Gaia's garden : a guide to home-scale permaculture / Toby Hemenway.
Picture your backyard as a lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens. The flowers nurture endangered pollinators. Bright-featured songbirds feed on abundant berries and gather twigs for their nests. The plants themselves are grouped in natural communities, where each species plays a role in building soil, deterring pests, storing nutrients, and luring beneficial insects. And finally, you are an integral part of the scene. Your garden tools have a slight patina of rust, because this garden requires so little maintenance. This is an ecological garden, which takes the principles of permaculture and applies them on a home scale. Key features of permaculture include: use of compatible perennials; non-invasive planting techniques; emphasis on biodiversity; specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions; highly productive output of edibles.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 1890132527 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781890132521 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xvi, 222 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., c2001.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-210) and index. |
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Subject: | Natural landscaping. Organic gardening. Permaculture. Gaia hypothesis. |
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