Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
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Book Reviews of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommend this book.
It is a fun place to start, if you wish to create a sustainable garden. All the basics are covered, from grey water, to ponds, to guilds, to forest gardens, and it is enjoyable and easy reading.
Book Review: Well documented, practical and enticing
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book together with Patrick Whitefield's "Permaculture in a Nutshell" and read the latter first, which is a mere introduction compared to Toby Hemenway's "Gaia's Garden". Toby transmits his love for and knowledge of permaculture very well. I am trained as an agricultural engineer and did learn a lot while reading. He first teaches the basics and then rehearses them in the different chapters. The concepts sort of grow and develop while reading, which leaves you with the feeling that you don't have to open the book again to start designing your own garden. Toby's enthusiasm is also tangible and infectious.
The only thing that's missing for me is more examples and better documentation about existing permaculture gardens/farms. My design would be quite different from Toby's (I live in Spain and we have our own favourite mediterranean crops) but the book provides the tools needed to do it your own way and Toby comes over as an open minded teacher.
Book Review: So good it got stolen.
Summary: 5 Stars
Sad but true. As a former library worker, I can tell you there is no better praise than when a book gets ripped off.
It is annoying mine was lifted from me but it happened and I am sad; it's a good one.
Thanks for writing it.
Book Review: Gaia's Garden is a practical guide for transforming yard to Eden
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a fascinating read, very informative, and approachable for anyone trying out sustainable living, whether experimenting for the first time or with some experience. The author is inspiring and maintains a level of hopefulness not always found in environmental literature. He balances idealism with practicality and treasures the process of growing one's own food and flowers, recognizing that this is a lifelong journey and the gardener is always learning in a dynamic process. I find myself reading a chapter or so and being drawn out into my own yard to putter around with a new idea, then rocking on my front porch while I devour another chapter. This book is life-giving on several levels!Book Review: Highly recommended.
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the thousands of books, magazines, pamphlets and other advice on growing food, I have only two books I recommend above all others: Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway and Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. Anyone seriously interested in growing his or her own food successfully, and not burning out after a single season of disappointment, should invest the money and time to buy and read these two books. You can save yourself a whole lot of back-break, heartbreak and half-bake.