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Gaia's garden : a guide to home-scale permaculture

Author: Toby Hemenway
Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., ©2001.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Picture your backyard as a lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens. The flowers nurture endangered pollinators. Bright-featured songbirds feed on abundant berries and gather twigs for their nests. The plants themselves are grouped in natural communities, where each species plays a role in building soil, deterring pests, storing  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Toby Hemenway
ISBN: 1890132527 9781890132521
OCLC Number: 45828461
Description: xvi, 222 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introducing the ecological garden -- A Gardener's ecology -- Designing the ecological garden -- Bringing the soil to life -- Catching, conserving, and using water -- Plants for many uses -- Bringing in the bees, birds, and other helpful animals -- Creating communities for the garden -- designing garden guilds -- Growing a good dorest -- Pop goes the garden.
Responsibility: Toby Hemenway.

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Picture your backyard as a lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens. The flowers nurture endangered pollinators. Bright-featured songbirds feed on abundant berries and gather twigs for their nests. The plants themselves are grouped in natural communities, where each species plays a role in building soil, deterring pests, storing nutrients, and luring beneficial insects. And finally, you are an integral part of the scene. Your garden tools have a slight patina of rust, because this garden requires so little maintenance. This is an ecological garden, which takes the principles of permaculture and applies them on a home scale. Key features of permaculture include: use of compatible perennials; non-invasive planting techniques; emphasis on biodiversity; specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions; highly productive output of edibles.--From publisher description.

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