| Customer Reviews
inspiring, clear, very well-written book Hemenway is amazingly realistic and practical while being very inspiring. He is easy to follow and understand while including scientifically grounded and very technically sound explanations. Read this book.
I found this book hard to read, but it is a must have It took me 6 months to read this book. I kept getting annoyed by Hemenway's writing style. It's kind of part-memoir, part-name dropping, part-teaching tool.^M
Inspiring Gaia's Garden isn't about saving the world, but rather how to make your corner of it beautiful, productive and worth saving. It asks: How do you work with nature rather than against it? And Hemenway's answer is that you treat it as a partner trying to help you, rather than a foe to thwart and enslave. Written for gardeners who may have battled pests with poisons, labored with compost heaps and double-dug dry soils, the book explains how guilds, swales, sheet mulches, and succession can simultaneously lighten their workload, costs and burden on the land in the long run. As a beginner, I was overwhelmed by the detail, but the pictures are beautifully rendered, and the text inviting. I bought it last year and still find myself read reading it in spare moments every week. The many success stories that Hemenway includes keep me coming back to learn, plan and be inspired. |
