Gaia’s Garden A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

A fully updated and revised edition of a genuinely enlightening book, first published in 2000, when ‘permaculture’ was an unfamiliar, and perhaps baffling, term to many. Flash forward ten years to the present, a time when many of us are giving thought to reducing our ecological footprint and becoming more self-reliant, and we have this fully revised and updated edition. The central message is this: working with nature, not against her, results in more abundant, beautiful and healthy gardens. And while garden-focused, this book addresses a broader concept: how to use methods and concepts gleaned from nature to create backyard ecosystems that yield resilient, diverse, productive and beautiful spaces for humans and wildlife. With a new chapter on urban spaces, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space, and numerous useful tables, appendices, and resources.

Softcover, 8x10, 313pp. 2009.