{"id":40832,"date":"2018-11-22T07:36:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40832"},"modified":"2018-11-22T07:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:36:39","slug":"my-top-10-books-that-inspired-our-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40832","title":{"rendered":"My Top 10 Books That Inspired Our Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Book-Collage--690x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2018\/11\/21\/my-top-10-books-that-inspired-our-project\/\">MY TOP 10 BOOKS THAT INSPIRED OUR PROJECT<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>At the beginning of 2017\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/permanentpublications.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Permanent Publications<\/a>\u00a0sent us an email expressing an interest to publish a book on our polyculture trials and experiences. I\u2019d been thinking about writing this book for some time and responded with gleeful enthusiasm.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to announce that we have signed the publishing agreement and have already started to work on the book.\u00a0 The working title of the book is Polycultures \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Designing and Creating Polyculture Gardens, Farms and Landscapes, and you can find a draft overview of what the book will cover\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/balkanecologyproject\/photos\/pcb.1627676393961809\/1627675243961924\/?type=3&amp;theater\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>As I prepare for a winter of writing I\u2019m looking around at the books on our shelves and seeing that many of the books that inspired us to get us started with our project are from authors published by\u00a0Permanent Publications. So after a little deliberation on whether or not I should do a cheesy 10 top blog, here it is. I should really be spending this time writing the book, but I can\u2019t help but to write this post as a small token of my appreciation and respect to all the incredible authors and people at work, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/permanentpublications.co.uk\/\">Permanent Publications<\/a> for facilitating the dispersal of so much wonderful and useful knowledge.\u00a0 So here is my top 10 books that have inspired our project.<\/p>\n<p>The order does not denote how good I think the books are, it\u2019s more based around the order I read the books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 \u2013 THE PERMACULTURE GARDEN \u2013\u00a0 LINDA WINDROW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top of the list and the book that got me in and going with our project is by the\u00a0ingenious, wonderfully pragmatic and endlessly enthusiastic\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/witcheskitchen.com.au\/\">Linda Windrow<\/a> \u2013 The Permaculture Garden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44279\" src=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Linda-Woodrow.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Linda-Woodrow.jpg 339w, https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Linda-Woodrow-214x300.jpg 214w\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"googlepublisherpluginad\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY TOP 10 BOOKS THAT INSPIRED OUR PROJECT At the beginning of 2017\u00a0Permanent Publications\u00a0sent us an email expressing an interest to publish a book on our polyculture trials and experiences. I\u2019d been thinking about writing this book for some time and responded with gleeful enthusiasm.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to announce that we have signed the publishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[9657,319,11804,16817,19660],"class_list":["post-40832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-books","tag-food","tag-food-support-systems","tag-permaculture-design","tag-permaculture-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40833,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832\/revisions\/40833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}