Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture: A Guide to Home-Scale Permacu

Description: Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 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. Publisher Description The first edition of "GaiaA aa s Garden, " sparked the imagination of AmericaA aa s home gardeners, introducing permacultureA aa s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardeningA aawhich involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plantsA aacan take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, itA aa s fun and easy to create a A aAbackyard ecosystemA aA by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including: Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure Catching and conserving water in the landscapeProviding habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animalsGrowing an edible A aAforestA aA that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foodsThis revised and updated edition also features a new 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 itA aa s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work thatA aa s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden. Author Biography Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaias Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct assistant professor at Portland State University. He wrote the foreword for Heather C. Flores Food Not Lawns. After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. He is available for workshops, lectures, and consulting in ecological design. Visit his web site at http:// Details ISBN 1603580298 ISBN-13 9781603580298 Title Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Author Toby Hemenway Format Paperback Year 2009 Pages 313 Edition 2nd Publisher Chelsea Green Publishing Company GE_Item_ID:158718544; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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