Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition / Edition 2

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition / Edition 2

by Toby Hemenway
ISBN-10:
1603580298
ISBN-13:
9781603580298
Pub. Date:
05/19/2009
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN-10:
1603580298
ISBN-13:
9781603580298
Pub. Date:
05/19/2009
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition / Edition 2

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition / Edition 2

by Toby Hemenway
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Overview

"Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement."—Paul Stamets

The classic book about ecological gardening—whatever size your garden—with over 250,000 copies sold!

"A great book!"—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"—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy—even for the beginner—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 typical lawn and garden.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603580298
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 05/19/2009
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 89,459
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Toby Hemenway was the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, as well as The Permaculture City. After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories at Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. He taught permaculture and consulted and lectured on ecological design throughout the country, and his writing appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth ReviewNatural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. Toby passed away in 2016.

Visit his web site at www.patternliteracy.com

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the ecological garden
2. A gardener's ecology
3. Designing the ecological garden
4. Bringing the soil to life
5. Catching, conserving, and using water
6. Plants for many uses
7. Bringing in the bees, birds, and other helpful animals
8. Creating communities for the garden
9. Designing garden guilds
10. Growing a food forest
11. Permaculture gardening in the city
12. Pop goes the garden

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