The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
“An introduction to permaculture”. Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.
A Pattern Language – Alexander
One Straw Revolution – Fukuoka
Retrosuburbia – Holmgren
Permaculture Designers Manual – Mollison
Earth Users Guide to Permaculture – Morrow
Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture – Morrow
Intro to Permaculture – Mollison
Milkwood: Real Skills for Down to Earth Living – Bradley & Ritar
The Good Life: How to Grow a Better World – Maloney
Water for Every Farm – Yeomans
Permaculture Earthworks Handbook – Barnes
Permaculture One – Mollison & Holmgren
Earth Building: Build Your House of Earth – Middleton
Earth Render – Henderson
Earthen Floors – Thompson & Crimmel
Build Your Own Earth Oven – Denzer
The Rocket Mass Heater Builders Guide – Wiesner & Wiesner
Timeless Way of Building – Alexander
Timer Frame Construction – Sobon and Schroeder
Sand Talk – Yunkaporta
The Regenerative Life – Sandford
Radical Mycology – McCoy
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms – Stamets
Mycelium Running – Stamets
D’harawal Dreaming Stories – Bodkin
What the Colonists Never Knew – Foley & Reed
Plants of the Gods – Schultes & Hoffman & Ratch
First Knowledges: Series – Various Authors
permaculture patch Back in the winter of 2022 we were asked to come and have a look at this project in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney. This property was a standard Australian suburban block with some established gardens, lawns, and a swimming pool on a quarter acre or 1000 square meters. While this had served the family well in the past the pool was now rarely used, and the owners were keen to be growing more food in their backyard.
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” – Bill Mollison
“An introduction to permaculture”. Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.
Animals play a crucial role in sustainable and permaculture systems and are a great thing to add to a suburban permaculture backyard. They help to create closed loops by converting Kitchen scraps, weeds, bugs and insects and garden bed trimmings into eggs, meat, and manure.
Building a greener future, one project at a time.
Tierra Projects acknowledges the traditional owners of Gai-Mariagal country on whose unceded lands we live and work. We acknowledge their frontier wars, their fallen warriors and their elders past present and emerging.
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