Thank you for posting this! A very informative and insightful look into permaculture, or a revised look and what permaculture can do for renters. I really enjoyed listening to the passion and eloquence in how Scott McGuire talked about sustainable gardens.

Unfortunately, it takes more than the average backyard to feed just one human family, as demonstrated above.

He can grow salad. He hasn't even had his first pathogen (aww!). But basically, he is barely feeding himself (unless he's just eating salad) so this whole thing he is talking about is a sham.

And even if food becomes dirt cheap again and we all grow our own food, there will still be people in the world who are starving, and some of those "starving" will be in the US. And even with intensive gardening, starving will still surrounds us.

Once he grows grains, I suspect he will come to the conclusion that an agrarian society is a little backward. He is not growing enough barley to feed his family for three days, but is growing so much clary sage to last 4 years.

Capitalism is OK, along with frugality, but like politics, too much one way is a bad thing. And I am a GARDENER and have been for many years so I know what it takes to grow your own food. It's fun and delicious, but in reality, I still shop at Trader Joes's.

Scott McGuire exposes the fragile food systems we depend on and offers viable solutions to nutrition and occupation of our space and time in the future, the now and the rest of our ecological and economical lifetime.

his gardening advice is simple and sound, and might i add, it's fun..and delicious. anyone can begin with little expense and reap so much produce and health, just by turning a wasted yard into a place of awe and wonder, a teaching tool by example.

a peaceful, joyful alternative to buying pesticide laden fruits and vegetables.