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This folding saw features an ultra-efficient blade for cutting branches less than 10 cm in diameter. It is made by the Savoyard company Opinel, whose reputation has extended beyond the borders of France for over 100 years!

• This high-performance, very maneuverable saw features a carbon blade with an anti-corrosion coating that measures 18 cm in length .
• 2 rows of sharp teeth oriented towards the handle allow for effortless cutting by pulling .
• The 18cm blade is remarkably efficient for sawing branches up to 10cm in diameter.
• The very comfortable handle made of hard and resistant beech is varnished to better protect it from moisture and dirt.
• This saw is equipped with a safety hook. Its blade can be easily replaced if it breaks or becomes worn.

Key method of the permaculture vegetable garden

Raised bed gardening is an innovative method. Permaculture specialist Richard Wallner guides you step by step in creating, planting, and maintaining your raised beds, using detailed planting diagrams. Raised bed gardening offers numerous advantages: no tilling, no pesticides, no herbicides, no fertilizers, no back pain... and delicious, healthy, organic vegetables. Choose the vegetable garden of the future: sustainable, organic, and easy to maintain! Developed through a permaculture approach, a holistic and ecological method, raised bed gardening is also a solution for those who wish to implement sustainable development in their daily lives.

Author: Richard Wallner
Publisher: Rustica European Book
Publication date: 2019/06/26
Number of pages: 224
ISBN : 9782815314121

You can never have too many bags for the market, shopping, the library, or other outings. When they're made in Quebec and bear the colors of companies you particularly like, you use them even more!

• A prominent company logo adorns one side of the bag, while the other side features the beautiful illustration "Together, let's cultivate biodiversity" by artist Daphné Brissette.
• Made from good quality black polycotton (eight ounce twill) and fitted with two 60 cm loops, ideal for going over the shoulder.
• Practical, durable and attractive, it does not wrinkle or shrink in the dryer.
• Measures 45 cm wide by 40 cm high with a 15 cm gusset at the bottom.
• Made in Quebec.

Permaculture offers a very precise and coherent approach to planting and its organization.

Permaculture offers a precise and coherent approach to planting and its organization. In this book, discover how to choose the right plants to compose or complement your garden or vegetable patch: varieties, planting locations and design, beneficial plant associations, light and water requirements... From choosing trees to selecting perennials, including shrub management,

Discover Annie Lagueyrie's great tips for your vegetable garden and permaculture garden.
Annie Lagueyrie, a journalist specializing in gardening, studied biology and ecology and is currently vice-president of the Association of Garden and Horticulture Journalists (AJJH). She discovered permaculture in 2013 and decided to take a course at the Bec-Helloin farm in Normandy. "Enthusiastic about this approach to gardening and, more broadly, about the relationship between people and nature," she wants to share the principles of ecology applied to gardening.

She is the author of Permaculture, the guide for beginners published by Rustica.

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From marsh to peat bog, from pond to seashore, a diverse and often unsuspected flora supports an essential biodiversity.

Set off to discover a rich and precious environment

From marsh to peat bog, from pond to seashore, a diverse and often unsuspected flora supports an essential biodiversity.

• The ideal guide for both nature lovers and specialists seeking an inventory
• More than 300 well-documented species identification sheets (size, habit, leaves, flowers, fruits, habitat, distribution, notes)
• High-quality color photos and illustrations
• A clear description of the different wetland environments and their ecology
• An explanatory section on plant morphology
• A comparative gallery of flowers by color

Martine Lapointe has worked in university research and forestry teaching for over 20 years. An active member of FloraQuebeca for many years, she was an early contributor to the Flora of Bryophytes of Quebec-Labrador. Her talent as a nature photographer enriches a variety of publications.

The book also benefits from the valuable collaboration of Michel Leboeuf, science popularizer and recipient of the Hubert-Reeves prize, and Arold Lavoie, biologist and expert consultant in botany.

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Author: Martine Lapointe
Publication date: April 2014
Publisher: Quintin Michel
ISBN: 9782894356029

In this book, they present both the concept of permaculture and the basic principles for designing and maintaining a garden in harmony with the cycle of nature.

Living and cultivating one's garden in harmony with nature

Sepp and Margit Brunner make a living from the produce of their farm, which they have cultivated using permaculture methods for years. In the Austrian Alps where they were born, their farm has become a place for agricultural experimentation and personal growth. They organize seminars there to share their knowledge.

In this book, they present both the concept of permaculture and the basic principles for designing and maintaining a garden in harmony with the cycles of nature. Whether it's organizing space, combining species, promoting the water cycle, retaining heat, or caring for plants, they guide us step by step from theory to practice.

With them, let's transform our gardens and balconies into oases that will supply us with fresh and healthy produce, gladden our hearts with an abundance of colors and scents, and shelter our friends from the animal and plant world.

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Authors: Sepp & Margit Brunner
Edition: du Rouergue
Size: 17 x 23 cm
Pages: 176
Color photos and illustrations
Publication date: 02-2016 (French edition)
ISBN: 9782812609992

A reference book on human permaculture. A manual for using permaculture thinking and design to increase our capacity to act for personal, collective, and planetary well-being. The author has created a tool called "The Design Canvas," which can be used for any type of project (individual, collective, personal, professional, etc.).

Author: Looby Macnamara
Publisher: PermaSens
Publication date: December 2020 for the French edition (first British edition published in 2012)
Pages: 334
ISBN: 9782960268102
Size: 19 x 25 cm
Language: French

Permaculture is a systemic approach that allows us to create viable ecosystems by drawing inspiration from the laws of nature.

Climate change, economic crisis, rampant urbanization... A growing number of people are realizing that a change in behavior is inevitable, both individually and collectively. But how can we align our lifestyles with the resources available on the planet? How can we prepare to live without fossil fuels? Human permaculture offers some keys to navigating this delicate period of transition.

Permaculture is a systemic approach that creates viable ecosystems by drawing inspiration from the laws of nature. While primarily considered in its agricultural application for the past forty years, it is examined here in its broadest sense: today, pioneers of change aspire to transform their lives in all their dimensions. Human permaculture therefore encompasses not only agriculture, but also culture, including the economy, housing, and relationships between individuals.

This richly illustrated manual by Marie Quilvin is brimming with information and inspiring examples to reconnect us with nature and adopt a more ethical, less predatory lifestyle. It offers tools and engaging exercises to stimulate our creativity, discover our personal niche, build cohesive work teams, establish permaculture designs, and (re)discover our vital links with water, soil, and forests. A chapter dedicated to food also teaches us how to nourish ourselves with algae and insects—a vast source of nutrition for the future.

Unique in the French-speaking world, Human Permaculture is designed to guide us step by step through this transition and help us put our talents to work for our environment. It's high time we anticipated change rather than simply reacting to it!

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Authors: Bernard Alonso, Cécile Guiochon
Edition: Ecosociety/Practical Guides
Publication date: 2016-011
Pages: 208
ISBN: 978-2-89719-287-7
Language: French

Eight natural principles for effortless gardening

If you still need to buy compost, fertilizers, pesticides, topsoil or any other product to grow your plants, this little guide will interest you!

In nature, plants germinate, grow, flower, and produce fruit or wood to serve us, without us having to add anything to them. Why shouldn't it be the same in our flowerbeds?

The principles you will discover in this short guide prove to be the answer, even the truth, because they work. Failing to comply with them inevitably leads to consequences, consequences that cost us dearly in time, money, dissatisfaction, and environmental impact through product consumption and the resulting waste.

Are you ready to see the plant world with a different, but advantageously beneficial, perception?

Effortless gardening, yes, it's possible; if you let nature do the work for you! And rejoice, it does it for free for those who don't abuse it!

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Author: Serge Fortier
Edition: From the summit
Dimensions: 13 x 20 cm (5 x 8 in)
Page: 125, color
Publication date: March 2013
ISBN: 9782896960309

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How to kill several birds with one stone while gardening?
This bible offers a guide to how to have an abundant garden that requires less physical and financial investment!

This book unveils a gardening approach called "The Respect Nature Approach," which allows you to live in perfect harmony with your environment. Just as everything in nature is interconnected, the Respect Nature Approach enables zero-waste gardening by intelligently using the resources of our environment to meet our gardening needs.
When properly understood and applied, everyone can garden as they please and have beautiful harvests of healthy fruits and vegetables without having to buy any expensive products, without any cost, with less effort, while managing at the source the organic matter available at home and around their home.
This book reveals at least eight eco-friendly ways, other than traditional composting, to make the most of organic matter. Kitchen scraps, tree leaves, grass clippings, crop residues, old foliage, weeds, aquatic plants, wood chips, ramial chipped wood (RCW), and more are all materials that can be easily used in your garden. While composting isn't suitable for everyone, the other methods of managing these materials revealed in this book will surprise you with their simplicity, their logical approach, and how much they will improve your gardening!

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from Vegetable Garden: doing more with less .

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Author: Serge Fortier
Publisher: PRATICO-PRATIQUES EDITIONS
Dimensions: 20 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 in)
Page: 192, color
Publication date: February 2023
ISBN: 9782896588435

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Permaculture shows, of course, how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, maximizing useful interactions.

Permaculture, a term coined in Australia in the 1970s, involves creating sustainable habitats for humans by following nature's patterns. It is ecological design applied, initially, to agriculture, but also to housing, domestic life, and local development.

In this lively and lavishly illustrated mini-manual, Graham Burnett lays out the design principles found in natural systems that we should strive to emulate: an abundance of boundaries and transition zones, multiple and successive functions, cycles, and self-sufficiency. The idea is to work with nature, not against it, minimizing the effort required (the author's optimal level of intervention: "doing nothing").

Permaculture shows, of course, how to manage an eco-garden, compost and create a mini food forest, but also how to gradually set up a local exchange system or create a business, maximizing useful interactions.

This new classic of ecological design, reminiscent of the famous Whole Earth Catalog found in every town in the 1970s, has had three editions since its first publication in England 15 years ago. This is its first appearance in French.

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"A simple and engaging introduction, a very useful and important tool."
— Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement

Author: Graham Burnett
Publisher: Écosociété (Montreal, QC)/resilience
Publication date: 2012 (2013 for the French edition)
Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-2-89719-060-6

The right to the city is a cry for help and a demand for renewed cities that meet the needs and aspirations of citizens. Yet, although food is a cornerstone of human life, urban hunger is widespread, and it clearly violates the right to the city, few studies have linked these two rights. This essay addresses this gap by examining the community initiative Notre Quartier Nourricier (Our Nourishing Neighbourhood) in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood, which creates an inclusive space where citizens reclaim their neighbourhood through food production and consumption, while simultaneously developing a sense of belonging to their living environment and community.

A constant racket.
Burning concrete.
Grey skies.
A horizon narrowed by thousands of buildings.
A neighborhood populated by strangers.

As the growth and sprawl of major urban centers continue in Canada and elsewhere, is it possible to imagine a new way of living together? What if cities also became green and nourishing? This essay explores the role of food – beyond urban agriculture – in the reappropriation of neighborhoods by their residents.

What if, by (re)integrating food into the urban fabric, we reinvent the city?

With this attempt at repair, I hope to inspire a reconnection to others, to the world around us. Our future depends on it.

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Author: Marie-Pierre Beauvais
Edition: XYZ
Dimensions: 12.7 x 20.32 cm (5 x 8 in)
Page: 192
Publication date: November 2, 2022
ISBN: 9782897724108

In this book, the author shows how to apply these principles concretely and successfully in small gardens.

Kurt Forster is one of the pioneers of permaculture, which he has been teaching for years in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The principle consists of imitating natural processes by recreating a true ecosystem within the garden, which means, among other things: making the best use of existing conditions and creating micro-biotopes, limiting external inputs and recycling everything that is produced, promoting species diversity to avoid diseases and create beneficial associations, layering crops vertically as in forest systems, optimizing the interactions between the different elements, etc.

In this book, the author shows how to apply these principles practically and successfully in small gardens. Using his own garden as an example, he explains in detail how his family has become almost self-sufficient year-round in fruits, berries, salads, and vegetables, while his potato production covers half the year, and his production of grains, fish, mushrooms, and corn significantly enriches their daily lives.

Not forgetting the aesthetic dimension and the well-being provided by a garden where life has reclaimed its rights.

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Illustrated
Author: Kurt Forster
Publisher: Ulmer/Do It Yourself (France)
Publication date: 2014
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9782841387212

The Zero Waste Goal is a tool to support them in this civilizational shift. This short essay raises awareness of a new ecological civic responsibility.

Warning: a clash of civilizations is on the horizon! Within a few years, our economy will have found ways to completely recycle the waste it currently generates. Glass, paper, cardboard, plastic, electronic devices—a truly post-industrial society will finally be organized so that every manufactured product is recycled or reused. From broken toasters to threadbare clothing, from empty bottles to leftover food.

But to achieve this, consumers will also have to change their lifestyles. The Zero Waste Goal is the tool to support them through this civilizational shift. This short essay raises awareness of a new environmental civic responsibility and encourages us to be more vigilant in our consumption choices and purchases. The "popa" played by Claude Meunier in the popular television series La Petite Vie is resolutely relegated, with his green bag, to the old world.

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Author: Marlène Hutchinson
Publisher: MULTIMONDES
Publication date: April 2017
ISBN: 9782897730277
Language: French

The garden is full of life, it's up to you to learn how to take care of it!

By browsing through the guide, you will discover a wealth of exciting information about plants as well as tips for becoming an excellent gardener.

Content :

• 1 guide to learning how to garden
• 1 trowel
• 1 hoe
• 15 descriptive maps

Age: 5 years and older.

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Author: Julie Boudreau
Edition: Little Geniuses - Canadian book
Type: Softcover book box set
Pages: 32
Publication date: April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9782898531743
Language: French

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The first comprehensive and easy-to-consult guide with caterpillars and distribution maps.

The first comprehensive and easy-to-consult guide with caterpillars and distribution maps.

Are you fascinated by butterflies? Discover all the diurnal species of our region in the first book on the market to offer you not only hundreds of high-quality photos of all butterflies, but also striking illustrations of our caterpillars. In addition to informative texts on the biology and ecology of these captivating insects, the guide features complete identification sheets for each species (description, similar species, flight periods, habitat, host plants, abundance, etc.). Everything to satisfy both the beginner and the seasoned observer.

Editor-in-chief of Nature sauvage magazine, Michel Leboeuf is the author of several books and articles popularizing natural sciences. His journalistic work has been recognized by the Quebec Entomological Society and the Canadian Forest Service. He is also the recipient of the Hubert-Reeves Prize for the best popular science book in French in Canada.

Stéphane Le Tirant, curator and head of collections at the Montreal Insectarium, is also one of the driving forces behind the annual Butterflies Go Free event at the Montreal Botanical Garden. A consultant for the creation of numerous aviaries around the world, as well as for the Insectia series, he has several scientific publications and entomological expeditions to his credit, among other achievements.

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Authors: Stéphane Le Tirant and Michel Leboeuf
Hardcover
Publication date: April 2012
ISBN: 9782894355800

What would our societies be without oil? Brutally transformed. We would have to quickly relearn how to produce countless things to ensure our survival.

What would our societies be like without oil? Brutally transformed… No more computers, no more food from around the world, no more cars or planes, no more plastic; we would have to quickly relearn how to produce countless things to ensure our survival. But would we be capable of such self-sufficiency?

This catastrophic scenario is far from paranoid. On the contrary, it represents a near future that we will have to face sooner or later. Combined with climate change, peak oil (the end of abundant and cheap oil) demands a drastic change in our lifestyles, an energy transition that would end our collective vulnerability. Since our governments refuse to take the necessary measures, it falls to us, as citizens, to take the initiative and prepare ourselves.

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Author: Rob Hopkins
Edition: Ecosociété
Publication date: 2010
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9782923165660

Today, it is more urgent than ever to review production methods based on the use of fossil fuels, pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

Today, it is more urgent than ever to rethink production methods based on the use of fossil fuels, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. "EM," a mixture of microorganisms developed by Japanese researcher Teruo Higa, addresses this issue and proves to be invaluable allies for those who wish to be both active participants and beneficiaries in a natural biological system.

"Higa knew he had just made an extraordinary discovery [...]. What he could not yet guess was how universal the use of these microbial combinations would become," writes Anne Lorch.

This book, in which everyone can glean what interests them, is richly illustrated and clearly structured.

• A broad overview takes us from the current environmental situation to the world of EM, addressing topics such as soil life, water biology, microbiology, etc., and prepares us to better understand the role of these microorganisms.
• A very detailed description of the manufacture of EM products and their use (in fields, orchards and vineyards, meadows and stables, in our homes, gardens and bodies of water, in crafts and industry, for our health and that of animals) is then provided.
• User testimonials, with concrete examples, conclude this work.

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Author: Anne Lorch
Publisher: Le souffle d'or (France)
Publication date: 2011
Pages: 382
ISBN: 9782840584001

Crops and farming practices are evolving at an increasingly rapid pace due to the globalization of trade, cutting-edge scientific knowledge, and climate change. Agricultural entomology is no exception. […] Whatever their motivation, everyone will come away from this reading dazzled by the beauty and imagination displayed by Nature.

Some harmful insects have become resistant to the control methods used to combat them, others, recently arrived, are wreaking havoc, and still others are being introduced to control these pests. Meanwhile, species classification is undergoing a revolution driven by phylogenetics, and there is an unprecedented surge in research on integrated pest management to meet new socio-health and environmental requirements. This book therefore focuses on the essentials. It brings together everything needed to identify the main harmful and beneficial insects, with a strong emphasis on illustrations.

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Author: Roger Doucet
Publisher: Berger - Canadian book
Category: Pure Sciences, Agricultural Science.
Publication date: 2017-02-21
Size: 20.5 cm x 23.0 cm
Pages: 452
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-921416-87-0
Language: French

The perfect book for balconies and terraces.

The perfect book for balconies and terraces.

Experience micro-gardening! Planting, sowing, and growing vegetables, herbs, or edible flowers in containers has never been easier or more accessible. You can place them anywhere: on your balcony, your terrace, or even your roof!

The Container Garden provides relevant, original, and highly useful information on plant selection, planting, maintenance, pest control, harvesting, and preservation. For each type of edible plant you choose to grow, whether it's arugula, basil, or daylilies, the book specifies, for example, the minimum diameter and depth of the pot to use, as well as the volume of potting soil. It offers a wealth of advice to help you successfully grow your crops and enjoy the unparalleled taste of fresh, healthy food.

This practical guide invites you to unleash your inspiration and creativity. It promises great horticultural and… gastronomic pleasures.

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from the book The Potted Vegetable Garden

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Author: Bertrand Dumond
Publisher: MultiMondes Publishing
Dimensions: x cm (x in)
Page: 271, color
Publication date: March 2019
ISBN: 9782897731281
Language: French

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