Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture - 2nd Edition

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Gaia’s Garden is a space for the community, by the community,' said Nate Agbetu, co-founder of Play Nice.'To educate us all about sustainable practices, while we dance, learn and engage with one another. It’s a project that lives to level up Londoners and supports Culture Mile’s plan for a more inclusive, innovative and sustainable future for the Square Mile.' Contributions should be appropriate for a global audience. Please avoid using profanity or attempts to approximate profanity with creative spelling, in any language. Comments and media that include 'hate speech', discriminatory remarks, threats, sexually explicit remarks, violence, and the promotion of illegal activity are not permitted. Gaia’s Garden is an ecological community in Auroville. Its tropical exotic plants spread over 2.67 acres. The little temple, the heart of garden, is surrounded by 9 ponds and plumeria. The banyan tree watches silently over the meditation garden. Statutes of gods secret themselves among the various lives. Opening your eyes to bird songs, following fireflies in the garden pavilion, melting thousands of stars to your heart on the rooftop terrace, you'll realize that you're in the arms of Mother Earth Gaia.

Gaia's Gardenis a collaboration between Culture Mile, Play Nice, property developers Dominvs Group, and a little-known outfitcalled'the Barbican'. Conceptualised by five young, female creatives from different disciplines, the idea is to present sustainability through an inclusive, feminist lens. 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 has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing a simple message: working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. 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

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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 And the wonderful thing about this is, that not only do we help with climate change, but we also create a sanctuary for wildlife. In a time when our insect populations in the UK have declined by over 60% in the last 20 years, this is vital for pollination, for the birds and bats, for the survival of the fragile web that sustains life on earth. The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.The old vision and old paradigm of perceiving our world as unrelated separate parts is causing imbalance within us and our planet. Within this chaos, a new vision is emerging where the consciousness of humanity can interact with nature. A vision where we perceive our world as a web of relationships and interconnected systems that nurture and sustain each other. Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things):

At the guest house, every unit comes with a desk. All units are equipped with a kettle and a private bathroom with a bidet, while selected rooms are fitted with a fully equipped kitchen equipped with a toaster. At the guest house, the units are fitted with bed linen and towels. Returning to the pervasive symbolism of the day, it seems fitting that Climate in Colour’s first in-person event should have taken place in the Garden. Discussions about online activism and direct action in the form of demonstrations often focus on their impact on the external world. Platforms such as Climate in Colour are lauded for their capacity to instantaneously reach an audience at scale – yet, what is often lost in these discussions is that this mass outreach is atomised and individualistic. In an instant, a person can be plugged into a dizzying array of discussions, podcasts, reading lists, infographics, and online panels, but a post shared to a story or a comment left under a post is often the extent of communal engagement that social media platforms provide. Social media offers a platform for mass engagement, but for the individual that engagement is restricted by design to be isolated. Highlighting why community spaces are so important, the Garden provided a space wherein that individualistic engagement could be transformed into a collective engagement, a communal exchanging of reflections, perspectives, and connections, free from the expectation of turning a profit or maximising online engagement metrics. Sidebars: lanto Evans’s Polyculture, Jajarkot’s Advanced Polyculture, Growing the Three Sisters Guild Nothing quite like a community space, is there? Everyone pitching in. Olderpeople mingling with the young. People walking around with spades. It's like a glimpse into a Utopian future where we all live on communes and there's no money or internet.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.”