Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture - 2nd Edition

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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. Put this book into action, and you'll begin to live an example that positively shifts your own community and beyond.

These materials have since been redistributed for use elsewhere, so no waste was created following its closure. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon.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.

This wonderful book shows you how by helping you create and enhance beautiful backyard ecosystems within the garden. Toby Hemenway was the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, as well as The Permaculture City. We can expect it tofeaturecontributions from Climate in Colour, UK Student Climate Network, Sound Advice (who tackle spatial inequality)andaward-winning UK hip-hop dance company Boy Blue. 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. Dominvs Group worked with Culture Mile and creative agency Play Nice to create ‘Gaia’s Garden, which also formed part of the Lord Mayor’s Culture and Commerce Taskforce’s ‘Enhancing the City’ initiative, which sought to fill repurposed commercial spaces across the City with carefully curated creative activity to animate the area and drive footfall.

Gaia’s Garden is enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home’s landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing. As the name suggests, Gaia’s Garden was underpinned by a radical conceptualisation of sustainability in celebration of the concept of ‘Gaia’, the Earth goddess, and centred events that encouraged personal learning and reflection on our anxieties, hopes, and actions that can contribute to change in wider society – and do so in a space that celebrates a diversity of voices. The classic book about ecological gardening–whatever size your garden–with over 250,000 copies sold! It is perhaps the only flower garden in the area, a sanctuary for exotic tropical plants spreading over 2. It's like a glimpse into a Utopian future where we all live on communes and there's no money or internet.

This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed for people in cities and suburbs with limited growing space. Although a temporary scheme, Gaia’s Garden was key to this strategy, and the project’s materials were reused in other local developments as a circular economy is a key theme of Dominvs Group’s social sustainability.To minimise waste, the site was created using sustainable temporary structures, with benches and tables made from recycled pallets and scaffolding boards.