THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PERMACULTURE

written and illustrated by NICOLE FAIRES

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New large softcover book, 330 pages. First edition, published 2012

Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate eco-friendly technology, and biology can be confusing andoverwhelming, 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 cover every aspect ofpermaculture, including:

- 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 astep-by-step, complete guide to every aspect of permaculture, with hundreds of illustrations and photos..

About the author

Nicole Faires is an adventurer, self-proclaimed eccentric, wife and mother of three girls. She grew up in a semi-nomadic homeschooling family and spent her early years in rural Montana on a hobby farm where she raised chickend, grew her own food, learned to crochet, read out-of-print books by Masanobu Fukuoka, and dreamed of the Amish. She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading and continues to seek new adventures and local food with her family in beautiful British Columbia, where she lives as a champion of renaissance sustainable livestyles.

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The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture by Nicole Faires