Gaia's Garden (eBook)

A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition

Toby Hemenway (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009 | 2. Auflage
328 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-223-0 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement."e;--Paul StametsThe classic book about ecological gardening--whatever size your garden--with over 250,000 copies sold!"e;A great book!"e;--Men's JournalGaia'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 "e;ecological gardening"e;-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 "e;backyard ecosystem"e; by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:Building and maintaining soil fertility and structureCatching and conserving water in the landscapeProviding a rewilded and biodiverse habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animalsGrowing an edible "e;forest"e; that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foodsThis 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.

Inhalt

1. Introducing the ecological garden

2. A gardener's ecology

3. Designing 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

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2009
• Zusatzinfo: Color photos and illustrations throughout
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: backyard gardening • backyard permaculture • best garden book • best guide resilience • Bill Mollison • Cover crops • David Holmgren • Ecological • ecological garden • Ecology • edibles • edible weeds • Food Prices • food security • food shortage • forest garden • Gaias • gaias garden • Garden • Garden design • garden guides • Gardening • Gardens • grain shortage • grow your own • home gardener • Homestead • Inflation • Local food • Off-grid • off-grid living • organic • Organic Gardening • perennial • perennials • permaculture • permaculture design • prepper guide • self-reliant • small scale • start your garden • Survivalist • Urban Farming • urban garden
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-223-1 / 1603582231
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-223-0 / 9781603582230