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I own Mollison in hardcover and two copies of Tobe Heminway so I'm not exactly a disinterested party... but the goal of Permaculture as put forth by Mollison is "reclaim the desert" and Heminway as "landscaping should provide food and be maintenance-free." Somehow that was interpreted by the preppers as "effortless free food through swale and tree trunks." It's kind of interesting - if you read a book like "Five acres and Independence" you're reading pretty much what the permaculture freaks think of as permaculture; it's basically human-scale agriculture. If you want to see what Mollison was talking about, look to the Negev. Most of Mollison's work was in the Australian outback.