Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition
"Become a sustainable producer of resources instead of a wasteful consumer. This wonderful book shows you how by helping you create and enhance beautiful backyard ecosystems within the garden. Put this book into action, and you'll begin to live an example that positively shifts your own community and beyond. Best of all, doing so with this book is simple, juicy, and fun."--Brad Lancaster, author ofRainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyondand http://www.HarvestingRainwater.com"Toby's fun, well-grounded, and engaging book is fast becoming a classic, and deservedly so. Practical yet visionary, broad-ranging yet focused on the basics one needs to know, this is a great place to start on the permaculture path. The new edition builds solidly on the success of the first. Congratulations!"--Dave Jacke, co-author of the two-volumeEdible Forest Gardens"The world didn't come with an operating manual, so it's a good thing that some wise people have from time to time written them.Gaia's Gardenis one of the more important, a book that will be absolutely necessary in the world ahead."--Bill McKibben, author ofDeep EconomyandHope, Human and Wild"Permaculture gardens are no longer a thing of the future. They are here to stay and flourish.Gaia's Gardenis enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home's landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing."--Robert Kourik, author ofDesigning and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape--Naturally"Gaia's Gardenis simply the best permaculture book ever written, and is in the running for best gardening book ever written. No one should be without it."--Sharon Astyk, author ofDepletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front"Toby Hemenway'sGaia's Gardenwill be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers--a fusion of the practical and the visionary--using the natural intelligence of Earth's symbiotic communities to strengthen and sustain ecosystems in which humans are a partner, not a competitor. An amazing achievement showing how we can and must live in harmony with nature!"--Paul Stamets, author ofMycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World