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Learn More. Chelsea Green Publishing. Gaia's Garden. "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 Garden is one of the more important, a book that will be absolutely necessary in the world ahead. "—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and Hope, Human and Wild The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’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 gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. About the Author Toby Hemenway View Toby's full profile page > Toby Hemenway on Sustainability Edible Forest Gardens. This comprehensive two-volume book constitutes an in-depth course in ecological garden design.
Written in a passionate, clear, and engaging style, it integrates the vision and ecology of forest gardening with practical design, establishment, and management strategies. While we wrote Edible Forest Gardens as an integrated whole, each volume can stand alone as valuable learning tools and references. For details on these books, see below. Save 27% off the $75 per volume retail price: $55 per volume (plus shipping and handling), signed by the author. Please include a note with your order saying to whom Dave should sign the book. Use the button below to order within the US, Canada, Mexico, or overseas using Paypal or a credit card. Get a PDF of the Table of Contents of both volumes here. NOW IN ITS 4th PRINTING! Winner: 2006 Media Award Silver Medal from the Garden Writer's Association, Click below to see excerpts of Volume 1 at the Chelsea Green website.Volume 1 Preface Volume 1 Introduction. Edible Forest Gardens-Home. Permaculture by David Holmgren. David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s.
It draws together and integrates 25 years of thinking and teaching to reveal a whole new way of understanding and action behind a simple set of design principles. The 12 design principles are each represented by a positive action statement, an icon and a traditional proverb or two that captures the essence of each principle. Holmgren draws a correlation between every aspect of how we organize our lives, communities and landscapes and our ability to creatively adapt to the ecological realities that shape human destiny. For students and teachers of Permaculture this book provides something more fundamental and distilled than Mollison's encyclopedic Designers Manual.
For the general reader it provides refreshing perspectives on a range of environmental issues and shows how permaculture is much more than just a system of gardening. About the Author. Holy Shit by Gene Logsdon. "With a combination of deep knowledge, longtime farming experience, and great humor, Gene Logsdon tells us everything we don't know about human and animal wastes, and what to do about it.
As the author writes, 'Sooner or later we have to live in the same world as our colons.' Not to mention the wastes of all the animals we raise for food! This is the book to read if you give a crap about crap. "—Sim Van der Ryn, Author of The Toilet Papers In his insightful new book, Holy Shit, Managing Manure To Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure—our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. With his trademark humor, his years of experience writing about both farming and waste management, and his uncanny eye for the small but important details, Logsdon artfully describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure, and human manure to make fertilizer and humus. Gene Logsdon does not mince words.
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