We began our PDC (Permaculture Design Course) training with Geoff Lawton this week and are so excited. We have already gobbled up the introductory sessions and are eagerly awaiting the next sections. It's late and we've been up all night studying and doing research for our business plan and for our general plant, herb and food forest knowledge.
Tomorrow we attend four business seminars through the Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs (RISE) in an attempt to clarify our direction with our business plan for the retreat and educational center. There's one thing that seems to confound a number of the entrepreneurial speakers and educators we interact with: We don't see ourselves as having competition as we want everyone to do this.
We learned about this and other great resources through one of Austin's great hidden resources, Lance McNeill at BCL of Texas - Business & Community Lenders.
We just ordered Bill Mollison's "PERMACULTURE, A Designers Manual". It is considered to be the field book and go-to guide for all involved in the field. It can be found with other wonderful permaculture and food forest references at the Tagari store, run by Mollison.
PERMACULTURE: A Designers Manual
by Bill Mollison
Tomorrow we attend four business seminars through the Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs (RISE) in an attempt to clarify our direction with our business plan for the retreat and educational center. There's one thing that seems to confound a number of the entrepreneurial speakers and educators we interact with: We don't see ourselves as having competition as we want everyone to do this.
We learned about this and other great resources through one of Austin's great hidden resources, Lance McNeill at BCL of Texas - Business & Community Lenders.
We just ordered Bill Mollison's "PERMACULTURE, A Designers Manual". It is considered to be the field book and go-to guide for all involved in the field. It can be found with other wonderful permaculture and food forest references at the Tagari store, run by Mollison.
PERMACULTURE: A Designers Manual
This is the definitive Permaculture design manual in print since 1988. It is the textbook and curriculum for the 72-hour Certificate course in Permaculture Design.
Written for teachers, students and designers, it follows on and greatly enlarges on the initial introductory texts, permaculture One (1978) and Permaculture Two (1979) both of which are still in demand.
Very little of the material found in this book is reproduced from the former texts. It covers design methodologies and strategies for both urban and rural applications, describing property design and natural farming techniques.
Written for teachers, students and designers, it follows on and greatly enlarges on the initial introductory texts, permaculture One (1978) and Permaculture Two (1979) both of which are still in demand.
Very little of the material found in this book is reproduced from the former texts. It covers design methodologies and strategies for both urban and rural applications, describing property design and natural farming techniques.
- Designers' Manual
- Design methods
- Understanding patterns
- The Humid Tropics
- Dryland Strategies
- Humid Cool to Cold Climates
- Trees and their energy
- Aquaculture
- Concepts and Themes in Design
- Soils and Water
- Earthworking and Earth Resources
