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Perhaps its occurred to you during a hike in the woods that the forest flourishes without any human intervention at all, no weeding, watering, pruning, fertilizing or composting. In this book Toby Hemenway shows how to design home landscapes, gardens and orchards to function more like natural ecosystems, which means less work and more productivity. Starting with the basics of ecology Toby discusses how to build soil using sheet mulch, how to catch and store water using swales, ponds & greywater systems, how to design gardens that attract beneficial insects and how to combine species into plant guilds. The culmination of the book will be of particular interest to tree lovers as the final chapter is on how to plant a food forest. This book is both practical and inspiring, filled with useful charts, tables and diagrams that youre sure to refer to for many years.
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