By Toby Hemenway

When reaching for one of my reference books about permaculture, my hand often goes to Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Second Edition by Toby Hemenway. A comprehensive resource for practical home-scale permaculture gardens with easy to understand applications for the average gardener and permaculture designer alike.

Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal

From garden design to raising honey bees, chickens, and other city animals, this book is an exceptional resource.

Due to it’s common sense, can-do approach on regeneratively having your own food supply right outside your door, even first time gardeners will find this to do be worth adding to your personal library.

I highly suggest checking out other great reads by Carpenter as she even has a best seller on her list. Happy reading and even happier gardening!

Douglas W. Tallamy

Nature’s Best Hope, a New York Times Bestseller, gives “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard,” by Douglas W. Tallamy.

Though the term permaculture, doesn’t appear in the index of this book, Tallamy’s solutions to the daunting ecological crisis totally encompasses the Principles of Permaculture.

Tallamy questions, “What if each American landowner made it a goal to convert half of his or her lawn to productive native plant communities?

Even moderate success could collectively restore some semblance of ecosystem function to more than twenty million acres of what is now ecological wasteland.