Practical Permaculture
for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth

solid introduction to permaculture ideas for the experienced gardener. more design focused than plant focused, biased toward large lots, blank slates, and the pacific northwest. not that i can blame them; i like to draw imaginary gardens in maritime climates too.......more

Very good overview of a lot of things. A lot of it was not useful to me, because I do not have quite so much land as many people might who are interested in this kind of stuff... But at the same time, even reading the parts that might not be if practical use of to me (I am not going to own large liv......more

Super informative and easy read. I really appreciated the photos and diagrams to help explain concepts.......more

Chock-full of info but no extra philosophy This is the third or fourth book I've read about permaculture. At first the planning sections were review of the philosophy and concepts I'd gotten from other books. After that section, the book picked up substantially with sections on how to implement the c......more

I found this book useful but not as useful as I had hoped. Parts of it were inspirational and gave good guidelines for urban garden settings, which was essentially what interested me, while other parts seemed very much more targeted at larger scale farms. Overall, I guess it served to reinforce what......more