Paradise Manifesto: Gardening, Permaculture & Spirituality

In thirty-six propositions, Laurent Huguelit invites us to consider the garden as a protected space in which integrity, respect, and listening are cultivated in the same way as good vegetables, juicy fruits, and a world of biodiversity.

“Humanity will take root in the vegetable patch, the orchard, the ornamental garden, the balconies, the parks, the green spaces full of flowers. It will find there the solutions to most of its economic, social, dietary, and existential problems. Garden activists, that’s what the world needs.”

Throughout these pages and propositions, the author invites us to practice a holistic approach where gardening and spirituality come together with grace, hands in the earth and head in the stars. All of the themes dear to permaculture are explored in this book: design, knowing the soil, cultural gestures, resilience… and the joy of living in paradise, on planet Earth.