Permaculture for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Sustainable Living

Biographical Note:
Nicole Faires is an adventurer, self-proclaimed eccentric, wife, and mother of three girls. She grew up in a semi-nomadic homeschooling family and spent her early years in rural Montana on a hobby farm where she raised chickens, grew her own food, learned to crochet, read out-of-print books by Masanobu Fukuoka, and dreamed of the Amish. She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading and continues to seek new adventures and local food with her family in beautiful British Columbia, where she lives as a champion of renaissance sustainable lifestyles.


Publisher Marketing:
Take your garden to the next level--organic, native, and natural!

• Building green homes and passive solar design
• Growing edible plant communities and forest gardens
• Using no-till and natural farming methods
• Creating microclimates for extended growing seasons
• Raising livestock with ecological foraging techniques
• Transforming urban backyards into food-abundant oases