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

Former biologist Toby Hemenway seamlessly weaves together permaculture and ecological concepts together in perhaps the greatest and most useful garden book ever written. Starting from the basics of soil, water, plants, and fauna, the book builds these garden elements up and combines them brilliantly to create a highly productive, beautiful and ecologically sound landscape. I'm rarely in the garden without it. -Jared