[Scpg] Paul Wheaton, Jocelyn Campbell, and Dave Bennett read Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway and review it chapter by chapter.

[lakinroe at silcom.com]

http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/326-podcast-043-gaias-garden-chapters-forward-to-3/

Paul Wheaton, Jocelyn Campbell, and Dave Bennett read Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway and review it chapter by chapter. The forward talks about creating an ecosystem in a jar, and the preface introduces the “meadow-inspired food garden” in which it is “riotously abundant” and nature does most of the work. For chapter 1, the group discusses working with nature, insects in the garden, Dave shares about his neighbor growing up’s shaman’s garden, monocrop disadvantages, the irony of growing only native plants and relying on non-native food, and focusing on understanding what nature is doing rather than fighting it. For chapter 2, the group briefly talks about the Bullock Brothers Farm, and mature vs. immature ecosystems. 

For chapter 3, Jocelyn shares the quote: “for a garden to be considered ecological, the new landscape should: require few outside inputs…increase biodiversity, create rather than destroy wildlife and plant habitat, enhance air, water, and soil quality, and eventually result in less work instead of more for human occupants.” The group also speaks on the importance of edge, garden/farm maps, keyhole gardens, and garden lay-out.

Related Stuff:

044 – Gaias Garden chapter 4
075 – Gaia’s Garden chapter 7
079 – Gaia’s Garden chapter 8, part 2
136 – Gaia’s Garden Chapter 9
078 – Gaia’s Garden chapter 8, part 1