Perennial Publishing Audiobooks

Permaculture Gardening Made Easy: a practical grounding in self-sustaining plots

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.7/5 average

88 listener ratings

About Perennial Publishing

Perennial Publishing is the name attached to Permaculture Gardening Made Easy, and the choice of name is not accidental. Perennials are the plants that come back without being asked, the backbone of any garden designed to feed itself, and permaculture is the discipline of building a plot that works with that habit rather than against it.

The book takes the practical route into the subject instead of the philosophical one. Rather than opening with theory about closed systems, it opens with soil, siting, water and the sequence of jobs that turn a patch of ground into something productive. It speaks to the person standing in an unpromising back garden wondering where on earth to begin.

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Just under five hours makes this a weekend companion rather than a reference tome, and Warren Sandwell reads it in the unfussy, instructional register the material wants: clear on the steps, never lecturing.

Listener scores are high and drawn from a healthy body of reviews, which for a practical gardening guide usually means the advice survived contact with real gardens. Listen through once for the shape of the method, then return to the middle chapters when you are actually digging. The audiobook is below.