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Gaia's Garden - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition) Loot Price: R532
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Gaia's Garden - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)

Toby Hemenway

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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.

General

Imprint: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2013
First published: May 2009
Authors: Toby Hemenway
Dimensions: 253 x 201 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages: 313
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-029-8
Categories: Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Organic gardening
Books > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Organic gardening
LSN: 1-60358-029-8
Barcode: 9781603580298

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