February 9, 2010
Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
- ISBN13: 9781603580298
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The first edition of Gaia’s Garden, sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide rang… More >>
Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
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If you are a homeowner who cares about our world, this book is for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
I would highly recommend this book for the information on space and compost saving ideas.
Rating: 5 / 5
I highly recommend this book. It does an excellent job of bringing many different elements of permaculture together. MUST BUY!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Permaculture is, above all else, a design process, and Toby Hemenway explains clearly how it’s done. You’ll look at your entire life in a new way once you get in the habit of thinking about how energy flows through your landscape, whether your landscape is a high-rise apartment or a working farm.
The book is full of practical ways and specific examples of how to develop your own design and implement it. Like many others, I find I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Rating: 5 / 5
Very, very pleased with this book.
Before I read Gaia’s Garden, I would look out on my 1 acre lot and think, “I sure wish we had more room to grow more food.” After reading this book, I look out and think, “WOW! Look at all this SPACE we’ve got!”
This book guides you through the process of assessing your existing lot, giving you loads of ideas of what you could do, and then assist you in planning out exactly what you want to do.
In the back of the book, the chart of food-bearing trees, plants and vines alone was worth the cost of the book. It was extraordinarily helpful in coming up with my plans for my lot.
This book has not only given me the ability but also the confidence that I can successfully create a sustainable forest garden in my own backyard. Sure, it will be a lot of work up front, however, I am confident it will produce more food than we could possibly consume, year after year without having to replant, use herbicides, or insecticides.
On a philosophical level, this book helped me to understand that Nature works in numerous overlapping networks of mutually-beneficial systems. We can pit ourselves AGAINST Nature, by using today’s agricultural methods, or, we can work WITH Nature to produce literal Gardens of Eden.
Google “offgridders” to find my blog where I’ll be posting updates on my implementation of the ideas in this book.
Rating: 5 / 5