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ISBN 10: 1603580298
ISBN 13: 9781603580298
Author: Toby Hemenway
“Gaia’s Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement.”–Paul Stamets
The classic book about ecological gardening–whatever size your garden–with over 250,000 copies sold!
“A great book!”–Men’s Journal
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 work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:
Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
Catching and conserving water in the landscape
Providing a rewilded and biodiverse 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 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.
Table of contents:
Part One: The Garden as Ecosystem
1. Introducing the Ecological Garden
2. A Gardener’s Ecology
3. Designing the Ecological Garden
Part Two: The Pieces of the Ecological Garden
4. Bringing the Soil to Life
5. Catching, Conserving, and Using Water
6. Plants for Many Uses
7. Bringing in the Bees, Birds, and Other Helpful Animals
Part Three: Assembling the Ecological Garden
8. Creating Communities for the Garden
9. Designing Garden Guilds
10. Growing a Food Forest
11. Permaculture Gardening in the City
12. Pop Goes the Garden
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