The first edition Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

Now thoroughly updated, this classic in the field of high-yield, organic gardening is the world's leading resource on biointensive and sustainable gardening methods. It also covers fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops.

Heirloom expert Marie Iannotti brings us the fascinating stories of heirloom vegetables, but more importantly she tells us which varieties to grow for the best flavor and how to cultivate each one successfully. Growing your own has never looked or tasted so good.

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise...

"Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book 'is valuable...

Clear photographs of specific problems allow readers to determine exactly what's wrong with their plant; the accompanying charts then point them to the appropriate organic solution. They'll also benefit from the detailed cultural guidelines that tell ...

A healthy population of beneficial insects can eliminate the need for dangerous pesticides. Say goodbye to common pests like spider mites, aphids, and leafhoppers just by planting a beautiful garden full of the right flowers and herbs! At first it might seem counterintuitive to want bugs in your landscape, but insects are good for your garden especially the helpful ones that eat the pests feeding on your favorite plants.

Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields--resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. Here, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes,...