Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway is one of the best books on permaculture for people who want to work with nature to make their land productive and easier to care for. Permaculture explains how to group and grow plants that work well together, how allowing nature to "do her own thing" eventually restores a balance that feeds us, brings pests under control and encourages useful insects and animals to flourish and help sustain the garden.

This book gives you useful information to show you how to get started in this earth-friendly process. This second edition includes how-to's for both rural and city spaces.

Kathi Linz

Practical Permaculture for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth by Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein

Practical Permaculture for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth by Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein offers hundreds of suggestions for transforming your property into a bountiful, earth-friendly environment. The landscape will produce all kinds of food for your family and it will take much less work than a typical garden. Permaculture helps you understand ways to work with nature, which brings pests under control, encourages healthy growth of plants, and yields a bounty for the grower.