Book Notes: The Permaculture Handbook :: Chapter Eleven

Here are my highly personal notes on Chapter Eleven: Soil — The Real Dirt in Peter Bane’s The Permaculture Handbook (2012). Any misrepresentations of Bane’s words or work

Earth Knows No Desolation

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.” –  George Meredith  * My neighbours have plumy ornamental grasses whose seven-foot tall

Wondering What On Earth Happened

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it

Harvesting Leaves

Gardening hasn’t really gotten into full swing here yet in northern New England but soon it will and I’ll have lots of garden details and