The ‘GREEN’ print
The project, already well advanced, commenced with the integration of 10 years of collected edits, updates and corrections into the text body and a comprehensive review the original Permaculture Guidebook from Timor- Leste with the authors, editors, advisor Rosemary Morrow and Permatil staff. This review included feedback from farmers, community groups, NGOs, Government agriculture and education staff as well as 9 years extra experience of the authors.
A content style and structure review took place involving all contributors, revising the format to enable the new edition to adequately cover the different sub-climates and geographical variations within the world’s tropical zones and include many new techniques and strategies. Based on the review findings, a strategic plan for each chapter was created including the addition of new chapters, chapter content, how to generalise the information and what the readers need to understand through reading it.
Following the reviews, the original content has been updated and rewritten. As per the original book, many sources were researched and referenced for each section and chapter. During the rewriting process any new illustrations needed were identified and listed. Working again with incredibly talented original guidebook artists, the new illustrations have been created. Mock up chapters in various formats were then created, with a preferred design style chosen and finalised.
The new international edition is now being edited chapter-by-chapter, first by co-author Ego Lemos, then technical and proofing editors Julianne Hartmann and Rob Swain, and finally by grammar and proofing editor Emma Coupland. Finally, the updated guidebook is being formatted, reviewed, edited one last time, then finalised and uploaded to the website. A long process!
To date six of the 18 chapters are complete and free to download online. Although only six of the 18 chapters are currently available, we have already seen over 5000 chapters downloaded across more than 100 countries. The Tropical Permaculture Guidebook website has regular traffic, our facebook page has attracted more than 2500 followers and we continue to develop connections across a worldwide network of organisations.
Once complete the guidebook will be available to buy in hard copy. We will provide more details as we get closer to publication.
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