Growing a permaculture vegetable garden

Well done! You've given in to temptation and started your vegetable garden by experimenting with permaculture, the groundswell that has been shaking up certainties and habits in the garden for some years now. You've come, you've seen, you've sown, planted, mulched, ridged and carried out so many other gestures, each more recommended and commendable than the last: you want to continue, deepen, do better, more, succeed what didn't work...

Continue, even if sometimes the results, while not so disappointing as to drive you to shelve your hoes and weeders, have had the merit of making you appreciate the truth of the saying: "You're born a gardener, you die an apprentice".

Excellent news for all those who have seen their first steps so crowned with success that they only want to do better. But it's also good news for the others, who felt they were spending a lot of energy just to finally feed slugs or pathogens. And let's not forget those few for whom an unforeseen desire was born: to deepen their permacultural vision, to extend this practice beyond the boundaries of the garden, into the intimacy of their lives.

Xavier Mathias - Éditions Actes Sud - 64 pages