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Gaia's Garden, by Toby Hemenway

Savvy Vegetarian Book Review

Gaia's Garden has become my favorite gardening book - It's a complete, user friendly guide to permaculture - organic, sustainable, ecologically sound agriculture scaled to the home gardener. Last summer I attended a workshop on sustainable agriculture. The entire thing was lifted word for word, complete with illustrations, from Gaia's Garden. The people giving the workshop were seasoned professionals, who knew it just doesn't get any better than this, so why not just go straight to the source!

Written in a non-technical, story-telling style, Gaia's Garden leads you from the concept of the garden as eco-system, from theory through practice, using examples, illustrations, techniques and tables of information for support. Author Toby Hemenway is supremely practical, balancing the ideal with the real. He says, "I'd much rather see gardeners consume some nonrenewable resources to create eventually self-sustaining gardens than have them sit paralyzed by the fear of committing an environmentally incorrect act."

A Few Things I've Picked Up From Gaia's Garden:

The Zone System - how to use every square inch of your yard to grow food
Natural Patterns - abandoning the straight and narrow
Sheet Mulching - letting the creatures who live in the soil build the soil
Cover Crops - when, what, where, how and why
Polycultural Gardening - inviting other species to live in your yard and help you garden
Garden Guilds - the effortless way to grow lovely organic fruit with natural plant communities
Tables of complete information on every kind of useful plant you could ever want, a glossary, bibliograpy, and resource list, and much more.

If you can only buy one gardening book, let it be Gaia's garden. I haven't bought it yet, I just get it out of the library often, and have it pretty much memorized.

Judy Kingsbury, Savvy Vegetarian