Permaculture Plants: A Selection is indispensable for growers and designers working in sub-tropical and warm temperate/arid climates, and also includes some cool-climate tolerant species. It details hundreds of common and unusual edible, medicinal and useful plants.
Permaculture Plants: A Selection is indexed extensively to facilitate cross-referencing and is divided into sections covering:
- Pioneer plants: whose main role is to act as nurse plants to other species, as well as having useful products and properties of their own;
- Nuts and Fruits: species whose main product is edible, but which usually possess other useful qualities;
- Other Utility Plants: including species which do not fit easily into the first sections, for example timber or animal fodder species;
- Utility Lists: which comprise species serving a particular function, such as fire retardant or bee forage species; and
- Water Plants and Difficult Sites: categorised according to the particular sites the plants are adapted to.
Book Details
Published: 2nd edition published 2004 (first published 1994)
ISBN: 978 1 85623 029 5
Size: 206mm x 290mm
Format: Paperback, 160pp. 45 colour photographs and b/w line drawings
Author
Jeff Nugent was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Nannup in 1975, where he set up the Sustainable Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in 1982. SARI is a small, non-government, non-profit organisation dedicated to working toward sustainable human existence based on a 30 hectare property. One of the projects at SARI is establishing a gene-pool of useful species relevant to various climatic conditions; including the Mediterranean regions, the temperate regions and the highland tropics. Jeff has edited 3 audio sets of Bill Mollison (totalling more than 70 hours), and has written 3 books: Permaculture Plants: A Selection; Permaculture Plants, Agaves and cacti; and Permaculture Plants, Palms and Ferns. Jeff holds a degree in permaculture and teaches courses, both from SARI and away.
