Building Your Permaculture Property: A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land

“A fresh, integrative, and holistic perspective on how to orientate oneself to the process of establishing your dreams and visions on the land.” —Richard Perkins, author of Regenerative Agriculture

Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors’ decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools to help you: Clarify your vision, values, and resources Diagnose your land and resources for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats Design your land and resources to meet your vision and values Implement the right design to enhance your strengths and improve your weakest resource Establish benchmarks to monitor the sustainability and success of your development.

When designing a regenerative permaculture property, too many land stewards suffer from option paralysis, a lack of integrated holistic design, fruitless trial-and-error attempts, wasted money, and the frustration that results from too much information and no context.

Building Your Permaculture Property is the essential guide for everyone looking to cut through the noise and establish an ecologically regenerative, financially sustainable, enjoyable, and thriving permaculture property, anywhere in the world.

“Highlights the need for permaculture design thinking in creating resilient, regenerative, landscapes and communities. Through this work, Rob, Michelle, and Takota make a valuable contribution to the ongoing evolution of permaculture thinking and action.” —David Holmgren, permaculture co-originator

“Every farm, every ranch, and every homestead can benefit from thinking deeper about how human intent engages with the places we’re blessed to call home.” —Michael Phillips, author of The Holistic Orchard

From the Publisher

Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.

Introduction: The Problem with Permaculture

Much of the permaculture content available today is too focused on specific practices. The solution is a clear step-by-step process to design, develop and manage a permaculture property.

Step 0: Inspect Your Paradigm

Our paradigms influence our principles, and processes and drive system behaviours either downwards, towards fragility, our upwards towards antifragility and abundance.

Step1: Clarify Your Vision. Values, and Resources

The infinite number of options that you could consider when building your permaculture property can be filtered down if you build a venn diagram that constrains What you want, What you Have, and What is right?

Step 2: Diagnose Your Resources for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

Learn how to use form, timing, placement, and scale to simply describe your property resources.

Step 3: Design Your Resources to Meet Your Vision and Values

Permaculture design is doing something at a specific time, in a specific place in a specific amount with a continuous evaluation of what is ethical.

Step 4: Implement the Right Design that will Most Improve Your Weakest Resource

Order of property implementation: Geographys, climate water, access, structures, fencing, flora fauna, business, technology, soil.

Step 5: Monitor Your Resources for Indicators of Well-being or Suffering

Avoid burnout and only monitor what you can manage because you can only manage what you can monitor.

Putting It All Together

Clarify your visions, diagnose your resources; design your resources to meet your vision and values; implement the right design; and monitor for well-being or suffering.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B089PTLCRQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Society Publishers (May 11, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 11, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 66825 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 249 pages