Permaculture - Planting the seeds of radical regeneration - In the Moment Series

Name: Permaculture - Planting the seeds of radical regeneration - In the Moment Series
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Maya Blackwell

Saraband

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2024

9781913393830

Paperback

18 x 11 x 1.5 cm

160 pages

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Permaculture needs all of us, and all of us need permaculture.

Permaculture is a way of farming, gardening, or managing land that emphasises a reciprocal relationship with nature. It’s a design process that works with wildness, not against it. And it’s an essential resource in the fight of our lives: tackling the climate crisis.

Here, permaculture practitioner and poet Maya Blackwell writes with expertise and personal experience of the transformative power of permaculture for both people and the planet. As well as tracing its evolution – from its roots in Indigenous societies to the important role it plays in urban allotments today – you will discover how the practice could nurture individual and collective wellbeing. There are opportunities throughout for reflection, creativity and connection. These present valuable lessons we can all learn from the principles of permaculture, to help us build resilience and lean into the long-term process of trying new things, adapting failures and reaping all that we sow.

Whether you’re completely new to permaculture or someone with years of experience wanting to reconnect with its history and core values, this book contains tools for growth that bring rewards far beyond the garden.

Table of Contents

Preface: A personal note by the author, about herself and her interest/background in the subject.

1. Introduction to this book: its guiding principles, and how the reader can use it.

2. What is permaculture? Looking backward to move forward. Introducing permaculture;

earth care, fair share, people care, indigenous influence.

3. Why is it important? The impact of climate change, environmentally and emotionally.

4. The twelve design principles Your arsenal in permaculture design – which can also be

applied not only to land, but any area of your life that requires observation/ re-thinking.

EARTH CARE

5. Design process: ‘formal design process’: mapping, zoning, site analysis etc.

6. Soil: soil types, soil test, composting, mulching, no dig (no-till) gardening.

7. Water: the water cycle, how to catch and store your water, earthworks e.g swails.

8. Plants: companion planting, perennials and annuals, pest control, forest gardening

(layering), plant guilds (eg. nitrogen fixing, windbreak).

9. Animals: how to manage animals in a permaculture system (the different types: silvopasture,

rotation), how to select the right animals for your site

- REFLECTIONS

FAIR SHARE

10. Intersectional environmentalism: highlighting misconceptions about the environmental

movement / reframing environmentalism / permaculture to centre marginalised communities.

11. Urban permaculture: Allotments, small gardens, raised beds, permaculture in the inner

city with less access to green spaces and more demand for food, community, resources.

12. Permaculture as activism: Mutual aid / resourcing less-developed countries with climate

resilience / sustainable and regenerative approaches to activism that don’t burn us out.

- REFLECTIONS

PEOPLE CARE

13. Self care: cultivating resilience, active hope, nature connection. How to live fully and

appreciate abundance and responsible, mindful actions that nurture us.

14. Group work: active listening, consensus decision-making, kindness, facilitation,

collaborative working, support, and bonding strategies.

15. Wide-scale global people care: off-grid communities (eco-villages); how to connect with

wider communities and networks, conclude on the value of community growing and sharing

on many levels for our personal and collective wellbeing.

- REFLECTIONS

16.How to get involved: inspiration to help you get started; reminders of why, and why now.

Health and better food. Examples and case studies of community initiatives: guerrilla

gardening groups; (in UK: Incredible Edibles Todmorden; Transition town Totnes,

Permaculture Association) (in US/Canada: similar examples tk), PDC courses local to you.

Maya Blackwell is a poet and author from Devon. She grew up in a woodland-based New Age community and explores the themes she absorbed there—of community and nature—throughout her work. Her writing interests include permaculture, well-being, nature connection, grief, creativity, womanhood, and the ocean. She is a prolific spoken-word performer, has been published in Helicon Magazine for the University of Bristol, and is a graduate of the University of Plymouth, with a FD Honors in Creative Art Therapies Studies.