Permaculture Plants: Palms and Ferns

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Sustainable Agriculture Research Institute, Oct 25, 2016 - Architecture - 462 pages

The designers tool for selecting species for function, climate and local conditions.

This book is really about conservation - conservation of soil; fossil fuel; human energy; species; and genotypes of species. Ultimately it is about conservation of the human species, which is obviously doomed unless we change our priorities away from a consumerist society and shift our direction towards well-designed sustainable systems.
The plants listed in this book have great potential to turn the problems of desertification into solutions enabling food security and abundance. Simultaneously massive pressure can be taken off of species at risk.


About the author (2016)

Jeff completed his Permaculture Design Course led by Bill Mollison in 1983. He has over twenty five years experience in teaching Permaculture Design and a longer history as a Permaculture Designer. He has worked on four continents and has taught courses in Australia, North America and Africa. Jeff is co-author of the book Permaculture Plants - A Selection, and author of Permaculture Plants - Agaves and Cacti as well as this text. He is currently working on other permaculture plants books and a futuristic novel. He also contributed a chapter to the recently published Permaculture Pioneers. Jeff also enjoys working with sound and apart from several Bill Mollison audio sets; he has produced two music albums.

Bibliographic information

TitlePermaculture Plants: Palms and Ferns
Volume 3 of Permaculture Plants
AuthorJeff Nugent
Editionillustrated
PublisherSustainable Agriculture Research Institute, 2016
ISBN0958636710, 9780958636711
Length462 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Architecture / Landscape
Architecture / Sustainability & Green Design
Gardening / Landscape
Social Science / Anthropology / General
  
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