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Permaculture according to Wikipedia:
"Permaculture is a branch of ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction and integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.[1][2] The term permaculture (as a systematic method) was first coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978. The word permaculture originally referred to "permanent agriculture" [3] but was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture," as it was seen that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming philosophy."
"Twelve design principles
Twelve Permaculture design principles articulated by David Holmgren in his
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability:[15]
Twelve Permaculture design principles articulated by David Holmgren in his
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability:[15]
- Observe and interact: By taking time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation.
- Catch and store energy: By developing systems that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use them in times of need.
- Obtain a yield: Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing.
- Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well.
- Use and value renewable resources and services: Make the best use of nature's abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources.
- Produce no waste: By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
- Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
- Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other.
- Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes.
- Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides.
- Use edges and value the marginal: The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system.
- Creatively use and respond to change: We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and then intervening at the right time."
Permaculture - Emilia Hazelip - Synergistic Garden
An educational video on no-till synergistic gardening that describes the step-by-step processes developed by Emilia Hazelip to create an ecological agriculture. She became interested in Fukuoka's work in 1977 and this video shows the cultural and climatological adaptations she has developed in the course of years of research.
A synergistic garden is an ecosystem that is consciously designed to allow all the dynamic life forms present in a wild soil to remain present while still growing crops (on whatever scale).
It is that simple. But that's not the view commonly held in the sphere of science or in the politics of agribusiness which rule France. Emilia exclaims passionately: "The living world is not understood by the technician, and since it is not understood, it is not studied for its diversity. People always want to apply mechanical laws to it..."
A synergistic garden is an ecosystem that is consciously designed to allow all the dynamic life forms present in a wild soil to remain present while still growing crops (on whatever scale).
It is that simple. But that's not the view commonly held in the sphere of science or in the politics of agribusiness which rule France. Emilia exclaims passionately: "The living world is not understood by the technician, and since it is not understood, it is not studied for its diversity. People always want to apply mechanical laws to it..."
Seeds of Permaculture - Les Graines de la Permaculture - English - French subs
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary.
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
We start with a 20 minute Permaculture Classroom as Geoff explains the patterns of a Food Forest and the essential principles of “time stacking” your garden with the right mix of support species that feed and protect your fledgling fruit trees into maturity. We then join Geoff in the field as he puts the theory into action, planting the seeds and watching the system grow.
We end up at Tagari Farm – established by Permaculture founding father, Bill Mollision – which was abandoned years ago, but planted according to Permaculture design principles. Would this Food Forest survive on its own?
We start with a 20 minute Permaculture Classroom as Geoff explains the patterns of a Food Forest and the essential principles of “time stacking” your garden with the right mix of support species that feed and protect your fledgling fruit trees into maturity. We then join Geoff in the field as he puts the theory into action, planting the seeds and watching the system grow.
We end up at Tagari Farm – established by Permaculture founding father, Bill Mollision – which was abandoned years ago, but planted according to Permaculture design principles. Would this Food Forest survive on its own?
Harvesting Water the Permaculture Way
Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton designs and builds a dam and water harvesting system on a 6 acre farm at Woolgoolga in NSW as they tackle the process of walking over the landscape looking at the features of the farm as they devise a creative way for the 15 tonne excavator to dig a swale and dam system through the property to harvest water passively.
We see Geoff arrive onto the site as he determines its strengths and weaknesses and with the aid of computer animation we see the plan of the site and its creative options take shape. The students then survey the site with a laser and dumpy level and peg the entire area.
We see Geoff arrive onto the site as he determines its strengths and weaknesses and with the aid of computer animation we see the plan of the site and its creative options take shape. The students then survey the site with a laser and dumpy level and peg the entire area.
Riparian Forest Buffers
Ας μιλήσουμε για το χώμα - Let's talk about soil (Greek subs)
VIDEOS by Geoff Lawton:
How to Survive the Coming Crises (VIDEO - French and English subs)
How to Survive the Coming Crises (VIDEO - French and English subs)
Other Videos by Geoff Lawton:
- PROPERTY PURCHASE CHECK LIST
- 5 ACRE ABUNDANCE ON A BUDGET
- URBAN PERMACULTURE
- ABSOLUTE IN ABUNDANCE
- FEED CHICKENS WITHOUT GRAIN
- FOOD FOREST SUBURB
- REFORESTING WITH GOATS
- COLD CLIMATE PERMACULTURE
- ROOFTOP FARM
- POWER OF BAMBOO
- PERENNIAL ABUNDANCE
- PERMACULTURE FISHPONDS
- DESERT OASIS
- COLD CLIMATE FUTURE
- GABIONS
- COMMUNITY GARDENS
- CELL GRAZING
- EARTHWORKS COURSE
- CHICKEN TRACTOR ON STEROIDS
- LESSONS FROM THE RUSTBELT
- STUDENT PROPERTY TOUR
- FOOD FORESTS ACROSS CLIMATES
- BIOGAS SYSTEM
- AN OASIS IN THE AMERICAN DESERT
- A CANADIAN URBAN GARDEN
- FISH PONDS OF MOLOKAI
- PERMACULTURE FOR PROFIT
- PERMACULTURE IN PARADISE
- $500 HOUSE
- HIGH COLD DRY AND WINDY
- FROM MONOCULTURE TO PERMACULTURE
- HEATING YOUR GLASSHOUSE
- HOW TO CREATE A PERMACULTURE DESIGN
See also links here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Lawton
I personally recommend this site: http://www.permaculture.co.uk/
Videos, articles, magazines, books
Even if this site contains a lot of free stuff, please buy something - we all have to survive - even our teachers. :>)
Videos, articles, magazines, books
Even if this site contains a lot of free stuff, please buy something - we all have to survive - even our teachers. :>)
Maddy Harland:
"I really understand about not having much money. I don't earn much working for Permaculture magazine - none of us do - in fact we all earn a fraction of what we would earn in the mainstream world. That is our choice but we have had to learn to be thrifty.
We are also passionate about permaculture and we do not want money to be an obstacle so we have also set up many free or low costs ways of learning about permaculture since we started publishing in 1990."
Maddy Harland is the editor and co-founder of Permaculture magazine and Permanent Publications.
"I really understand about not having much money. I don't earn much working for Permaculture magazine - none of us do - in fact we all earn a fraction of what we would earn in the mainstream world. That is our choice but we have had to learn to be thrifty.
We are also passionate about permaculture and we do not want money to be an obstacle so we have also set up many free or low costs ways of learning about permaculture since we started publishing in 1990."
Maddy Harland is the editor and co-founder of Permaculture magazine and Permanent Publications.
Learn Permaculture Design for Free by Maddy Harland
Learning permaculture design can be expensive, so Maddy Harland comes up with a plan to study for free with friends plus she finds free PDC videos, books and low cost resources.
Learning permaculture design can be expensive, so Maddy Harland comes up with a plan to study for free with friends plus she finds free PDC videos, books and low cost resources.
You will also find 36 free eBooks about permaculture and other useful stuff here:
www.green-shopping.co.uk/ebooks/free-ebooks.html and we are adding to this list all the time.
www.green-shopping.co.uk/ebooks/free-ebooks.html and we are adding to this list all the time.
As a subscriber to Permaculture magazine you also get all our archives (that's over 80 magazines since 1992!) free to read online - if you subscribe digitally is costs £10 (the equivalent of $15). It is an amazing deal.
www.exacteditions.com/read/permaculture?sid=356
www.exacteditions.com/read/permaculture?sid=356
Permaculture: practical solutions for self-reliance is a bestselling international green/environmental magazine.
Its 88 pages are packed with inspiring articles written by leading experts alongside the readers’ own tips and solutions.
Published quarterly, this pioneering magazine is full of money saving ideas for your home, garden and community. It features thought provoking articles on:
• organic gardening
• food & drink
• renewable technology and green building
• education, health and economics
• transition towns and ecovillages
• personal and community development
• sustainable agriculture and agroforestry
• and much more
It is also full of reviews of the latest books, dvds, tools and products, details of courses and access to contacts who will help you achieve your own goals and dreams.
Permaculture offers innovative ways for you to deal with our changing climate and its effect on us all. Taking its inspiration from robust, biodiverse natural systems, Permaculture offers practical ways for all of us to live more sustainable, harmonious and productive lives.
Increasing numbers of people worldwide, including many celebrities and experts (there is even a permaculture garden at the White House), are taking their inspiration from permaculture and redesigning their lives. You can too.
Established in 1992, the print edition has over 100,000 readers per issue, and www.permaculture.co.uk receives over 4 million page views a year.
Don’t accept an era of cynicism, climate denial, greenwash and passivity, turn a new page and pick-up a copy of Permaculture.
Its 88 pages are packed with inspiring articles written by leading experts alongside the readers’ own tips and solutions.
Published quarterly, this pioneering magazine is full of money saving ideas for your home, garden and community. It features thought provoking articles on:
• organic gardening
• food & drink
• renewable technology and green building
• education, health and economics
• transition towns and ecovillages
• personal and community development
• sustainable agriculture and agroforestry
• and much more
It is also full of reviews of the latest books, dvds, tools and products, details of courses and access to contacts who will help you achieve your own goals and dreams.
Permaculture offers innovative ways for you to deal with our changing climate and its effect on us all. Taking its inspiration from robust, biodiverse natural systems, Permaculture offers practical ways for all of us to live more sustainable, harmonious and productive lives.
Increasing numbers of people worldwide, including many celebrities and experts (there is even a permaculture garden at the White House), are taking their inspiration from permaculture and redesigning their lives. You can too.
Established in 1992, the print edition has over 100,000 readers per issue, and www.permaculture.co.uk receives over 4 million page views a year.
Don’t accept an era of cynicism, climate denial, greenwash and passivity, turn a new page and pick-up a copy of Permaculture.
Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line
Videos of Bill Mollison that you can download or/and watch online:
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These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. They are a definitive selection from our original 16 part series. These tapes bear many viewings and will benefit anyone who wants to learn how to help regenerate the earth - from back yard to bio-region. Teachers of permaculture have found these tapes to be a valuable coaching tool - edited to one hour.
The Function Of Design
This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design.
Fundamentals Of Pattern
From a singular event all other events are set in motion in recognizable and predictable patterns This pattern recognition is the core of design in Permaculture.
Pattern Application
Efficiency of energy, resources, and time, and the creation of highly productive systems are the results of good Permaculture design. The methods are obvious once we have become co-creative with the forces of nature.
Home Gardening
Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. These are basic Permacultural techniques.
Trees 1
The tree is life - profound, magnificent, and mysterious. To learn what little we can know of trees is sufficient to leave one awestruck and reverent.
Trees 2
Why is a tree green? Where does a tree end or begin? Why have all human societies destroyed the tree? A Mollison rave.
Farmer's Trees
These are very specific trees which are used around the world for their ability to improve
soils. They are invaluable in range for livestock, as well as in fields under cultivation.
Forests and Woodlands
Methods to plant, sustain, and best utilize woodland and wood for fuel, forage, windbreak and construction.
Pasture And Range Restoration
What is cultura promiscua? To maintain functional bio-diversity is a basic tenet of Permaculture. Severely degraded land can be easily restored to highly productive land by using good observation techniques, plants and animals in succession, and common sense.
Soil Conditioning
... a continuation of #10. Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns described in these two videos can be replicated in any type of Permaculture system, and scaled to any size.
Water
...a continuation of the Trees video. Potable water - where does it come from? How did it get there? What has become of it? What we can do to ensure that we will have safe water to drink, and to conserve as much of this precious material as possible.
Aquaculture
Once one has learned to harvest water, then the real fun begins with production of the myriad of foods and marketable commodities hosted by ponds and other water-rich environments.
Planting In Drylands
There are a multitude of ways to harvest, conserve, and utilize water. These strategies apply to coastal regions or islands with with zero precipitation, arid lands, as well as to areas with plentiful seasonal rainfall.
Drylands 1
As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally in arid land can provide all necessary nutrition for people and animals. The strategies discussed arise from years of observation in the deserts of Australia and from the peoples of Kalahari.
Drylands 2
... continuation of Drylands 1. Never, never irrigate the desert. The devastation caused by irrigation of arid land is irreparable. But there are alternatives: methods to set up a drought proof system. This is serious Permaculture!
Working at Ground Level
A documentary on the permaculture work done in Ecuador by the Rainforest Information Center, Centro de Investigatión de los Bosques Tropicales.
The Function Of Design
This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design.
Fundamentals Of Pattern
From a singular event all other events are set in motion in recognizable and predictable patterns This pattern recognition is the core of design in Permaculture.
Pattern Application
Efficiency of energy, resources, and time, and the creation of highly productive systems are the results of good Permaculture design. The methods are obvious once we have become co-creative with the forces of nature.
Home Gardening
Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. These are basic Permacultural techniques.
Trees 1
The tree is life - profound, magnificent, and mysterious. To learn what little we can know of trees is sufficient to leave one awestruck and reverent.
Trees 2
Why is a tree green? Where does a tree end or begin? Why have all human societies destroyed the tree? A Mollison rave.
Farmer's Trees
These are very specific trees which are used around the world for their ability to improve
soils. They are invaluable in range for livestock, as well as in fields under cultivation.
Forests and Woodlands
Methods to plant, sustain, and best utilize woodland and wood for fuel, forage, windbreak and construction.
Pasture And Range Restoration
What is cultura promiscua? To maintain functional bio-diversity is a basic tenet of Permaculture. Severely degraded land can be easily restored to highly productive land by using good observation techniques, plants and animals in succession, and common sense.
Soil Conditioning
... a continuation of #10. Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns described in these two videos can be replicated in any type of Permaculture system, and scaled to any size.
Water
...a continuation of the Trees video. Potable water - where does it come from? How did it get there? What has become of it? What we can do to ensure that we will have safe water to drink, and to conserve as much of this precious material as possible.
Aquaculture
Once one has learned to harvest water, then the real fun begins with production of the myriad of foods and marketable commodities hosted by ponds and other water-rich environments.
Planting In Drylands
There are a multitude of ways to harvest, conserve, and utilize water. These strategies apply to coastal regions or islands with with zero precipitation, arid lands, as well as to areas with plentiful seasonal rainfall.
Drylands 1
As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally in arid land can provide all necessary nutrition for people and animals. The strategies discussed arise from years of observation in the deserts of Australia and from the peoples of Kalahari.
Drylands 2
... continuation of Drylands 1. Never, never irrigate the desert. The devastation caused by irrigation of arid land is irreparable. But there are alternatives: methods to set up a drought proof system. This is serious Permaculture!
Working at Ground Level
A documentary on the permaculture work done in Ecuador by the Rainforest Information Center, Centro de Investigatión de los Bosques Tropicales.
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