Rob Avis, Michelle Avis, Takota Coen

Building Your Permaculture Property (eBook, ePUB)

A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A fresh, integrative, and holistic perspective on how to orientate oneself to the process of establishing your dreams and visions on the land." -Richard Perkins, author of Regenerative Agriculture Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools to help you:

• Clarify your vision, values, and resources
• Diagnose your land and resources for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
• Design your land and resources to meet your vision and values
• Implement the right design to enhance your strengths and improve your weakest resource
• Establish benchmarks to monitor the sustainability and success of your development.

When designing a regenerative permaculture property, too many land stewards suffer from option paralysis, a lack of integrated holistic design, fruitless trial-and-error attempts, wasted money, and the frustration that results from too much information and no context. Building Your Permaculture Property is the essential guide for everyone looking to cut through the noise and establish an ecologically regenerative, financially sustainable, enjoyable, and thriving permaculture property, anywhere in the world. "Highlights the need for permaculture design thinking in creating resilient, regenerative, landscapes and communities. Through this work, Rob, Michelle, and Takota make a valuable contribution to the ongoing evolution of permaculture thinking and action." -David Holmgren, permaculture co-originator "Every farm, every ranch, and every homestead can benefit from thinking deeper about how human intent engages with the places we're blessed to call home." -Michael Phillips, author of The Holistic Orchard

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771423267
• Artikelnr.: 58515709

Autorenporträt

Rob Avis, PEng, co-owns Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. He is co-author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting and lives in Alberta, Canada.

Michelle Avis, P.Eng is co-owner and operator of Adaptive Habitat, a leading edge property design firm for resilient homes, acreages, and farms and Verge Permaculture, a globally recognized award-winning education business. She has over 10 years of experience in project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Takota Coenis a permaculture educator, Red Seal Carpenter, second-generation organic farmer, and co-owner and operator of Coen Farm, an award-winning 250-acre permaculture farm that produces nutrient-dense raw-milk-fed pork, grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, forest garden berries, and herbal teas. He lives near Edmonton, Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Geoff Lawton
Preface
Introduction
     The Problem with Permaculture
    You Need a Process (Not a Prescription)
    About This Book and the Companion Website
    Your Very First Practice: Get an Accountability Partner
Step 0: Inspect Your Paradigm
    The Gorilla in the Room
    The Upward and Downward Spirals
    Takota's Story: The Coen Permaculture Farm Upward Spiral
    Practices for Step 0: Inspect Your Paradigm
Step 1: Clarify Your Vision, Values, and Resources
    What Do You Have?
    What Is Right?
    Takota's Story: Two Paths to the Same Cliff
    What Do You Want?
    Walking Through a Field of Landmines Blinded by a Scarf
    Be Careful What You Wish For
     Practices for Step 1: Clarify
    Takota's Story: Buckets of Well-being
Step 2: Diagnose Your Resources for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
and Threats
    Takota's Story: Don't Skip Your Diagnosis!
    A Watershed of Information
    Takota's Story: Growing Up a Carpenter
    Two Stages of Diagnosis
    Black Swans
    Takota's Story: Black Swan Dam
    The Value of Digital Mapping and Open Data
    Practices for Step 2: Diagnose
Step 3: Design Your Resources to Meet Your Vision and Values
    Why Design?
    What Design Is Not
    Takota's Story: To Swale or Subsoil?
    Form, Timing, Placement, and Scale
    Takota's Story: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Creating a Permaculture Design
    Practices for Step 3: Design
Step 4: Implement the Right Design That Will Most Improve Your Weakest
Resource
    What Is Your Birdshot?
    What Is Your Slug?
    Pull the Trigger
    Good, Bad, and Ugly Decisions
    Takota's Story: The Bazooka Approach
    Practices for Step 4: Implement
    Takota's Story: My Best Advice for Solving Any Problem
Step 5: Monitor Your Resources for Indicators of Well-being or Suffering
    The Push and Pull of Life
    Monitoring Your Resources
    Takota's Story: Monitoring for Mastitis
    Takota's Story: Building My Own Permaculture Property
     Takota's Story: An Ecosystem Disguised as a Farm
    Practices for Step 5: Monitor
    The Solution to a Sisyphean Task
    Putting It All Together
     Your Very Last Practice: Your Permaculture Property Planner
Afterword: The Land Needs Us to Live Differently Here
Glossary
Notes
Index
About the Authors
About New Society Publishers