What Reviewers and Authors Are Saying About Gaia's Garden
 

“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

"Toby Hemenway’s Gaia’s Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers—a fusion of the practical and the visionary—using the natural intelligence of Earth’s 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!"
—Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

“Permaculture gardens are no longer a thing of the future. They are here to stay and flourish. Gaia’s Garden is enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home's landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing.”
—Robert Kourik, publisher and author of Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape—Naturally.

“Gaia's Garden 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.”
—Sharon Astyk, author of Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front.

"Takes the native plants and organic gardening movement to the next level."
—Joel M. Lerner, The Washington Post

"A bold, wonderful, nature-embracing and completely sensible vision of the future."
—Justin Siskin, Los Angeles Daily News

"Practical science for making your yard produce food and beauty."
—Rose O'Donnell, The Seattle Times

"A gardener's blueprint for ecological abundance from the ground up."
—Steve Spreckel, Acres USA

"Outlines a revolutionary course for the future of gardening and agriculture."
—Dr. John Todd, founder of The New Alchemy Institute.

Just out! The revised, expanded, all-color Second Edition!
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to
Home-Scale Permaculture

by Toby Hemenway

Chelsea Green, 2009.

“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