A guide to urban permaculture: balcony, courtyard, apartment, garden...
Permaculture can be grown anywhere, even in the city!
Today, urban agriculture initiatives are multiplying, and permaculture is emerging as a new source of inspiration for imagining the nurturing city of tomorrow. A veritable art of living, it offers tools for creating productive gardens and rethinking the place of nature in the city.
This guide explains in detail how to apply permaculture principles on your balcony, terrace or roof, in a courtyard, a passageway or even an apartment. Small gardens, and especially shared gardens, are not forgotten, as is animal husbandry, which is part of the permaculture approach. Testimonials from those who have already taken the plunge show the way forward.
Never gardened before? That's no obstacle! Most people who discover permaculture have never put their hands in the soil. They simply wanted to adopt a more ecological way of life, to eat healthy produce, to embellish their daily lives and to forge links with those around them. And this can start at home, on a sidewalk corner or an innocent patch of lawn.
A new image of the city is taking shape, in which nature invades the asphalt and becomes partly edible!
Carine Mayo - Éditions Terre Vivante - 223 pages