Living with the land: a manual for market gardeners (3-volume set)

Living with the Land is a three-volume gardener's handbook in a beautiful slipcase, comprising 1,048 pages, 2,000 illustrations, and 100 chapters. This exceptional manual is for anyone, amateur or professional, who wants to create a natural and productive farm or garden.

Climate change is accelerating, biodiversity is collapsing, our model of civilization is faltering… Isn’t it time to invent together a new way of inhabiting the Earth, letting ourselves be inspired by nature?

At the Bec Hellouin Organic Farm, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer and their team strive to meet human needs while caring for all forms of life. They practice ecoculture, a new form of agriculture that mimics natural ecosystems. Scientific research has validated the results of this approach, which, thanks to simple and effective hand tools, allows them to produce vegetables and fruits of excellent taste and nutritional quality, with yields that can be ten times greater, per unit area, than those of mechanized organic farming. This abundant production is accompanied by a rapid increase in soil fertility. A micro-farm designed according to the Bec Hellouin approach constitutes a carbon sink and an oasis of biodiversity.

More than any other book to date, this practical manual covers a wide range of topics: growing vegetables and fruits, forest gardens, small-scale livestock farming, cereal crops, tools, and the design of a micro-farm in all its aspects. It is intended for anyone, amateur or professional, who wants to create a natural and productive farm or garden. It will guide beginners through their first steps and support experienced professionals for years to come.

This exceptional book proposes a way of life in harmony with the earth. It allows everyone to take concrete action for the world of tomorrow.

The organic farm of Bec Hellouin , in Normandy, has become an international reference in permaculture and ecoculture!

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from Living with the Earth.

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Authors: Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer
Publisher: Actes Sud
Dimensions: 24 x 32 cm (9.5 x 13 in)
Page: 1048
Publication date: May 2019
ISBN: 9782330119478