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Toby Hemenway,
www.patternliteracy.com author of the
best selling book Gaia's Garden, tells us how to create beautiful and
functional ecosystems in our own backyards. Hemenway, a Permaculture
teacher, writer, and lecturer, talks about basic Permaculture
principles, guilds, and how to build soil fertiility. Interview on
Sustainable World Radio with host Jill Cloutier
Friday, 9-10am, Sustainable
World Radio
KCSB 91.9 FM
PST.
also streaming live on www.kcsb.org, interviews
posted later on www.sustainableworldradio.com
TOBY'S HEMENWAY BOOK
Gaia Garden: Homescale Permaculture: How to
Create a Backyard Ecosytem 2nd Edition
revised and expanded
second edition
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/gaias_garden_second_edition:paperback
Book Data
ISBN: 9781603580298
Year Added to
Catalog: 2008
Book
Format:
Paperback
Book
Art: Color photos
& illustrations
Dimensions: 8 x 10
Number of
Pages: 320
Book
Publisher: Chelsea
Green Publishing
Release
Date: April 29,
2009
Web Product
ID:
442
"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
In these hard economic
times, home gardening is a rapidly growing phenomenon. The first
edition of Gaia's Garden was the first major North American
book on home scale permaculture. In this extensively revised and
expanded second edition, Toby Hemingway - a writer, teacher and expert
on permaculture - broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture
approach for the urban and suburban growers.
Hemingway shows that it is
fun and easy to create a "backyard ecosystem" by creating
communities of plants that can work cooperatively and provide a
variety of functions, including:
- Building and maintaining
soil fertility and structure
- Catching and conserving water in the
landscape
- Providing habitat for beneficial
insects, birds, and animals
- Growing an edible "forest" that
yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods
One of the highlights of
this new edition is a chapter on urban permaculture, designed for
people living in urban and suburban areas who have very limited
growing space. In using basic permaculture principles you create a
more diverse, productive, natural, and beautiful garden that requires
less work to maintain.
Gaia's Garden, A
Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, is a
must-read for anyone wanting to work with nature and transform their
garden into a beautiful and abundant habitat.
Please let us know if you
would like a review copy of this important new edition, or would like
to interview the author.
Hemmingway's current
project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland,
Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture, consults and
lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has
appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural
Home, and Kitchen Gardener.
Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book
on
permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. He is
a
Scholar in Residence at Pacific University and an adjunct professor at
Portland
State University. Toby teaches permaculture and consults and lectures
on
ecological design throughout the country.