Free Download A FACILITATOR'S HANDBOOK FOR PERMACULTURE

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The aim of this book is to provide a wide range of practical and comprehensive guidelines, tools, and techniques for delivering effective permaculture workshops.

It includes over 200 presentations, creative thinking exercises, and practical hands-on exercises which can be used by local facilitators to design and implement effective courses appropriate to the needs in their area. It has been designed to work in conjunction with the companion books A Resource Book for Permaculture - Solutions for Sustainable Lifestyles and The Permaculture Facilitator's Handbook for Training and Assessment.

The workshop techniques include knowledge and practical techniques for environmental rehabilitation and sustainability, strengthening community resilience and local economies. The contents of the book are based on concepts of deep ecology, the inter-connectedness of our environment and culture and the principles and ethics of sustainable community development.

This Book is an appropriate reference and guide book for use by community cooperatives and sustainable development facilitators, Indonesian community groups, NGOs, farmers' networks, Government workers, universities, and other organizations.

This book includes detailed guidelines for teaching:

Permaculture and Sustainable Community Design;
Aquaculture;
Patterns in Nature and Methods for Design;
Appropriate Technology;
Houses, Water, and Waste Management;
Cooperatives and Enterprise Development;
Healthy Soil;
Seed Saving and Nurseries;
Home and Community Gardens;
Farming;
Forests, Tree Crops, and Bamboo;
Integrated Pest Management (IPM);
Animal Systems.

It includes over 200 presentations, creative thinking exercises, and practical hands-on exercises, as well as detailed instructions for:

Conducting pre-training assessments;
Preparations and tools for conducting workshop.

This book is made available thanks to the kind permission of the IDEP Foundation.