Have you ever dreamt of having a house in the hills, surrounded by a piece of land where you can grow your own food, feed your animals and maybe have a little pond to relax nearby? And you would also like it to be efficient? Then maybe you are already familiar with the concept of permaculture. Bill Mollison was one of the person that coined the term: to keep it simple is a way to set up your land/farm/garden for maximum result with minimum maintenance while focusing in using natural methods to achieve this goal. Sure, the initial effort is higher than just randomly plow a piece of your garden, but in the long run you will earn a lot in time.

It is not a surprise, in fact, that the main focus of the book is in the initial planning of the space. This is not a manual with a list of animals or plants that you are suggested to have nearby your home: it's centered in helping you to make the right choices before even starting to plant a seed (heck, sometimes even before deciding which piece of land to buy). After all, it's an introduction, so it makes perfect sense. And don't be fooled, you are not required to own a thousand acres of forest amidst nothing to learn something useful; the power of this book comes exactly from the fact that the principles of permaculture are universal and scalable in any kind of situation, even if you just have a little terrace in the center of a big city (even if I hope for you that it's just a temporary situation).

To sum it up I think this book is a must for anybody that want to embrace the path of self-sufficiency or, without being so drastic, for everybody interested in a more natural way to handle your land