Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
by Toby Hemenway

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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Author: Toby Hemenway
Foreword: John Todd
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2001-04-01
ISBN: 1890132527
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Chelsea Green

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Book Review: Gaia's Garden Overrated
Summary: 2 Stars

For anyone with any history with permaculture the book pretty much treads familiar paths, telling us about herb spirals, keyhole beds, native plants (with few examples), stacked functions, swales and berms, with some examples of design.

If you don't know what the previous terms mean, I think you couldn't go wrong trying this book out (there are some expensive permaculture books out there). If you are familiar with these terms, I would suggest a natural landscape book or something a little more in depth and technical which ideally is written for your region so you can start applying the general ideas of this book.
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Summary of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Permaculture is a verbal marriage of ?permanent? and ?agriculture.? Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:
  • use of compatible perennials;

  • non-invasive planting techniques;

  • emphasis on biodiversity;

  • specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions;

  • highly productive output of edibles.
    Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens. The visual impact is of Monet?s palette, a wash of color, texture, and hue. But this is no still life. The flowers nurture endangered pollinators. Bright-featured songbirds feed on abundant berries and gather twigs for their nests.
    The plants themselves are grouped in natural communities, where each species plays a role in building soil, deterring pests, storing nutrients, and luring beneficial insects. And finally, you--good ol? homo sapiens--are an integral part of the scene. Your garden tools are resting against a nearby tree, and have a slight patina of rust, because this garden requires so little maintenance. You recline into a hammock to admire your work. You have created a garden paradise.
    This is no dream, but rather an ecological garden, which takes the principles of permaculture and applies them on a home-scale. There is nothing technical, intrusive, secretive, or expensive about this form of gardening. All that is required is some botanical knowledge (which is in this book) and a mindset that defines a backyard paradise as something other than a carpet of grass fed by MiracleGro.

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