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

Description: Building Your Permaculture Property by Rob Avis, Takota Coen, Michelle Avis, Geoff Lawton Building Your Permaculture Property combines an engineer and a farmers professional and practical experience in ecological consulting and regenerative agriculture to lead you - the land steward - through a clear five-step process to design and develop a resilient and abundant property anywhere in the world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. 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 resourcesDiagnose your land and resources for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threatsDesign your land and resources to meet your vision and valuesImplement the right design to enhance your strengths and improve your weakest resourceEstablish 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. Back Cover The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Slices through the Gordian knot that stops most people from realizing their visions. -- PETER BANE, author, The Permaculture Handbook Will help you clarify your own approach to success, and help you navigate complexity with confidence. -- RICHARD PERKINS, author, 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. A valuable tool for individuals in their permaculture journeys. -- DAVID HOLMGREN, permaculture co-originator Exactly what is needed in the regenerative agriculture, homesteading, and permaculture community right now. -- CURTIS STONE, author, The Urban Farmer ROB AVIS, PEng, and MICHELLE AVIS, PEng, co-own Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. TAKOTA COEN is a permaculture educator, second-generation organic farmer, and co-owner and operator of the award-winning 250-acre Coen Farm. They live in Alberta, Canada. Flap The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Slices through the Gordian knot that stops most people from realizing their visions. -- PETER BANE, author, The Permaculture Handbook Will help you clarify your own approach to success, and help you navigate complexity with confidence. -- RICHARD PERKINS, author, 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. A valuable tool for individuals in their permaculture journeys. -- DAVID HOLMGREN, permaculture co-originator Exactly what is needed in the regenerative agriculture, homesteading, and permaculture community right now. -- CURTIS STONE, author, The Urban Farmer ROB AVIS, PEng, and MICHELLE AVIS, PEng, co-own Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally-recognized, award-winning education business. TAKOTA COEN is a permaculture educator, second-generation organic farmer, and co-owner and operator of the award-winning 250-acre Coen Farm. They live in Alberta, Canada. Author Biography Rob Avis, PEng, is co-owner and operator of Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm for resilient homes, acreages, and farms, and Verge Permaculture, a globally recognized award-winning education business described by Geoff Lawton as "one of North Americas premier permaculture design and education companies." Co-author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting, Rob has been professionally involved in project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies since 2005. He lives in Alberta, Canada. Takota Coen is a permaculture educator and co-owner of Coen Farm-an award-winning 250-acre permaculture farm that produces nutrient-dense raw-milk-fed pork, grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, forest garden berries, and herbal teas. Takota is a second-generation organic farmer and holds two Permaculture Design Certificates from the Permaculture Research Institute, two Holistic Management Certificates from Holistic Management International, and a Red Seal Journeyman Certificate for Carpentry. He lives near Edmonton, Alberta. Michelle Avis, PEng, is co-owner and operator of Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm for resilient homes, acreages, and farms, and Verge Permaculture, a globally recognized award-winning education business described by Geoff Lawton as "one of North Americas premier permaculture design and education companies." Co-author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting, Michelle has over a decade of experience in project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies. She lives in Alberta, Canada. Table of Contents Foreword by Geoff LawtonPrefaceIntroduction The Problem with Permaculture You Need a Process (Not a Prescription) About This Book and the Companion Website Your Very First Practice: Get an Accountability PartnerStep 0: Inspect Your Paradigm The Gorilla in the Room The Upward and Downward Spirals Takotas Story: The Coen Permaculture Farm Upward Spiral Practices for Step 0: Inspect Your ParadigmStep 1: Clarify Your Vision, Values, and Resources What Do You Have? What Is Right? Takotas Story: Two Paths to the Same Cliff What Do You Want? Walking Through a Field of Landmines Blinded by a Scarf Be Careful What You Wish For Practices for Step 1: Clarify Takotas Story: Buckets of Well-beingStep 2: Diagnose Your Resources for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Takotas Story: Dont Skip Your Diagnosis! A Watershed of Information Takotas Story: Growing Up a Carpenter Two Stages of Diagnosis Black Swans Takotas Story: Black Swan Dam The Value of Digital Mapping and Open Data Practices for Step 2: DiagnoseStep 3: Design Your Resources to Meet Your Vision and Values Why Design? What Design Is Not Takotas Story: To Swale or Subsoil? Form, Timing, Placement, and Scale Takotas Story: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Creating a Permaculture Design Practices for Step 3: DesignStep 4: Implement the Right Design That Will Most Improve Your Weakest Resource What Is Your Birdshot? What Is Your Slug? Pull the Trigger Good, Bad, and Ugly Decisions Takotas Story: The Bazooka Approach Practices for Step 4: Implement Takotas Story: My Best Advice for Solving Any ProblemStep 5: Monitor Your Resources for Indicators of Well-being or Suffering The Push and Pull of Life Monitoring Your Resources Takotas Story: Monitoring for Mastitis Takotas Story: Building My Own Permaculture Property Takotas Story: An Ecosystem Disguised as a Farm Practices for Step 5: Monitor The Solution to a Sisyphean Task Putting It All Together Your Very Last Practice: Your Permaculture Property PlannerAfterword: The Land Needs Us to Live Differently HereGlossary Notes Index About the Authors About New Society Publishers Review "As well as being a valuable tool for individuals in their permaculture journeys, Building Your Permaculture Property represents another step towards permaculture being recognized beyond its widespread misconception of being simply a fashionable form of organic gardening. It 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"A book to take the reader from thinking into action, Building Your Permaculture Property offers an excellent addition to permaculture theory and provides a key resource for all designers. By confronting and working through real, thorny, and often invisible human and landscape problems — a terrain in which they have earned their share of cuts and bruises — the authors slice through the Gordian knot that stops most people from realizing their home and nature visions through a powerful design system. Their vibrant and positive attitude yoked to psychological insight harnesses clean language and a keen focus on process to cut a neat furrow of systematic thinking through the complexity of living systems assessment, design, and management. Offering a window on digital design tools, clever illustrations, and examples from the demanding world of cold prairie farming, the authors have created a well-marked pathway for the advanced learner to reach professional outcomes."— Peter Bane, executive director, Permaculture Institute of North America, author, The Permaculture Handbook "A life well-lived includes leaving the land better than we found it. This fivestep design manual jumpstarts that journey to a foregone conclusion, laying out a thoughtful process for making permaculture principles your own. Every farm, every ranch, and every homestead benefit from thinking deeper about how human intent engages with the places were blessed to call home. Restoring integrity to degraded ground is our primal mission now as a species. Restoring diversity means planting many more trees. Restoring ecological posterity begins with listening to the heart of the mother... and then reading this book."— Michael Phillips, Holistic Orchard Network, author, The Holistic Orchard "A fresh, integrative, and holistic perspective on how to orientate oneself to the process of establishing your dreams and visions on the land. Designing and managing a farm that can build soil, create amazing food products, and sustain the farmer financially is possible anywhere; and yet it is the clarity of our context and decision-making and our attitudinal responses to design and management that largely underlie success. If you are dreaming of starting out on the land, this book will be a useful companion that will help you clarify your own approach to success, and help you navigate complexity with confidence."— Richard Perkins, author, Regenerative Agriculture, owner, Ridgedale Farm AB and Making Small Farms Work AB"If you are serious about designing a permaculture property, this book has to be in your toolkit. The authors offer an accessible and current guide to the complexity of good design based on years of practical experience."— Morag Gamble, Permaculture Education Institute"Rob, Michelle, and Takota have put a pair of glasses on something that is often blurry in permaculture design: process. Their step-by-step process from beginning to end is exceptionally useful, along with Takotas story which proves the process through a case study of a well-functioning, finely-tuned permaculture farm. Interwoven with a good amount of philosophy and detail, Building Your Permaculture Property is a needed read for anyone who is serious about developing their property through a permaculture design."— Nicholas Burtner, founder and director, The School of Permaculture Promotional The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Long Description The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. 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. Review Quote "As well as being a valuable tool for individuals in their permaculture journeys, Building Your Permaculture Property represents another step towards permaculture being recognized beyond its widespread misconception of being simply a fashionable form of organic gardening. It 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 "A book to take the reader from thinking into action, Building Your Permaculture Property offers an excellent addition to permaculture theory and provides a key resource for all designers. By confronting and working through real, thorny, and often invisible human and landscape problems -- a terrain in which they have earned their share of cuts and bruises -- the authors slice through the Gordian knot that stops most people from realizing their home and nature visions through a powerful design system. Their vibrant and positive attitude yoked to psychological insight harnesses clean language and a keen focus on process to cut a neat furrow of systematic thinking through the complexity of living systems assessment, design, and management. Offering a window on digital design tools, clever illustrations, and examples from the demanding world of cold prairie farming, the authors have created a well-marked pathway for the advanced learner to reach professional outcomes." -- Peter Bane, executive director, Permaculture Institute of North America, author, The Permaculture Handbook "A life well-lived includes leaving the land better than we found it. This fivestep design manual jumpstarts that journey to a foregone conclusion, laying out a thoughtful process for making permaculture principles your own. Every farm, every ranch, and every homestead benefit from thinking deeper about how human intent engages with the places were blessed to call home. Restoring integrity to degraded ground is our primal mission now as a species. Restoring diversity means planting many more trees. Restoring ecological posterity begins with listening to the heart of the mother... and then reading this book." -- Michael Phillips, Holistic Orchard Network, author, The Holistic Orchard "A fresh, integrative, and holistic perspective on how to orientate oneself to the process of establishing your dreams and visions on the land. Designing and managing a farm that can build soil, create amazing food products, and sustain the farmer financially is possible anywhere; and yet it is the clarity of our context and decision-making and our attitudinal responses to design and management that largely underlie success. If you are dreaming of starting out on the land, this book will be a useful companion that will help you clarify your own approach to success, and help you navigate complexity with confidence." -- Richard Perkins, author, Regenerative Agriculture, owner, Ridgedale Farm AB and Making Small Farms Work AB "If you are serious about designing a permaculture property, this book has to be in your toolkit. The authors offer an accessible and current guide to the complexity of good design based on years of practical experience." -- Morag Gamble, Permaculture Education Institute "Rob, Michelle, and Takota have put a pair of glasses on something that is often blurry in permaculture design: process. Their step-by-step process from beginning to end is exceptionally useful, along with Takotas story which proves the process through a case study of a well-functioning, finely-tuned permaculture farm. Interwoven with a good amount of philosophy and detail, Building Your Permaculture Property is a needed read for anyone who is serious about developing their property through a permaculture design." -- Nicholas Burtner, founder and director, The School of Permaculture Promotional "Headline" The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Competing Titles Essential Rainwater Harvesting, Rob Avis and Michelle Avis, New Society Publishers, 9780865718746, 10-16-2018. 39.99, 2000 Permaculture Market Garden, Zach Loeks, New Society Publishers, 9780865718265, 01-27-2017, 39.95, 5000 Silvopasture, Steve Gabriel, Chelsea Green, 9781603587310, 06-14-2018, 39.95, 1500 Permaculture Earthworks Handbook, Douglas Barnes, New Society Publishers, 9780865718449, 09-17, 2017, $32.99, 2000 Feature A 5-step design process for creating a complete property plan for a successful land-based business Includes a practical and realistic framework for streamlining design choices, identifying strengths and weaknesses, using data management systems, finding appropriate resources and setting benchmarks Differs from other books on this subject as it is process oriented, teaching the reader how to think, not what to do. It is applicable to any problem, environment, or scale of property Extremely motivated author team with stated goal to sell 10,000 books in the first year Michelle and Rob Avis are engineers and Takota Coen is a 4th generation organic farmer. The team has over 20 years experience in permaculture land design Aviss previous book, Essential Rainwater Harvesting, has sold over 2000 copies Avises have an extensive social media platform and loyal customer base: The Verge podcast Verge Permaculture YouTube channel - 24K subscribers Verge Permaculture Facebook - 18K Website has 20K page views per month Targeted e-mail list with over 5000 names Extensive and on-going keyword research for their topic Authors have a detailed social media marketing plan for the book, including driving sales with free toolkit and contouring mapping tool on their website Endorsed by Ben Falk, author of best-selling Resilient Farm and Homestead , and Geoff Lawton, leading permaculturalist Audience: Owners of more than several acres of land - retired women, experienced farmers, young professionals, land designers, consultants, and landscape architects Academic: Architecture, sustainability and green design, land use planning, landscape architecture, MIT Sloan school of management, Oberlin College International: Schumacher College, UK, Australia Canada: Largest audience is Western Canada. Active in Calgary since 2008 Description for Sales People A 5-step design process for creating a complete property plan for a successful land-based business Includes a practical and realistic framework for streamlining design choices, identifying strengths and weaknesses, using data management systems, finding appropriate resources and setting benchmarks Differs from other books on this subject as it is process oriented, teaching the reader how to think, not what to do. It is applicable to any problem, environment, or scale of property Extremely motivated author team with stated goal to sell 10,000 books in the first year Michelle and Rob Avis are engineers and Takota Coen is a 4th generation organic farmer. The team has over 20 years experience in permaculture land design Aviss previous book, Essential Rainwater Harvesting, has sold over 2000 copies Avises have an extensive social media platform and loyal customer base: The Verge podcast Verge Permaculture YouTube channel - 24K subscribers Verge Permaculture Facebook - 18K Website has 20K page views per month Targeted e-mail list with over 5000 names Extensive and on-going keyword research for their topic Authors have a detailed social media marketing plan for the book, including driving sales with free toolkit and contouring mapping tool on their website Endorsed by Ben Falk, author of best-selling Resilient Farm and Homestead , and Geoff Lawton, leading permaculturalist Audience: Owners of more than several acres of land - retired women, experienced farmers, young professionals, land designers, consultants, and landscape architects Academic: Architecture, sustainability and green design, land use planning, landscape architecture, MIT Sloan school of management, Oberlin College International: Schumacher College, UK, Australia Canada: Largest audience is Western Canada. Active in Calgary since 2008 Details ISBN0865719373 Author Geoff Lawton Short Title Building Your Permaculture Property Publisher New Society Publishers Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0865719373 ISBN-13 9780865719378 Format Paperback Pages 248 Series Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series Imprint New Society Publishers Place of Publication Gabriola Island Country of Publication United States Illustrations 100 Illustrations, color NZ Release Date 2021-05-11 US Release Date 2021-05-11 Publication Date 2021-05-11 UK Release Date 2021-05-11 Subtitle A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land Alternative 9781550927306 DEWEY 631.58 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-07-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134133779;

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