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Andrea Heistinger
THE MANUAL OF SEED SAVING
Harvesting, Storing, and Sowing Techniques for Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits



BILL MOLLISON

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Affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.

The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.

It is past time to tax lawns - or any wasteful consumption - and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre per month for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.

BILL MOLLISON

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I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything. But if you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much. And choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth. We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. We can do it.

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THE ORGANIC MEDICINAL HERB FARMER

The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale

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Jeff Carpenter

Melanie Carpenter

Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

ANNE WHISTON SPIRN

The Language of Landscape

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Landscape has all the features of language. It contains the equivalent of words and parts of speech-patterns of shape, structure, material, formation, and function. All landscapes are combinations of these.

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THE CHINESE MEDICINAL HERB FARM

A Cultivator's Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production

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Peg Schafer

Foreword by Steven Foster

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 2 - DESIGN & PRACTICE

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

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EDIBLE PERENNIAL GARDENING

Growing Successful Polycultures in Small Spaces

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Anni Kelsey

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 2 - DESIGN & PRACTICE

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

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EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

VOL 1 - VISION & THEORY

Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture

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Dave Jacke

with Eric Toensmeier

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FARMING THE WOODS
An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests

Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel

FOOLS AND DREAMERS:

REGENERATING A NATIVE FOREST

Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.

Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.

---> hinewai.org.nz

---> happenfilms.com