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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition Paperback – 30 April 2009

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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.

About the Author

Toby Hemenway was the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, as well as The Permaculture City. After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories at Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. He taught permaculture and consulted and lectured on ecological design throughout the country, and his writing appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. Toby passed away in 2016.
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"Gaia's Garden is simply the best permaculture book ever written, and is in the running for best gardening book ever written. No one should be without it."--Sharon Astyk, author of Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front



"A gardener's blueprint for ecological abundance from the ground up."--Steve Spreckel, Acres USA (Refers to the first edition of Gaia's Garden)




"Become a sustainable producer of resources instead of a wasteful consumer. This wonderful book shows you how by helping you create and enhance beautiful backyard ecosystems within the garden. Put this book into action, and you'll begin to live an example that positively shifts your own community and beyond. Best of all, doing so with this book is simple, juicy, and fun."--Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond and http: //www.HarvestingRainwater.com



"Outlines a revolutionary course for the future of gardening and agriculture."--Dr. John Todd, founder of The New Alchemy Institute (Refers to the first edition of Gaia's Garden.)



"Permaculture gardens are no longer a thing of the future. They are here to stay and flourish. Gaia's Garden is enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home's landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing."--Robert Kourik, author of Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape--Naturally



"Practical science for making your yard produce food and beauty."--Rose O'Donnell, The Seattle Times (Refers to the first edition of Gaia's Garden)




"Takes the native plants and organic gardening movement to the next level."--Joel M. Lerner, The Washington Post (Refers to the first edition of Gaia's Garden)



"The world didn't come with an operating manual, so it's a good thing that some wise people have from time to time written them. Gaia's Garden is one of the more important, a book that will be absolutely necessary in the world ahead."--Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and Hope, Human and Wild




"There is so much wisdom in Gaia's Garden that I would need a dozen columns to do it justice. . . a bold, wonderful, nature-embracing and completely sensible vision of the future."--Justin Siskin, Los Angeles Daily News (Refers to the first edition of Gaia's Garden)



"This is a book you will use and re-use, and enjoy having around for a long time."--Peter Bane, The Permaculture Activist (Refers to the first edition of Gaia's Garden)




"Toby Hemenway's Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers--a fusion of the practical and the visionary--using the natural intelligence of Earth's symbiotic communities to strengthen and sustain ecosystems in which humans are a partner, not a competitor. An amazing achievement showing how we can and must live in harmony with nature!"--Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World



"Toby's fun, well-grounded, and engaging book is fast becoming a classic, and deservedly so. Practical yet visionary, broad-ranging yet focused on the basics one needs to know, this is a great place to start on the permaculture path. The new edition builds solidly on the success of the first. Congratulations!"--Dave Jacke, co-author of the two-volume Edible Forest Gardens

About the Author

Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct assistant professor at Portland State University. He wrote the foreword for Heather C. Flores' Food Not Lawns. After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. He is available for workshops, lectures, and consulting in ecological design. Visit his web site at http:// www.patternliteracy.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green Publishing Co; 2 edition (30 April 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1603580298
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1603580298
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm
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Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which for the past six years has been the world's best-selling book on permaculture, a design approach based on ecology for creating sustainable landscapes, homes, communities, and workplaces. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Education at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and a biologist consultant for the Biomimicry Guild. He teaches, consults, and lectures on permaculture and ecological design throughout the US and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. He lives in Sebastopol, California, where he is developing sites and resources for urban and small-town sustainability.

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5.0 out of 5 stars inspirational
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Okay, introduction to the topic with lots of great, practical, applicable tips and an enjoyable and inspirational read with lots of ideas
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4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT READ BUT the tables are impossible to read using a Kindle which is frustrating
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The book itself is great reading with some fantastic idea's. The one fault I would have (as at least 1 other reader has mentioned) is that the pictures and tables are almost impossible to read on the Kindle due to the small size. Is it possible for these tables to be sent via email so at least we could read what they are saying??
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The plant tables aspect in the book was horizontal and I was unable to rotate the page using kindle for PC windows 10.
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Brandon
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2024
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This book was full of solid down to earth information. Great illustrations and descriptions. My garden improved dramatically.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have!
Reviewed in Italy on 11 September 2023
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The book you must have. Period.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr gut!
Reviewed in Germany on 23 June 2021
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Ein sehr schönes Buch. Verdeutlicht viele der Ideen der Permakultur in verständlicher Weise, deren Sinn ich bislang nicht verstanden hatte. Bisher eins der besten Bücher zum Thema !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Permaculture 101
Reviewed in India on 8 June 2019
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This is a great introduction to the concepts and implementation of permaculture principles.
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Jeannette
5.0 out of 5 stars Un "must" para cada jardinero
Reviewed in Spain on 17 January 2017
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El libro es una maravilla - un "must have" para cada jardiner@. Te explica bien como crear y mantener un ecosistema complejo que puede alimentarte y que funcione sin pesticidas etc. y abonos químicos. Plantas útiles, comunidades de plantas, como atraer insectos y animales útiles, como aprovechar mejor el espacio disponible y un sinfín de temas - un manual imprescindible. Lamentablemente no encontré nada parecido en español ni tampoco una traducción.
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