Building Your Permaculture Property: A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

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. “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 AgricultureBuilding 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 The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. 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 offers a revolutionary method to overcome overwhelm. The authors, engineers and a farmer, lead you - the land steward - through a clear five-step process, exercises, templates, and workflow tools developed through decades of successful land management consulting and farming. You'll develop a custom plan for your property by learning how to: Set and communicate goals that are realistic for you and your property Diagnose your property's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats Develop functional designs that strengthen resiliency, leverage opportunities, and mitigate risks Make informed and strategic decisions with confidence and without remorse Establish benchmarks to monitor the sustainability and success of your development. Building Your Permaculture Property is the essential guide for all land stewards looking to cut through the noise and establish an ecologically regenerative, financially sustainable, enjoyable, and thriving permaculture property, anywhere in the world. Rob and Michelle Avis own and operate Adaptive Habitat, a leading-edge property design firm, and Verge Permaculture, a globally recognized award-winning education business in Calgary, AB. Takota Coen is a second-generation organic farmer on the award-winning 250-acre Coen Farm in central Alberta. Together they have taught thousands of students and co-consulted on dozens of projects **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. Front Cover Praise for Building Your Permaculture Property Title Page Rights Page Contents Foreword Preface Introduction Step 0: Inspect Your Paradigm Step 1: Clarify Your Vision, Values, and Resources Step 2: Diagnose Your Resources for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Step 3: Design Your Resources to Meet Your Vision and Values Step 4: Implement the Right Design That Will Most Improve Your Weakest Resource Step 5: Monitor Your Resources for Indicators of Well-being or Suffering The Solution to a Sisyphean Task Afterword: The Land Needs Us to Live Differently Here Glossary Notes Index About the Authors About New Society Publishers A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading "Building Your Permaculture Property combines an engineer and a farmer's 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."-- Provided by publisher "Building Your Permaculture Property combines an engineer and a farmer's 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."--Résumé de l'éditeur