams, nice thick glossy pages ensure this book will last for a long time, that’s a good thing because once you have this book, you will be referring to it over and over again throughout the years.” - review from Off-Grid.net
