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Hemenway's book was my introduction to ecological garden design. The most important take away from the book: You don't have to wait. Hemenway shows readers how to start designing an ecological garden, basically anywhere. It's easy to get into the *ahem* weeds of garden design, but he navigates these deftly. There are many examples of successful permaculture in unexpected places. You don't have to start with perfect soil and conditions. Good conditions are created by introducing plants and starting virtuous and interacting web of organisms.
Please note that in Auroville it is not allowed drinking alcohol, smoking indoors, and taking drugs. It's internally inconsistent. "Work with nature. Be minimal in your designs." But also, step 1, do major earthworks, step 2, install a humongous water cistern and a bunch of plastic watering tubes. There's plenty of that disconnect in this book. In accordance with government guidelines to minimise transmission of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), this property currently isn't accepting guests from certain countries, during dates where such guidelines exist. Gaia’s Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.
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Gaia’s Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement.”–Paul Stamets Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things):
Featuring a garden and views of garden, Gaia's Garden Guest House is a sustainable guest house located in Auroville, 1.7 km from Auroville Beach. The air-conditioned accommodation is 8.1 km from Sri Aurobindo Ashram. There is a sun terrace and guests can make use of free WiFi, free private parking and an an electric vehicle charging station.Primarily intended as a chillplace to hang outand relax, the garden also exists to teach visitors allaboutenvironmental causesthrough workshops, installations and performances. More than200 young Londonerswere involved in not just the building and gardening but also the curatingofGaia's live events programme. Photo: Francis Augusto This book is quite the game changer if you, like me, had a very traditional understanding of gardening and what a garden should look like. As a designer, it completely changed my way of seeing landscaping and what a landscape should look like and work like. This book teaches the basics of permaculture in a practical, non preachy way. It helps you design a forest garden, gives you the bases to work with large scale gardens and small scale gardens -though the actual small scale gardens could use more information, I'm sure there's other books on small spaces. What's important is that once you understand the principles -the major one can be summed up in: nature is doing fine without you, maybe you should let her do her thing- the garden looks like a completely different canvas. It's not 'how can it look good?' but 'what is missing in this ecosystem?'. Why wasn't I thinking about gardens as ecosystems?
You can't claim to be no-carbon-impact and off the grid if you're on the internet. The internet is the griddiest grid that ever gridded.It's sexist. It's sexist in its culture from what I've seen and read, and it's sexist that a lot of these ideas come from aboriginal women and from Westernized women like Ruth Stout and Esther Deans and that English woman of 100 years ago who I admit I'm forgetting the name of today. Seldom are those women referenced (One line in this book mentions Stout.) None of those women got rich off the core ideas. Nope. A bunch of men came along and capitalized on the ideas. You might counterargue, "Hey, that's just capitalism doing its thing. They stepped up to grab the available money and the women didn't." But these people allegedly hate capitalism, except, it seems, when they are charging for courses and consultations and raking in adsense money and "gofundme"ing their new greenhouses. Sidebars: lanto Evans’s Polyculture, Jajarkot’s Advanced Polyculture, Growing the Three Sisters Guild 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.” Gaia's Gardenis a collaboration between Culture Mile, Play Nice, property developers Dominvs Group, and a little-known outfitcalled'the Barbican'. Conceptualised by five young, female creatives from different disciplines, the idea is to present sustainability through an inclusive, feminist lens.
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