Michael Hoag - The Beginnners Landscape Transformation Manual

1. Introduction, Page 6

1. The Vision: A Beautiful, Easy, Abundant Landscape that Helps to Build a

1. Lets Learn by Doing Stuff, 13

1. About the Adventures in this Book, 17

1. Transform Your Landscape, Transform Your Life, Transform the World! 25

1. My Favorite First Adventure: The Classic Herb Spiral (Improved!) 28

1. Adventure 2: The Sheet-Mulching Adventure! 36

1. How to Transform Landscapes: The Transformation Compass, 46

1. Compass Action 1: Transform By Growing Connections! 49

1. How a Landscape Transforms, 50

1. Adventure 3: Transforming the Hard Work Garden, 62

1. A Garden Transformation Adventure Checklist, 99

1. Transformative Action 2: Developing the Transformation Mindset, 100

1. Adventure 4: Sitting in a Garden, 103

1. Transformative Action 3: Consider the World and Our Connection With It. 105

1. Transform Your Life/Transform the World, 115

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   Action 4: The Skill of Getting Stuff Done with Transformative

1. Adventure 5: Growing a Weed Garden, 124

1. Adventure 6: A Beginners Scatter-Sown Polyculture, 126

1. Adventure 7: Growing a Guild, 129

1. Adventure 8: The Might Hedgerow, and/or Tapestry Hedge, 160

1. The Do-Nothing Adventure 9: Getting out of Natures Way, 168

1. Adventure 10: The Beautiful Edible Meadow Guild, 172

1. Adventure 11: A Beautiful, Walkable Lawn Polyculture, 177

1. Transformative Action 5: Seek Happiness Skillfully, 180

1. Adventure 12: Attracting Natural Beauty to the Landscape, 181

1. Adventure 13: The Home Garden Veggie Circles Plan, 187

1. The Long-Tern Adventure: Add Up Guilds to Make a Forest Garden or Home

1. Holistic Natural. Garden Management: How to Garden without Plastics,

1. Weeding with Holistic Natural Management: Chop and Drop Mulching 218

1. The 4 natural No-Till Garden Management Systems, 220

1. Some Key Plants for Transforming Landscapes, 226

Transformative Action 6: Seek Transcendence, 258 Appendix 1. What to Buy and What to Plant from Seed? 260 Appendix 2. Shady Characters, Plants for Shade. 263 Appendix 3. How a Guild Develops in Time, 264 Appendix 4: Skills for the Advanced Holistic Natural Gardener. 266 This book is based on the material presented in Beauty in Abundance, by Michael Hoag Praise for Beauty in Abundance: Mike Hoags book is so inspiring; after 50 years of growing food, I am laying the foundation for growing a complex, beautiful garden that meets needs for beauty, friendship, rest, restoring the earth as well as abundant food to share.

Beauty and harmony are food and a thoughtfully designed garden can nourish us body and soul. Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands that Feed Us. Mikes gift to the world, Beauty in Abundance, has deep insights and is spoken in very clear language, and beautifully illustrated. For those who know about Permaculture, he touches on many of the current debates on fine-tuning what we need to survive and how we can respect the importance of all living beings. For new arrivals, he will take you to devotee status. Please . Please .

Graham Bell , The Permaculture Way Mike Hoag has written a long-awaited down-to-earth treatise on the topic of Permaculture plant guilds from a perspective that is both refreshing and easily understandable by both novice and professional alike. His presentation of plant guild examples brings a greater level of clarity to a topic of interest to all who are trying to enable a better planet for not just themselves and their descendants, but for all other residents of the natural world Bryce Ruddock, Integrated Forest Gardening A true polymath, Mike Hoag is the most complete Permaculturist I have ever known (or heard of) and easily one of the best permies of all time. Humble, hilarious, and thoroughly holistic, this is the most significant Permaculture book since the Permaculture Designers Manual. E. James Spielmaker, Hugelsculptures, HOBO, and Flintopia Mike Hoags permaculture masterpiece is humanitys rosetta stone between nature and society. I read it, and now I will lay it down in loamy earth, my hands performing its deeds, and I will be the happier for it.

Noah Madlin, the Permaculture Librarian, a student of permaculture for more than 30 years An absolute wonderful resource full of practical information on how to create that beautiful yet productive garden. Mothin Ali, My Family Garden YouTube channel.