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

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