There are no pre-requisites for the course but some prior reading is highly recommended.
Recommended reading list - all books available at CERES nursery at 10% discount to enrolled PDC students:
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Recommended (But optional) introductory reading prior to the PDC:
- Earth Users Guide to Permaculture - Rosemary Morrow ($40)
- Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison ($42)
Other permaculture related texts:
- Permaculture: A Designer's Manual - Bill Mollison
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability - David Holmgren
- Permaculture One - Bill Mollison and David Holmgren
- Permaculture Two - Bill Mollison
- Earth Users Guide to Permaculture - Rosemary Morrow
- Basics of Permaculture Design - Ross Mars
- Getting started in permaculture - Ross and Jenny Mars
- The permaculture home garden - Linda Woodrow
- Smart Permaculture Design - Jenny Allen
- Gaia's garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. 2nd Ed - Toby Hemenway
- City Permaculture: Sustainable living in small spaces. Vol. 1 - Earth Garden Publication
Inspirational or related reading:
(Also available at CERES nursery at 10% off for PDC students)
- The humanure handbook: A guide to composting human manure. Joseph Jenkins
- The compost book - David and Yvonne Taylor
- Edible Weeds and Garden Plants of Melbourne - Doris Pozzi
- Fabulous Food from Every Small Garden. CSIRO - Mary Horsfall
- The transition handbook. Aust and Nz edition - Rob Hopkins
- The Earth Gardener's companion - Jackie French
- Easy aquaponics: Backyard fish and food - Earth Garden Books
- Gardening Down Under: A guide to healthier soils and plants - Graeme Handreck
- The Earth Garden Water Book - Earth Garden Publication
- Botany for gardeners - Brian Capon
Further reading:
(Not currently available at the nursery but books we would like to stock in future or that our PDC tutors recommend as further reading)
- Rainwater harvesting for drylands vol. 1 and 2 - Brad Lancaster
- Mycelium running - How Mushrooms can help save the world - Paul Stamets
- Liquid Gold - The lore and logic of using urine to grow plants - Carol Steinfeld
- Farmers of Forty Centuries - FH King
- A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopald
- Confessions of a Beach Comber - EJ Banfield
- Pasture Doctor - Jo Millar
- Permaculture Plants - Jeff Nugent
- Create an Oasis with Greywater - Art Ludwig
- The Use of Trees and Shrubs in the Dry Country of Australia - Norman, Hall Chippendale.
- The Complete Australian Bushfire Book - Joan Webster
- Small Earth Dams - Katie Nelson
- Windbreaks - Steve Burke
- Forest Trees of Australia - Hall, Johnston, Chippendale.
- Weeds and what they Tell - Ehrenfried E Pfeiffer
- The New Complete book of Self sufficiency - John Seymour
- Energy From Nature - Peter Pedals
- Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable - Juliette de Bairacli Levy
