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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

I thought I would pass this special on:
Permaculture book sale at Chelsea Green - great deals
Add these to your library or bibliography.

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Subject:        Permaculture Sale: Let nature do the heavy lifting
Date:   Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:08:07 -0400
From:   Chelsea Green Publishing <web@chelseagreen.com>
Reply-To:       web@chelseagreen.com

Greetings,

Permaculture Special
35% off until Oct. 15th
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Gardening and planting are not only relegated to springtime. Autumn is a 
perfect time to begin planning next year's garden—whether that's a 
complete redesign, or adding new features like rain barrels, bees, or 
herbs and companion plants.
Permaculture Special
On SALE—35% Off
A little planning can go a long way toward making sure your garden or 
small farm grows the way you want it. That's where permaculture comes in.

The concept of permaculture is simple—everything should serve multiple 
functions and let nature do the heavy lifting. By paying attention to 
natural systems and working with them, you can spend less effort, 
improve the health of your soil, and enjoy a bountiful harvest.

Chelsea Green has been the go-to publisher for key home-scale 
permaculture books for nearly thirty years, and to help you get familiar 
with the concept (or add to your existing collection) we've put a 
selection of our best permaculture titles on sale, as well as some new 
titles that we expect to become classics in time.

Happy reading from the folks at Chelsea Green Publishing!

P.S. Don't forget to check out our full list of books on sale here: 
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/sale

Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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Retail Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $19.47
The first edition of Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's 
home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with 
Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and 
forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition 
broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and 
suburban growers.

Learn Permaculture 101 in Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale 
Permaculture. READ IT HERE...

"The world didn't come with an operating manual, so it's a good thing 
that some wise people have from time to time written them. Gaia's Garden 
is one of the more important, a book that will be absolutely necessary 
in the world ahead."—Bill McKibben


Edible Forest Gardens (Two volume set)
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Set Price:$150.00
Sale Price: $97.50

Volume Price: $75.00
Sale Price: $48.75
Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells 
out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to 
the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates.

Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic 
ecological principles that make it work.

In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical 
considerations: concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain your 
own forest garden. Along the way they present case studies and examples, 
as well as tables, illustrations, and a uniquely valuable "plant matrix" 
that lists hundreds of the best edible and useful species.

Taken together, the two volumes of Edible Forest Gardens offer an 
advanced course in ecological gardening—one that will forever change the 
way you look at plants and your environment.

Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide 
to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
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Retail Price: $35.00
Sale Price: $22.75
There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, 
and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous 
gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common 
edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of 
food.

Perennial vegetables are perfect as part of an edible landscape plan or 
permaculture garden. Profiling more than a hundred species, with dozens 
of color photographs and illustrations, and filled with valuable growing 
tips, recipes, and resources.

Perennial Vegetables is a groundbreaking and ground-healing book that 
will open the eyes of gardeners everywhere to the exciting world of 
edible perennials.


Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
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Retail Price: $30.00
Sale Price: $19.50
David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving 
Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s.

Permaculture draws together and integrates 25 years of thinking and 
teaching to reveal a whole new way of understanding and action behind a 
simple set of design principles.

For anyone seriously interested in understanding the foundations of 
sustainable design and culture, this book is essential reading. Although 
a book of ideas, the big picture is repeatedly grounded by reference to 
Holmgren's own place, Melliodora, and other practical examples.


Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your 
Neighborhood Into a Community
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Retail Price: $25.00
Sale Price: $16.25
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, 
revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt. Food Not 
Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and 
community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject.

Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step 
permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build 
fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in 
their own "paradise gardens."

 Excerpt from Chapter Two: Urban Ecology. READ IT HERE...

Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, 
Integrative Farming and Gardening
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Retail Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $19.47

Sepp Holzer's farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, 
ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees 
and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them.

This is in dramatic contrast to his neighbors' spruce monocultures. 
Holzer covers every aspect of his farming methods, not just how to 
create a holistic system on the farm itself, but how to make a living 
from it.

"A fascinating book written by a man who has devoted a lifetime to 
working with nature and creating extraordinarily diverse polycultures. 
His work is breathtaking." —Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine

Read the Foreword by Patrick Whitefield...

Permaculture Design: A Step-By-Step Guide
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Retail Price: $24.95
Sale Price: $16.22

In this unique, full color guide, experienced permaculture teacher 
Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using 
clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams.

It is based on course worksheets which have been designed, refined and 
tested on students over time. Linking theory to practice, he places the 
ethics, principles, philosophies, tools and techniques directly into the 
context of the process itself. While written for anyone with a basic 
grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more 
experienced designer.

WATCH Aranya's Presentation at the London Permaculture Festival...

People & Permaculture: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making 
Back Home
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Retail Price: $34.95
Sale Price: $22.72

People & Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being 
mainly about land-based systems to include our own lives, relationships, 
and society.

This book provides a framework to help each of us improve our ability to 
care for ourselves, our friends, families, and the Earth. It is also a 
clear guide for those who may be new to permaculture, who may not even 
have a garden, but who wish to be involved in making changes to their 
lives and living more creative, low-carbon lives. People & Permaculture 
transforms the context of permaculture making it relevant to everyone.

Look inside the book...

How to Grow Perennial Vegetables: Low-Maintenance, Low-Impact Vegetable 
Gardening
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Retail Price: $26.95
Sale Price: $17.52

Martin Crawford gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial 
vegetables (edible plants that live longer than three years), from 
ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and 
edible woodland plants.

There are many advantages to growing perennial vegetables. They need 
less tillage than conventional vegetables and so help retain carbon in 
the soil, they extend the harvesting season, especially in early spring, 
and, of course, they are much less work.

How to Grow Perennial Vegetables features over 100 perennial edibles in 
detail, both common and unusual – from rhubarb to skirret; Jerusalem 
artichoke to nodding onions.

Read Chapter One: Why Grow Perennial Vegetables?...

Permaculture Pioneers: Stories from the New Frontier
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Retail Price: $34.95
Sale Price: $22.72
Permaculture is much more than organic gardening. Arguably it is one of 
Australia’s greatest intellectual exports, having helped people 
worldwide to design ecologically sustainable strategies for their homes, 
gardens, farms and communities.

This book charts a history of the first three decades of permaculture 
through the personal stories of Australian permaculturists. From 
permaculture co-originator David Holmgren, to ABC TV’s Gardening 
Australia presenter Josh Byrne, the authors span the generations and the 
continent.