{"id":989,"date":"2015-07-04T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tobyhemenway.wpengine.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=989"},"modified":"2016-12-20T02:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:59:19","slug":"gaias-garden","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/book\/gaias-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaia&#8217;s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gaia&#8217;s Garden<\/em>\u00a0is the best-selling permaculture book in the world. The enlarged, updated 2nd edition is the winner of the 2011 Nautilus Gold Medal Award.<\/p>\n<p>The first edition of <em>Gaia\u2019s Garden<\/em> sparked the imagination of America\u2019s home gardeners, introducing permaculture\u2019s central message: Working <em>with<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Due to <a href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/1431-tobys-battle-with-cancer-update\/\">Toby&#8217;s health<\/a>, we&#8217;re no longer selling books directly on this site.<br \/>\nPlease purchase from Amazon or another book seller.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gaia&#8217;s Garden<\/em> was named one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/10\/AR2009121004737.html\"> top ten gardening books of 2009<\/a> by <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><strong>Selected Excerpts from Gaia&#8217;s Garden:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Gaia\u2019s Garden: Table of Contents\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/gaias-garden-table-of-contents\/\">Gaia\u2019s Garden: Table of Contents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How to Use Gaia\u2019s Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/how-to-use-gaias-garden\/\">How to Use Gaia\u2019s Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Introducing Gaia\u2019s Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/introducing-gaias-garden\/\">Introducing Gaia\u2019s Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Gardener\u2019s Feathered Friends\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/the-gardeners-feathered-friends\/\">The Gardener\u2019s Feathered Friends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Three Sisters\u2014or Is it Four?\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/the-three-sisters-or-is-it-four\/\">The Three Sisters\u2014or Is it Four?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Using Natural Plant Communities to Guide Guild Design\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/using-natural-plant-communities-to-guide-guild-design\/\">Using Natural Plant Communities to Guide Guild Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How To: The Ultimate, Bomb-Proof Sheet Mulch\" href=\"https:\/\/tobyhemenway.com\/resources\/how-to-the-ultimate-bomb-proof-sheet-mulch\/\">How To: The Ultimate, Bomb-Proof Sheet Mulch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ecological gardening\u2014which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants\u2014can be done on any scale. It\u2019s fun and easy to create a \u201cbackyard ecosystem\u201d by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure<\/li>\n<li>Catching and conserving water in the landscape<\/li>\n<li>Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals<\/li>\n<li>Growing an edible \u201cforest\u201d that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed for people in cities and suburbs with 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 it\u2019s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the work that\u2019s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"style90\">Here&#8217;s what reviewers are saying:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style90\">\u201cThe world didn\u2019t come with an operating manual, so it\u2019s a good thing that some wise people have from time to time written them. <\/span><em><span class=\"style91\">Gaia\u2019s Garden<\/span><\/em><span class=\"style90\"> is one of the more important, a book that will be absolutely necessary in the world ahead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style90\">\u2014Bill McKibben, author of <\/span><em><span class=\"style91\">Deep Economy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"style90\"> and <\/span><em><span class=\"style91\">Hope, Human and Wild<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toby Hemenway\u2019s <em>Gaia\u2019s Garden<\/em> will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers\u2014a fusion of the practical and the visionary\u2014using the natural intelligence of Earth\u2019s symbiotic communities to strengthen and sustain ecosystems in which humans are a partner, not a competitor. An amazing achievement showing how we can and must live in harmony with nature!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Paul Stamets, author of <em>Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermaculture gardens are no longer a thing of the future. They are here to stay and flourish. <em>Gaia\u2019s Garden<\/em> is enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home&#8217;s landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Robert Kourik, publisher and author of <em>Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape\u2014Naturally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Gaia&#8217;s Garden<\/em> is simply the best permaculture book ever written, and is in the running for best gardening book ever written. No one should be without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Sharon Astyk, author of <em>Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Takes the native plants and organic gardening movement to the next level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Joel M. 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