Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds (Book Review)

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The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is a comprehensive overview of reed bed systems and treatment wetlands for household effluent treatment. Going from system selection and design to construction, planting and maintenance; this guide offers the reader a complete how-to manual for getting your own reed bed system up and running.

Reed beds are an efficient, effective, low-energy filter system for protecting local groundwater and streams from septic tank effluent and greywater. This thorough book explains the background to wastewater treatment and water quality and describes how reed beds work to get wastewater clean again.

Reed beds and treatment wetlands are well-established elements within permaculture design, and many of the permaculture principles are readily applied to them. This guide goes a step further than simply explaining how to design and build reed beds by providing greater insight into permaculture as a design tool and exploring how to maximize the yields, beneficial relationships, and sustainability of the reed bed and indeed the whole sewage treatment process within your site.

Complete with an overview of planning guidelines for the UK and Ireland, The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is an invaluable resource for homeowners who want to build their own system. It is also an essential reference manual for permaculture designers, architects, engineers, landscape designers, planners and others with an interest in this area. Easy to follow and clearly set out, with beautiful line drawings to illustrate the text, this is a book you'll find both useful and inspiring.

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Ecovillage Library beginner's reading list:

1. Permaculture A Designer’s Manual: https://amzn.to/2JQ83ja

2. The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: https://amzn.to/2YAe5I3

3. Nature and the Human Soul: https://amzn.to/2TEVB5n

4. The Hand-Sculpted House: https://amzn.to/2HLnLKx

5. Holistic Management: https://amzn.to/2HMNnXu

6. The Art of Living: https://amzn.to/2V4oJo9

7. A New Earth: https://amzn.to/2HMNN00

8. Creating a Life Together: https://amzn.to/2TFZwiw

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About Christopher Kinney:

Christopher Kinney works in the field of sustainable development and engineering and has worked with over 30+ communities around the world in the areas of water resources, natural building, sustainable agricultural systems, renewable energy, appropriate technology ecological footprint analysis and ecovillage design.

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