Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture - 2nd Edition

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Gaia’s Garden is enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home’s landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing.

During the national lockdown, concepts such as mutual aid were brought to the forefront of public consciousness, with mutual aid groups becoming commonplace across the country. Dominvs Group’s in-house Social Value Unit exemplifies their commitment to putting community value at the heart of their strategy, both throughout the development lifecycle and over the long term.While the activities provided structure and focus, it was the conversations that were encouraged and facilitated to take place between participants where the transformative work took place – where connections were built for future engagement and action. The meal, prepared by Tallawah Ali, was a beautiful and nourishing demonstration of putting sustainable and just agricultural work into practice. Discussions about online activism and direct action in the form of demonstrations often focus on their impact on the external world. The thriving green space brought 1,500 people, predominantly from under-represented communities, back into the heart of the City as part of the City of London’s Culture and Commerce taskforce, boosting London’s post-pandemic recovery.

More than200 young Londonerswere involved in not just the building and gardening but also the curatingofGaia's live events programme.Makeshift wooden walls sheltered a stage and a smattering of wooden benches amongst an ethereal meadow of planters, streaming banners, and artworks. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden. The thriving green space brought 1,500 people predominantly from under-represented communities back into the heart of the Square Mile.

Supported by Dominvs Group, the Gaia’s Garden project’s objective was to bring young people from underprivileged backgrounds into the City of London post-pandemic to enjoy green space, while simultaneously reconnecting with both the city and nature to improve community wellbeing. Audiobooks from Chelsea Green Publishing | We have partnered with Glassboxx to bring Chelsea Green books in audio formats, easily and securely.Gaia’s Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. Please share any data or figures that support your entry, for example increased footfall, happiness surveys, event attendance and/or observed changes in behaviour. Platforms such as Climate in Colour are lauded for their capacity to instantaneously reach an audience at scale – yet, what is often lost in these discussions is that this mass outreach is atomised and individualistic. It's like a glimpse into a Utopian future where we all live on communes and there's no money or internet.