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Gaia’s Garden is the best-selling permaculture book in the world. The enlarged, updated 2nd edition is the winner of the 2011 Nautilus Gold Medal Award. Spilling over the walls – in contrast to the intimate gathering within – the clamouring, rancorous chants of an Animal Rebellion protest saw an outpouring of anger, hope, and desperation melded in a raging tide of outraged bodies. It was a very different physical manifestation of the desire for change. Nourishing discussions in community spaces and direct action on the streets; work undertaken on the self, and work undertaken out in the world; an online platform making its first debut in a physical space – the many faces of environmental action both tangible and intangible turned to look at one another, each distinct yet sharing the same body. The illusion of a fractured movement was, if only momentarily, shattered to pieces. After a year where many forms of community organising, engagement, and activism had been forced to move online, this colliding of actions-on-the-ground seemed draped in symbolism: now more than ever there is a clamouring for change, and physical spaces must play a front-and-centre role in making that happen.
Gaia’s Garden is simply the best permaculture book ever written, and is in the running for best gardening book ever written. No one should be without it.” Permaculture gardens are no longer a thing of the future. They are here to stay and flourish. Gaia's Garden is enlightening and required reading for all people who desire to make their home's landscape healthy, sustainable, and healing." --Robert Kourik, author of Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape--NaturallyFive young female creatives - Tina Wetshi, Ramzia Jawara, Eleanor Grace Hann, Ananya Parwar and Andrea Siso - led the concept behind Gaia’s Garden. Please share any data or figures that support your entry, for example increased footfall, happiness surveys, event attendance and/or observed changes in behaviour. The community garden hosted 1,500 guests for nine weeks of workshops and events, covering sustainability, music, dance and movement, and mental health. To elevate women’s voices within sustainability, the events were programmed by a group of five young female creatives: Tina Wetshi, Ramzia Jawara, Eleanor Grace Hann, Ananya Parwar and Andrea Siso.
Dominvs Group worked with Culture Mile and creative agency Play Nice to create ‘Gaia’s Garden, which also formed part of the Lord Mayor’s Culture and Commerce Taskforce’s ‘Enhancing the City’ initiative, which sought to fill repurposed commercial spaces across the City with carefully curated creative activity to animate the area and drive footfall. Dominvs Group also partnered with urban transformation charity Urban Growth to design the Garden, using an innovative, circular approach to materials use. This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed for people in cities and suburbs with limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden. The classic book about ecological gardening–whatever size your garden–with over 250,000 copies sold! Primarily intended as a chillplace to hang outand relax, the garden also exists to teach visitors allaboutenvironmental causesthrough workshops, installations and performances. More than200 young Londonerswere involved in not just the building and gardening but also the curatingofGaia's live events programme. Photo: Francis Augusto Well, a new oneis opening this week right in the middle of thecity. Throughout the summerGaia's Garden, located by Holborn Viaduct, is going tohost daily cultural, arts and sustainability workshops for the local community. Photo: Francis Augusto
Gaia’s Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement.”–Paul Stamets We are experiencing a watershed moment, not only in terms of the reclaiming of public space for community engagement, but in the recognition that collective change must be built from collective engagement.
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