Gaia's
Garden
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
by
Toby Hemenway
$24.95
Softcover
- 224 pages
Imagine
a garden
filled with edible flowers, bursting fruit and berries, carpeted with
scented herbs and tangy salad greens, all blended in an eye-catching
palette of color and texture. The flowers also nurture endangered pollinators.
Bright-feathered birds share the abundant berries and gather twigs for
their nearby nests. Each plant plays a role in building soil, deterring
pests, storing nutrients and luring beneficial insects.
This
is not a dream. This is your own backyard.
Gaia's
Garden A
Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture describes
a gardening system that combines the best features of wildlife habitat,
edible landscapes, and conventional flower and vegetable gardens into
a self-renewing landscape that lets nature do most of the work. Rather
than mastering your garden with gas-spewing rototillers and chemical
fertilizers, let Toby Hemenway show you how to create a backyard ecosystem
that balances the needs of humans and nature.