Gaia's garden : a guide to home-scale permaculture

by Toby Hemenway

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Withdrawn

Call number

SB439.H44 2001

Collection

Publication

White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., c2001.

Description

Gardening. Home Design & Déco Nonfictio HTML: "Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement."â??Paul Stamets The classic book about ecological gardeningâ??whatever size your gardenâ??with over 250,000 copies sold! "A great book!"â??Men's Journal Gaia's Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. Many people mistakenly think that "ecological gardening"â??which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plantsâ??can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it's fun and easyâ??even for the beginnerâ??to create a "backyard ecosystem" by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including: Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure Catching and conserving water in the landscape Providing a rewilded and biodiverse habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals Growing an edible "forest" that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods This revised and updated edition also features a chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it's established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that's needed to maintain the typ… (more)

Language

Original publication date

2001

Physical description

xvi, 222 p.; 26 cm

ISBN

9781890132521
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