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Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture |  | Author: Toby Hemenway
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 313
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1603580298
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.048
EAN: 9781603580298
ASIN: 1603580298
Publication Date: May 19, 2009
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Product Description
The first edition of Gaia’s Garden, sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.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 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 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 new 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.
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Gaia's Garden August 27, 2010
D. Aldrete (USA)
Excellent book. Starting from the fact that the book is printed using green methods (and it looks real nice), this book is an invitation to common sense and finding equilibrium with and through nature. Don't be put off if the term permaculture is foreign to you. This is a totally accessible book that every gardener or aspiring gardener should have. It will change the way you see gardening forever and for the better so you'll be able to design gardens that ecologically speaking make sense (beautiful, high yielding and almost 100% self sufficient).
Gaia's Garden book August 22, 2010
Diann Dirks (Near Atlanta Georgia)
This is an excellent Permaculture Design reference and how-to book. I recommend it to all who wish to become self sufficient and utilize their land in a way that helps not harms the earth and gets best yield of food.
 Practical Information is Lacking August 20, 2010
Larry Greisel (Seattle, WA USA)
The ideal Permaculture Book would:
1. Focus on one specific bioregion. For example: "Permaculture in the Maritime Pacific Northwest". The author is a university professor living and gardening in Portland, Oregon, so this is a reasonable focus for a future permaculture book.
2. Describe in detail a large number of permaculture "Guilds" optimized for the Maritime Northwest climate.
3. For each Guild, specify in detail: the optimum sun exposure; water needed during July-August; ideal soil composition; labor required to control weeds; vulnerability to insects & soil pathogens (including symphylans), with recommended controls.
4. For each Guild, identify any need for a "long rotation" to control soil pathogens.
5. For each Guild, specify the typical lifetimes for various plants within the Guild, and the author's experience with methods to attract or restore biodiversity within the guild.
6. For examples of larger, multi-Guild installations: specify the hours of labor and cost of materials needed to terraform the site.
7. Specify optimum techniques to limit munching by deer, rabbits, dogs, birds, etc.
These requirements are certainly reasonable. For example, Steve Solomon's "Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" meets all of these requirements, with style.
 Do Not Buy The Kindle Version! August 1, 2010
Lie^n
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been dying to read this book for a few years now. I wish I had bought the book instead of the Kindle version. The Kindle version has a total of two pictures and no charts so you are left wanting and very disappointed. I will not buy any "how to" books for Kindle again as too much is left out. I feel like I was ripped off and if I were the author, I would not have agreed to having the book put on Kindle if they could not include the pics and charts that you get in the paper version.
A real shame because it is a good book. Just don't buy the Kindle version.
Outstanding Concept July 21, 2010
Kathleen Fuller (Stuart, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book because it gave me more ideas and inspiration to continue my permaculture land in Stuart, Florida. I purchased my small piece of city land in 2003, and the changes since then are incredible. I have over 33 fruit producing trees, organic vegetable gardens, plus flowering plants that have created a harmonized environment for this city's wildlife. I am finally installing my rain barrels and more is coming as I have time. I originated from Seattle, Washington and have lived in more than 5 homes where I planted edible plants as landscaping for the past 40 years. Thanks again to the authors for a great & inspiring book. Dr. Kathleen Fuller
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