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Getting Started in Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens by Ross Mars, Jenny Mars

Getting Started in Permaculture: 50 Practical Projects to Build and Design Productive Gardens Ross Mars, Jenny Mars ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 288
Publisher: Permanent Publications
ISBN: 9781856230353

The challenge for designers, say the authors of Carrot City, is to develop “exciting and innovative proposals for a future Productive City that will capture the imaginations of the public”. It soon became With a greenhouse, a classroom and over two and a half acres of landscaped and productive gardens designed and built by inmates, participants receive applied skills, including woodworking and building planters, and job counseling from the program. Feb 28, 2012 - Sandusky County Jail Gardening Program: Started in 2009, the 11,706 square-foot Sandusky County Jail garden in Ohio originally began as a way to cut costs and still provide food for the inmates. The project's growth has been compared to that of an apple tree: maiden, formative and productive years. In 2001, agreement was given for us to take on an acre of once-derelict allotment land situated on the edge of Epping . Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Sep 30, 2011 - At the heart of the book are over forty project case studies. Oct 18, 2013 - Havana produces up to 50% of its food requirements within the city limits, much of it organic and produced by people in their homes, gardens and in municipal spaces Start small. For urban agriculture to gain wide acceptance, they argue, the design of buildings and garden spaces around need to incorporate edible landscaping, and space for small livestock – and these must be aesthetically pleasing. Feb 27, 2012 - While many sustainable and food-focused programs are limited by the fact they only have volunteer staff, Organic Lea's vision to create jobs provides a practical transition from hobby radicals to “professional radicals”. Oct 23, 2013 - The Game of Logging program, re-designed for private forest owners, firewood cutters, and homeowners provides a more thorough knowledge and practical, hands-on experience with safety and productivity. A common design is to have a cropping field next to the orchard, to one side of the house, with a contour bund and ditch (swale) running into the top of the orchard, to increase the collection of water for the household garden. Make the least change for the greatest effect.The best permaculture designs begin small and are scaled-up after positive affirmation or feedback from the design system itself is received. Aug 14, 2013 - In ten years of field trips and working with students on food security and sustainable agriculture projects in South and South Eastern Africa, the project of the Chikukwa villages in Zimbabwe is the most successful I have encountered. In practical terms, we need to learn our lessons and .. Mar 6, 2014 - This book is full of cheerfully presented but dead-useful advice, illustrations and photos that really help to clarify key Permaculture techniques and make that system of garden design seem eminently do-able at any scale.