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Principles and Pathways offers twelve key permaculture design principles, each explained in separate chapters. It is regarded as a major landmark in permaculture literature, especially as the seminal work, Bill Mollison's Permaculture: A Designer's Manual (1988) was published fifteen years previously and has never been revised. [10]
[1] [2] Based in Vermont, Falk owns Whole Systems Design, a landscape and infrastructure studio in Moretown. [3] [4] [5] The firm has conducted landscape planning for the Island School in the Bahamas, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. [6] [7] [8] Falk has pioneered the cultivation of rice in cold climate agricultural settings. [9] [10]
Andrew Millison [1] is a Permaculture designer, instructor, and documentary videographer based out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. He has been an instructor in the Horticulture Department at Oregon State University (OSU) since 2009 where he founded OSU Permaculture Design [2] which runs the premiere online university Permaculture program in the world.
Permaculture design is founded in replicating or imitating natural patterns found in ecosystems because these solutions have emerged through evolution over thousands of years and have proven to be effective. As a result, the implementation of permaculture design will vary widely depending on the region of the Earth it is located in.
His Keyline principles or concepts (Keyline Design) have been adopted by farm owners in almost every country in the world. Yeomans' Keyline concepts are now part of the curriculum of many sustainable agriculture courses in colleges and universities across the world. His ideas have also been a key factor in the development of permaculture design.
Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart (1 April 1913 – 7 March 2000) was an English pioneer of forest gardening in temperate zones. He created a model forest garden from a 0.12 acre (500 m²) orchard on his farm. [1] He credits the inspiration for his work to an article by James Sholto Douglas, which was in turn inspired by the work of Toyohiko ...
They farmed 0.2 acre of rented land before settling on their own farm in Saint-Armand, Quebec in 2004. [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] In 2012, The Market Gardener , was first published in French, and appeared in 2013, He has published articles about his work in Canadian Organic Grower , La Terre de Chez Nous and Growing for Market. [ 1 ]
Hügelkultur bed prior to being covered with soil. Hügelkultur is a German word meaning mound culture or hill culture. [3] Though the technique is alleged to have been practiced in German and Eastern European societies for hundreds of years, [1] [4] the term was first published in a 1962 German gardening booklet by Herrman Andrä. [5]