075 - Geoff Lawton presents The Permaculture Designers' Manual

Published: Sept. 19, 2014, 1 p.m.

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This book is about designing sustainable human settlements, an preserving and extending natural systems. It covers aspects of designing and maintaining a cultivated ecology in any climate: the principles of design; design methods; understanding patterns in nature; climatic factor; water; soils; earthworks; techniques and strategies in the difference climatic types; aquaculture; and the social, legal, and economic design of human settlement.

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It calls into question not only the current methods of agriculture, but also the very need for a formal food agriculture if wastelands and the excessive lawn culture within towns and cities are devoted to food production and small livestock suited to local needs.

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This book is Permaculture, A Designers\\u2019 Manual.

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And this show is Geoff Lawton covering the whole Permaculture Designers\\u2019 Manual in about an hour at PV1 in March 2014.

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Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/75

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