Gaia's Garden

Paperback328 pages8 x 10 inches Excited about permaculture but not sure where to start? Gaia's Garden is the best intro guide to adapting permaculture ideas and techniques on a home scale. We use permaculture as one of the tools in our toolbelt and apply many of the concepts in different applications on our farm and home garden. This is a wealth of knowledge if you are looking for ways to expand your gardening methods and create sustainable systems. FROM THE PUBLISHER 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 w