permaculture

A Facilitator’s Handbook

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PERMACULTURE

Solutions for Sustainable Lifestyles

• Aquaculture.


• Appropriate Technology.


• Cooperatives and Enterprise Development.

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
  workshops.


• Permaculture and Sustainable Community Design.


• Patterns in Nature and Methods for Design.


• Houses, Water, and Waste Management.


• Healthy Soil.


• Seed Saving and Nurseries.


• Home and Community Gardens.


• Farming.


• Forests, Tree Crops, and Bamboo.


• Integrated Pest Management (IPM).


• Animal Systems.

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:

Developed by IDEP Foundation with PERMATIL and GreenHand

Published by IDEP Foundation • http://www.idepfoundation.org