The Permaculture Home Garden - Linda Woodrow

One of the best introductions to permaculture-style gardening we've seen.  Immensely readable and straightforward, Linda outlines her system for integrating chickens, vegies and fruit trees on a backyard scale in ways which combine productivity and beauty.

From the publisher:

Turn your backyard into a thriving permaculture garden!

Inspired by her own training in permaculture, Linda Woodrow has devised a totally integrated organic system of gardening that combines science with common sense. In THE PERMACULTURE HOME GARDEN she draws us into a warmly welcoming household where everyone shares the planting, helps to tend the hens, and relaxes after a satisfying day's work. Step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams make it easy to plan and plant a garden to suit your taste and space - a garden that not only looks wonderful but also yields bountiful fruit, herbs and vegetables.

You'll learn how to:

• choose pet-resistant varieties
• make marvellous compost
• shun toxic chemicals
• encourage useful predators
• avoid garden drudgery
• pick crisp produce all year round