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# Practical Home-Scale Permaculture Comprehensive 2nd Edition Guide Ships Fast from Vermont Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition

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> 🌿 Cultivate Change: Grow More Than Just Plants, Grow a Movement!

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## Key Features

- • **From Lawn to Lush Oasis:** Learn proven methods like sheet mulching to convert water-guzzling lawns into sustainable food gardens.
- • **Join a Global Eco-Revolution:** Be part of a movement healing the planet one garden at a time—your small space, big impact.
- • **Trusted & Celebrated Resource:** Ranked #13 in Organic Gardening with 4.8 stars from over 2,400 passionate readers.
- • **Science-Backed, Practical Advice:** Detailed planting charts and sustainable techniques tailored for city and suburban gardeners alike.
- • **Master the Art of Regenerative Gardening:** Transform your backyard into a thriving ecosystem with expert permaculture design principles.

## Overview

Gaia's Garden, 2nd Edition by Toby Hemenway, is a definitive manual on home-scale permaculture that blends practical gardening advice with a visionary approach to sustainable living. Perfect for urban and suburban gardeners, it offers science-backed techniques, detailed planting guides, and a roadmap to regenerative design, empowering readers to transform their outdoor spaces and join a global ecological revolution.

## Description

"A book that will be absolutely necessary in the world ahead."—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and Hope, Human and Wild The revised and updated edition of the classic guide to ecological gardening for home gardeners to achieve more beautiful, abundant and forgiving gardens of any size Featuring new guidance on urban permaculture for people with limited growing space Many people think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. But it’s fun and easy even for beginners to create a backyard ecosystem 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 landscape • Providing a rewilded and biodiverse habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals • Growing an edible “forest” that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods 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. Gaia’s Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. You can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful no matter what size garden or yard you have. "An amazing achievement showing how we can and must live in harmony with nature!"—Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Review: An Essential Manual for All Gardeners on the Planet - If you have room on your shelves for only one book on gardening, this should be it. Toby Hemenway, who unfortunately passed away last December, was simultaneously a master gardener, a superb writer, and a man of immense knowledge and decency. His book is a comprehensive gardening manual for suburbanites, but it is much more--it is a roadmap to a revolution. Not, of course, a revolution as it is normally imagined--storming the barricades and all that. But rather, a deeper, more fundamental revolution in the way we live and think, starting, quite literally, from the ground up. (His chapter on topsoil will fundamentally change the way you look at the stuff under your feet!) Until this book came along, Permaculture was widely marginalized and stereotyped as a kind of quaint hippie agrarian movement, a vestige of the 70s, for folks who wanted to abandon modern industrial civilization to go back to the land, buy a few acres, and grow their own food. But Hemenway understood that this movement was not just about growing food, and not simply for hippie farmers, but a fundamental shift in orientation for our civilization with practical implications for everyone--including and especially city dwellers and suburbanites. For those who simply seek detailed gardening advice, on what to plant, when, and where, this book has copious information, practical advice, and suggestions, along with tables and charts galore. But it is much, much more. It introduces us to Permaculture as a way of thinking, a way of understanding design as a regenerative process, and of understanding ourselves as a part of, rather than apart from, the natural world we inhabit. Read it closely and carefully, and you will never be the same--you will transform not only your backyard, but also your understanding of life itself, and of your place in it. You will find yourself as part of a worldwide movement of quiet revolutionaries who are healing our planet one backyard at a time, and not only growing delicious, abundant food, but sowing the seeds of a regenerative future for all our children. Toby Hemenway has passed away--a great loss to our planet--but in this book, he has preserved and transmitted the essence of his practical knowledge and wisdom to all the rest of us. Read it, learn it, consult it, and then join the revolution, the healing process for our sick and dying planet, starting in your own back yard.
Review: The Permaculture Bible - For me, permaculture in its truest sense is not really an option, you see my "hippyness" only goes so far. There are people in Portland and Brooklyn that recycle their own excrement and use it to grow the cherry tomatoes that they feed to their gender neutral, vegan, and likely completely naked offspring. To these people, this book is merely evidence that human kind should collectively commit suicide...it is, after all, made of paper and therefore a tree was unceremoniously sacrificed so that styrofoam abusers like myself could learn that our every flatulent outburst kills yet another ecosystem. For those of us, though, who drink PBR because we like the way is makes us feel, who eat delicious animals and who proudly drive anywhere the hell we want - we can learn something from this manual. Widely considered to be the founding document of the permaculture movement, this book goes to great lengths to provide you with a very abstract template for transforming your craptastic sliver of suburbia into a useable, durable and aesthetically pleasing ecosystem. Lets face it, those bearded douche-bags in Bed-Stuy and the hirsute dumpster divers in OR-eh-gone are right about a few things: The Strokes, Trucker Hats and the fact that you, personally, are destroying the planet. Sure, you could Al Gore this sitch and buy carbon credits and if that's the case, hit me up as I'll gladly sell you as many as you need (Bitcoin accepted!). Assuming you're not a mindless twit who readily trades your cold hard cash for a the privilege of owning, um, nothing, then perhaps this book is the Gandolph to your Bilbo. It is well-written and exceptionally detailed with information and insight for complete newbies to experienced crap recyclers. Like many sub, sub-cultures, "Permaculture" can seem cult-like...one reason why books, this book, are great options. It stands to reason that no one read the "Complete Guide to Scientology" prior to signing up to be a "Thetanamy" or whatever Scientologists call their version of Juggalos. With this guide, you can limp in or opt out of the Permaculture movement without sacrifice or the potential for excommunication. If you're anything like me you'll quickly identify the information that lies within your personal realm of the possible and eschew the rest as Old Testament-like superlatives, best referenced in hushed tones or better, completely ignored. I am convinced that more should read this book, regardless as it certainly contains something for everyone...even Ann Coulter, who I'm thinking would use it to torture and kill babies. Not the author's intent I'd hope, but nothing is perfect. Buy the book, learn something and change you're world a little...please.

## Features

- Ships from Vermont

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #18,644 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture #134 in Home Improvement & Design Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,451 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Essential Manual for All Gardeners on the Planet
*by T***S on September 13, 2017*

If you have room on your shelves for only one book on gardening, this should be it. Toby Hemenway, who unfortunately passed away last December, was simultaneously a master gardener, a superb writer, and a man of immense knowledge and decency. His book is a comprehensive gardening manual for suburbanites, but it is much more--it is a roadmap to a revolution. Not, of course, a revolution as it is normally imagined--storming the barricades and all that. But rather, a deeper, more fundamental revolution in the way we live and think, starting, quite literally, from the ground up. (His chapter on topsoil will fundamentally change the way you look at the stuff under your feet!) Until this book came along, Permaculture was widely marginalized and stereotyped as a kind of quaint hippie agrarian movement, a vestige of the 70s, for folks who wanted to abandon modern industrial civilization to go back to the land, buy a few acres, and grow their own food. But Hemenway understood that this movement was not just about growing food, and not simply for hippie farmers, but a fundamental shift in orientation for our civilization with practical implications for everyone--including and especially city dwellers and suburbanites. For those who simply seek detailed gardening advice, on what to plant, when, and where, this book has copious information, practical advice, and suggestions, along with tables and charts galore. But it is much, much more. It introduces us to Permaculture as a way of thinking, a way of understanding design as a regenerative process, and of understanding ourselves as a part of, rather than apart from, the natural world we inhabit. Read it closely and carefully, and you will never be the same--you will transform not only your backyard, but also your understanding of life itself, and of your place in it. You will find yourself as part of a worldwide movement of quiet revolutionaries who are healing our planet one backyard at a time, and not only growing delicious, abundant food, but sowing the seeds of a regenerative future for all our children. Toby Hemenway has passed away--a great loss to our planet--but in this book, he has preserved and transmitted the essence of his practical knowledge and wisdom to all the rest of us. Read it, learn it, consult it, and then join the revolution, the healing process for our sick and dying planet, starting in your own back yard.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Permaculture Bible
*by D***G on August 27, 2013*

For me, permaculture in its truest sense is not really an option, you see my "hippyness" only goes so far. There are people in Portland and Brooklyn that recycle their own excrement and use it to grow the cherry tomatoes that they feed to their gender neutral, vegan, and likely completely naked offspring. To these people, this book is merely evidence that human kind should collectively commit suicide...it is, after all, made of paper and therefore a tree was unceremoniously sacrificed so that styrofoam abusers like myself could learn that our every flatulent outburst kills yet another ecosystem. For those of us, though, who drink PBR because we like the way is makes us feel, who eat delicious animals and who proudly drive anywhere the hell we want - we can learn something from this manual. Widely considered to be the founding document of the permaculture movement, this book goes to great lengths to provide you with a very abstract template for transforming your craptastic sliver of suburbia into a useable, durable and aesthetically pleasing ecosystem. Lets face it, those bearded douche-bags in Bed-Stuy and the hirsute dumpster divers in OR-eh-gone are right about a few things: The Strokes, Trucker Hats and the fact that you, personally, are destroying the planet. Sure, you could Al Gore this sitch and buy carbon credits and if that's the case, hit me up as I'll gladly sell you as many as you need (Bitcoin accepted!). Assuming you're not a mindless twit who readily trades your cold hard cash for a the privilege of owning, um, nothing, then perhaps this book is the Gandolph to your Bilbo. It is well-written and exceptionally detailed with information and insight for complete newbies to experienced crap recyclers. Like many sub, sub-cultures, "Permaculture" can seem cult-like...one reason why books, this book, are great options. It stands to reason that no one read the "Complete Guide to Scientology" prior to signing up to be a "Thetanamy" or whatever Scientologists call their version of Juggalos. With this guide, you can limp in or opt out of the Permaculture movement without sacrifice or the potential for excommunication. If you're anything like me you'll quickly identify the information that lies within your personal realm of the possible and eschew the rest as Old Testament-like superlatives, best referenced in hushed tones or better, completely ignored. I am convinced that more should read this book, regardless as it certainly contains something for everyone...even Ann Coulter, who I'm thinking would use it to torture and kill babies. Not the author's intent I'd hope, but nothing is perfect. Buy the book, learn something and change you're world a little...please.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good book.
*by C***O on April 11, 2026*

It is didactically written, gives you a clear, general picture of permaculture.

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