Permaculture Design A step-by-step guide Permanent Publications
2012 Pbck; 191 pp UK Permaculture teacher Aranya has produced a
new book on Permaculture design. This handy field guide takes
you step-by step through all the main skills required of the
permaculture designer in one slim volume: observation; surveying
mapping and surveying; the client interview; drawing up a design
proposal, and how to implement it, and much more besides. The
same topics are covered in other Designer manuals, such as
Patrick Whitefield’s Earth Care Manual, but this book covers
each topic in more detail, with excellent graphics, photos and
illustrations throughout. The sections on surveying and mapping
techniques are particularly clear and full of practical advice,
including marking contours with an “A-Frame” and full details on
measuring a site and making a base-map. I could have done
without the section at the end on “Designing zone zero zero”
which strays into the territory of personal development- an
entirely different subject