[Scpg] NEW BOOK Paradise Lot, Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City, by Eric Toensmeier

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

hi John
  you can place an advance order through Chelsa Green  website by going 
to , I just placed an order
wes
ps thanks John for the great talkstory blog on Eric's Workshop at 
Occidental

http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/paradise_lot:paperback


On 11/17/12 9:00 PM, John Valenzuela wrote:
> Edible Forest Gardeners,
>
> Please note that the book 'Paradise Lot' is not yet available, but 
> should be released by Chelsea Green some time in January 2013, as I 
> mentioned in my blog post.
>
> JV
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> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:22:04 -0800
> From: lakinroe at silcom.com
> To: Scpg at arashi.com
> Subject: [Scpg] NEW BOOK Paradise Lot, Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of 
> an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City, by Eric 
> Toensmeier
>
> Paradise Lot
> Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible
> Garden Oasis in the City
> by Eric Toensmeier
> http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/paradise_lot:paperback
>
> "Eric has a leisurely, entertaining, and personable way of revealing how
> his own edible forest garden evolved. Along the way, the reader will
> learn design guidelines that can be used in virtually any climate. A
> good read full of insight and science."
> ---Robert Kourik, author of Designing and Maintaining Your Edible
> LandscapeÂ---Naturally
>
> How we did it and the challenges along the way.
>
> When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a
> run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was
> barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete,
> asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would
> become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise"
> replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa---all
> told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an
> innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden---intended to
> function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing
> most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed
> suppression---also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated
> greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.
>
> In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles
> and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food
> plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the
> adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of
> detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive
> permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of
> two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the
> garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on
> both counts, they succeed.
>
>
> About the Author
>
> Eric Toensmeier
> Eric Toensmeier calls himself a "socially engaged plant geek." He has
> spent much of his adult life exploring edible and otherwise useful
> plants and how they can be used in designed ecosystems. He is also
> co-author with Dave Jacke of the two-volume permaculture design manual
> Edible Forest Gardens.
> http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/edibleforest2?phpMyAdmin=cc7f526775741054d7ad2ee8c5bc73d1
>
> Eric has worked as a small farm trainer at the New England Small Farm
> Institute (Belchertown, MA) (www.smallfarm.org) and currently manages
> the Tierra de Oportunidades new farmer program of Nuestras Raices
> (www.nuestras-raices.org) in Holyoke, MA. There he is designing and
> installing a permaculture landscape in concert with immigrant farmers ...
>
>
>
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