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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,903 ratings — published 2001
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,721 ratings — published 1988
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,022 ratings — published 1975
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,252 ratings — published 1991
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.17 — 789 ratings — published 2002
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,154 ratings — published 2004
Edible Forest Gardens, Vol. 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.48 — 671 ratings — published 2005
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.36 — 794 ratings — published 2013
Restoration Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,317 ratings — published 2013
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.63 — 335 ratings — published
Permaculture Design: A Step by Step Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.93 — 294 ratings — published 2012
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,317 ratings — published 2005
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.14 — 279 ratings — published 1994
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.47 — 503 ratings — published
The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.12 — 332 ratings — published 2012
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.44 — 426 ratings — published 2010
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,779 ratings — published 2006
People and Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.40 — 75 ratings — published 2012
Permaculture 1: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements (Permaculture, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.40 — 161 ratings — published 1978
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,048 ratings — published 1996
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.00 — 963 ratings — published 2013
Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.14 — 460 ratings — published 2015
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-grow Edibles (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.17 — 741 ratings — published 2007
Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 180 ratings — published 2014
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,780 ratings — published 1995
Permaculture 2: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture (Permaculture, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.29 — 145 ratings — published 1979
The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.50 — 138 ratings — published 2005
Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)
by (shelved 29 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 322 ratings — published
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.12 — 191 ratings — published 2015
The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.47 — 477 ratings — published 2012
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,709 ratings — published 1979
Desert or Paradise: Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.37 — 108 ratings — published 2012
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 24 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,356 ratings — published 1977
The Permaculture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.86 — 103 ratings — published 1994
Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.03 — 99 ratings — published 2014
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,074 ratings — published 2006
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.51 — 162,749 ratings — published 2013
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (Conservation Classics)
by (shelved 21 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.45 — 132 ratings — published 1978
Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.97 — 344 ratings — published
Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.03 — 235 ratings — published 2015
How to Make a Forest Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 132 ratings — published 2002
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.84 — 489 ratings — published 2013
The Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.32 — 74 ratings — published 1993
Permaculture in a Nutshell (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as permaculture)
avg rating 3.95 — 279 ratings — published 1993
Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.20 — 488 ratings — published 2014
Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,308 ratings — published
RetroSuburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.52 — 180 ratings — published
The Market Gardener: A Handbook for Successful Small-Scale Organic Farming (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,490 ratings — published 2014
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,640 ratings — published 2009
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as permaculture)
avg rating 4.34 — 715 ratings — published 2012
![An Agricultural Testament [Paperback] (Author) Sir Albert Howard by Albert Howard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1697868258l/159739729._SX98_.jpg "An Agricultural Testament [Paperback] (Author) Sir Albert Howard by Albert Howard")
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people.
Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”
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Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”
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“I passed out cigars to the men, and we lit them with a twig caught alight in the fire and passed the bottle around. Charley was doing most of the talking, telling a hunting story from the days of elk and bison, neither of which anyone in attendance except Charley had ever seen. He made them epic animals in his story, inhabitants of an old and better world not to come around again. He then told of his lost farmstead at the old mound village of Cowee, before one of the many disastrous treaties had driven him and his family west to Nantayale. At Cowee, he has been noted for his success with apple trees, which over the years he had planted at spots where his outhouses had stood. Apples grew on his trees huge as dreams of apples. That Cowee house was old, from the time when they still buried dead loved ones in the dirt floor.”
― Thirteen Moons
― Thirteen Moons
