A comprehensive guide to permaculture from experienced practitioners on the frontlines of regenerative design. Beautifully illustrated with photography from 90 established permaculture projects, this book showcases the creativity and resilience of a movement already putting solutions into practice. Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, the authors show how permaculture’s nature-inspired principles can turn homes, gardens, farms, schools, and communities into resilient and abundant ecosystems. Blending practical know-how with the latest research, this book distils years of field-tested strategies into a toolkit for thriving in the face of climate and biodiversity crises. Readers will discover solutions for: . No-dig vegetable cultivation and sustainable market gardening . Designing forest gardens and food forests with perennial vegetables, berries, fruit, and nut trees . Establishing self-feeding chicken systems and nut forests . Practicing close-to-nature forestry with native species . Cultivating grains without ploughing . Building carbon-storing, low-energy homes from local natural materials . Implementing community-scale renewable energy solutions . Recycling water through aquaculture and ecological wastewater treatment . Strengthening resilient rural urban networks . Exploring new approaches to democracy and regenerative economies Comprehensive, practical, and deeply grounded in experience, Permaculture is both a handbook for action and an inspiring vision of a regenerative future.
