This Permaculture slideshow goes through soil building techniques laid out by Bill Mollison in his book A Designer's Manual. These include earthworks, creating complex and multistoried plant systems, recycling detritus and banana circles, using aquatic weeds biomass, recycling crop wastes and animal manures, designing in hedgerow and mulch plants, and using green manures and ground covers. We also briefly look at housing and energy systems of the tropics.

2. Earthworks

3. Swales are water harvesting ditches and mounds on contour. Earthworks

13. Complex and Multistoried Plant Systems

15. Diversity Natural Forest Forest Gardening

18. Logs and Branches

22. DETRITUS

23. Banana Circle Banana Circle

24. Banana Circle 1 in= 50 cm

25. 3.25 m 62.5 cm 2 m 29 cm 66.5 cm Banana Circle 1 in= 50 cm

26. Organic matter Banana Cassava Banana Circle Lemongrass Sweet Potato 1 in= 50 cm Taro

27. Organic matter 1 in= 50 cm

28. Organic matter Banana 1 in= 50 cm

29. Organic matter Banana Cassava 1 in= 50 cm

30. Organic matter Banana Cassava Vetiver, Lemongrass, or Citronella 1 in= 50 cm

31. Organic matter Banana Cassava Vetiver, Lemongrass, or Citronella Sweet Potato 1 in= 50 cm

32. Organic matter Banana Cassava Vetiver, Lemongrass, or Citronella Sweet Potato Taro 1 in= 50 cm

33. AQUATIC WEEDS

35. Chinampas:Reconstructed Wetlands Ditch and Mound Increase land increase water Increase productivity

36. CROP WASTES AND MANURES

38. Hedgerow and Mulch plants

43. Green Manures and Ground Covers

49. Housing A house should: Heat itself, Cool itself, Catch its own water.

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