Inspired by her own training in permaculture, Linda Woodrow has devised a totally integrated organic system of gardening that combines science with common sense. In The Permaculture Home Garden she draws us into a warmly welcoming household where everyone shares the planting, helps to tend the hens, and relaxes after a satisfying day's work. Step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams make it easy to plan and plant a garden to suit your taste and space - a garden that not only looks wonderful but also yields bountiful fruit, herbs and vegetables.
The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.
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Getting Started In Permaculture
This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners.
A step-by-step guide to creating resilient and prosperous households introduces permaculture as a practical way to live well with less money, convert waste into wealth, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Goats can clear brushy, thorny and viney edges of unwanted plants. With the right management, pigs can build small earthworks such as terraces and swales; they can also root out brambles, trees and shrubs, seal ponds, excavate stones ...
Offers information to gardeners of any skill level on how to create permaculture in their own backyard.
Explores the novel, environmentally friendly organic-gardening system of the Three Sisters Farm, which centers around a bioshelter--a solar greenhouse that integrates growing facilities, poultry housing, a potting room, storage, kitchen ...
Some gardeners have taken this idea and run with it, as in The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book. In this classic, Ruth describes how eight inches of spoiled hay applied to her garden beds built phenomenal, weed-free soil.
Working entirely in harmony with nature, The Permaculture Garden shows you how to turn a bare plot into a beautiful and productive garden.