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

from KbookB

Imagine creating a beautiful landscape that provides food, sanctuary for animals and practically takes care of itself. In the book "Gaia's Garden," Toby Hemenway promises that all of these things are possible. Permaculture aims to use nature's rhythms by understanding and using the relationships ...

from patl

This is perhaps the best text I've read yet on permaculture gardening, and is very strong at tree guilds and edible landscape design.

from SomeRandomGuy

Gaia's Garden paints a picture of of how to bring Nature back into your home landscape. Who wouldn't enjoy sitting on their patio picking grapes or kiwis from their porch while shaded by this same leafy trellis? This is a wonderfully well written and well researched book with loads of examples ...

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Gaia's Garden was inspirational! It got me excited about moving things around in my yard this year. We have two “traditional” row-style vegetable plots, and we will be trying no-till on one to begin with. We just planted a cherry tree a year ago and will implement the apple guild recommendations ...

from haiku.tx

I was told repeatedly that if I could only own one permaculture book, this should be it. Inheriting my copy from a permy friend who upgraded to the next edition, I have to agree with those who said it. This is THE home scale permaculture 101. If you have any interest in learning about- or trying ...