Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
A practical introduction to applying permaculture principles at the home-garden scale, showing how to design productive, low-maintenance, ecologically balanced landscapes by mimicking natural ecosystems. It explains soil building, water management, plant guilds and perennial strategies, and offers hands-on techniques—like sheet mulching, swales, edge planting and polyculture—to create resilient, edible gardens. The book emphasizes observation, small-step design, and creating mutually beneficial plant communities to reduce labor while increasing yield, biodiversity and ecosystem health.
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- Published
- 2001
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- American
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- English
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