Permaculture: Practical and Radical Solutions for a World in Crisis - Paperback

by Mira Illeris (Author), Esben Schultz (Author)

A comprehensive guide to permaculture from experienced practitioners on the frontlines of regenerative design.

Beautifully illustrated with photography from 90 established permaculture projects, this book showcases the creativity and resilience of a movement already putting solutions into practice.

Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, the authors show how
permaculture's nature-inspired principles can turn homes, gardens, farms, schools, and communities into resilient and abundant ecosystems. Blending practical know-how with the latest research, this book distils years of field-tested strategies into a toolkit for thriving in the face of climate and biodiversity crises.

Readers will discover solutions for:

• No-dig vegetable cultivation and sustainable market gardening
• Designing forest gardens and food forests with perennial vegetables, berries, fruit, and nut trees
• Establishing self-feeding chicken systems and nut forests
• Practicing close-to-nature forestry with native species
• Cultivating grains without ploughing
• Building carbon-storing, low-energy homes from local natural materials
• Implementing community-scale renewable energy solutions
• Recycling water through aquaculture and ecological wastewater treatment
• Strengthening resilient rural-urban networks
• Exploring new approaches to democracy and regenerative economies

Comprehensive, practical, and deeply grounded in experience, Permaculture is both a handbook for action and an inspiring vision of a regenerative future.

Author Biography

Mira Illeris and Esben Schultz run Reforest Farm in Denmark, an off-grid permaculture home and educational forest gardens. They started The Self-Sustaining Village on Funen and founded the Scandinavian Permaculture Magazine in 2009. Mira grew up in the organic farming collective Svanholm on Zealand and Esben on a family farm in Jutland, giving them both strong roots in agriculture. They are both trained organic farmers and are active in the Danish Permaculture Association, where they campaign to influence the spread of permaculture.