MY BALCONY IN PERMACULTURE

All the great principles of permaculture concentrated on 10 m2How to bring nature into your home when you live in the city? Can we create small productive systems that respect nature in an urban environment? This is the successful bet of Hervé Chabert, who demonstrates that you can set up a real mini-forest on your balcony! Enough to satisfy both your desire to garden and produce a small part of your food. The activity is fun, easy to practice and brings many satisfactions: adopting a more ecological lifestyle, eating healthy products, beautifying your daily life... Hervé Chabert shares his unique experience and teaches us in this book how to transform an environment that is a priori hostile to crops (absence of soil, presence of wind, etc.) by drawing inspiration from nature to make it productive and full of life. He organized his balcony by taking into account all the elements involved in the ecosystem that we are trying to recreate: water management, light, heat, etc. All the major principles of permaculture are present, concentrated on 10 m2, demonstrating that it is the organization of the environment and taking into account the different interactions that take place there that count. Getting started, having fun, trusting yourself and daring to follow your intuitions: these are his main pieces of advice, accompanied of course by all the lessons learned from his own experience to choose your substrates and containers, sow or repot correctly, choose the best locations and the best exposure, create micro-climates, optimize volumes, maintain your plantations, manage absences... The city of tomorrow will be greener...