{"product_id":"miraculous-abundance-isbn-9781603586429","title":"Miraculous Abundance","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Farmers like Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer [are] beacons of light. Their work allows the rest of the world to see that there is another life, there is another way.”—Eliot Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat began as a simple dream has turned into one of the world’s most radical, innovative experiments in small-scale farming—using the Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in a historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been traveling the globe teaching students about ecology and indigenous cultures. Perrine had been an international lawyer in Japan. Their farm Bec Hellouin has since become an internationally celebrated model of innovation in ecological agriculture. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the eloquent tale of the couple’s quest to build an agricultural model that can carry us into a post-carbon future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors dive deeper into the various farming methods across the globe that contributed towards the creation of the Bec Hellouin model, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePermaculture and soil health principles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKorean natural farming methods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManaging a four-season farm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreating a productive agroecosystem that is resilient and durable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing no-dig methods for soil fertility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModelling an agrarian system that supports its community in totality; from craft, restaurants and shared work spaces to jobs, agritourism, energy and ecological biodiversity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for aspiring and experienced farmers, gardeners, and homesteaders, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a love letter to a future where ecological farming is at the centre of every community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book, more about philosophy than a how-to, describes how two inexperienced beginners succeeded in creating a gorgeous, productive, self-sustaining farm.”—Marion Nestle\u003c\/b\u003e\"This book, more about philosophy than a how-to, describes how two inexperienced beginners succeeded in creating a gorgeous, productive, self-sustaining farm on 1000 square meters of land in Normandy—La Ferme du Bec Hellouin….If the color photographs are any indication, the results are magnificent….The mandala garden alone made me want to get on the next plane just to see how it works in controlling weeds. The moral: you could do this at home.\"—\u003cb\u003eMarion Nestle, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFood Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Charles Hervé-Gruyer tells the starry-eyed, dirty-nailed story of how he and his wife, Perrine, transformed a 'dilapidated cottage' and 'a mediocre field' into an idyllic, prolific 37-acre farm and educational center in Normandy over the course of eight years. La Ferme du Bec Hellouin, one of the few French farms employing permaculture and intensive, nonmechanized agriculture, has attracted the attention of aspiring microfarmers and mainstream agronomists. Grounded in permaculture and inspired by intuition and beauty, Charles modestly acknowledges that their techniques are not original. They draw on a multitude of sources from indigenous Asian and South American cultures to 19th-century Parisian market gardeners and modern California biointensive gardening, and their teachers include English agrarian-self-sufficiency author John Seymour, Maine year-round farming expert Elliot Coleman, Quebec market gardener Jean-Martin Fortier, and a number of French organic-farming pioneers. Charles extrapolates from his own experience and environmental concerns to propose a worldwide agricultural transformation into “agrarian solidarity systems,” quasi-land trusts managed and cultivated by multiple individual farmers and the cottage industries that develop from them.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“’Dare to imagine the new,’ Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer tell us. ‘Take the best of the many traditions of humanity, and the best of modernity, to shape a world that has never existed.’ These authors synthesize the best from multiple indigenous cultures with successful patterns of modern small-scale farming to create a soaring example and vision of a future—one in which human beings are an essential and positive force helping to preserve the biosphere, and even a quarter acre can be a full-fledged and productive farm yielding amazing agricultural bounty.”—\u003cb\u003eCarol Deppe, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Tao of Vegetable Gardening \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Resilient Gardener\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e is a true marvel! Like Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer's amazing farm, their book blends science and anthropology, but it also mixes memoir and travelogue to create a beautiful whole that will inspire the next generation of farmers.”—\u003cb\u003eNovella Carpenter, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFarm City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e; coauthor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Essential Urban Farmer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book will be a source of inspiration and guidance for those striving toward an agriculture that is not merely sustainable but also regenerative and rewarding. Charles and Perrine are trailblazers, courageous visionaries who have drawn inspiration from sources as varied as 19th century Parisian market gardeners and Amazonian tribes people. As their method is a fusion, so too is the book; practical, historical, and philosophical in tone, it shows us how practicing agriculture as part of the ecosystem is not only economically viable but also spiritually fulfilling. We need people like the Hervé-Gruyers to show us what is possible in reality rather than just theory, and in sharing their journey, they tell an important story for the future of humankind.”—\u003cb\u003eCaroline Aitken, permaculture teacher and consultant at Patrick Whitefield Associates; coauthor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFood from Your Forest Garden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At their farm in Normandy, France, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer have created an inspiring example of how it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e possible to intensively farm a small plot of land and produce an abundance of food while at the same time enriching the fertility of the soil and the health of the people, plants, and animals that live there. Their work demonstrates how people and nature can again co-exist for mutual benefit—and their self-sufficient way of living and farming is certainly the future of agriculture.”—\u003cb\u003eLarry Korn, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne-Straw Revolutionary;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e editor of Masanobu Fukuoka’s \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe One-Straw Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSowing Seeds in the Desert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance \u003c\/i\u003eis a dynamic combination of permaculture, biointensive, four season, natural farming, and Amazonian farming approaches with exciting practical goals to pattern after. The book is about healing ourselves and the Earth in a post-carbon era. Worth reading for inner growth and outer growing of food, compost materials, income, and soil!”—\u003cb\u003eJohn Jeavons, author; biologically intensive farming specialist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miraculous Abundance \u003c\/i\u003eis absolutely the right book for right now. I don't know when I have been more encouraged about the future. The authors tell how, after some ten years of upward—not always successful—experimentation, going directly against the grain of modern industrial farming, they have advanced the renaissance of small-scale agriculture to near biological perfection. They are combining biointensive farming and permaculture to make a viable, diversified microfarm on test plots that are little more than two acres with the possibility of reducing that size down to as small as one fourth acre. They do their farming almost entirely by hand and with the utmost refinements and advances in agronomic soil enrichment. They use hardly any fossil-fuel energy at all, calling what they do the ‘agriculture of the sun.’ Along the way they provide solid evidence from sources all over the world to back up the conclusions they are drawing from their work, including achieving more healthful food, food security for the coming population increases, more jobs, effective sequestration of CO2, and indeed a whole new world order that would insure better social stability out of the chaos we presently face.”—\u003cb\u003eGene Logsdon, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Sanctuary of Trees\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Contrary Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this lovely, hopeful book, an unlikely couple creates an astonishingly productive edible landscape in Normandy, weaving together the insights, materials, and techniques of dozens of acknowledged predecessors. \u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e is a modestly written song of defiance, a demonstration that the world can readily feed its projected 9 billion with an agriculture that restores the biosphere.”—\u003cb\u003eJoan Gussow, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrowing, Older\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Organic Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e offers one of the most readable, visceral blueprints for earth-healing abundance I've ever seen. Absolutely captivating. Only true-blue practitioners, hands in the soil, can offer the kind of eclectic synthesis—combining the best of all the earth-healing traditions and technologies—discovered on this permaculture microfarm. A fantastic book with iconic potential. I couldn't put it down.”—\u003cb\u003eJoel Salatin, owner , Polyface Farm; author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFields of Farmers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Miraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a pioneering permaculture market garden in France. Small, highly diverse, highly productive microfarms are a critical part of climate-change mitigation; their 'agroecological intensification’ means we can grow more on less land and reduce deforestation at the same time. Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer's book covers more than the logistics of their operation—it delves into their philosophy and historical roots in French market garden history. \u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful case study of an intensive, commercial permaculture production system.\"—\u003cb\u003eEric Toensmeier, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Carbon Farming Solution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Can farming a tiny quarter-acre piece of land be sustainable, economic, and fulfilling? In \u003ci\u003eMiraculous Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer tackle that very questions and answer it positively in the affirmative. This fascinating book describes the evolution of their farm from its beginnings in 2004, when the authors knew little, over the next ten years as they discovered biointensive agriculture, permaculture, forest gardens, and more. The authors are passionate about small, human-scale farming and the role it can play in the future, and they envisage a future with numerous small farms, enabling many more people to live on the land and lessening the effects of climate change. Their farm in France now attracts farmers, chefs, and scientists and also hosts a school to teach how a diverse edible landscape can be created to both earn a living and make a beautiful space and a fulfilling life.\"—\u003cb\u003eMartin Crawford, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrees for Gardens, Orchards and Permaculture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerrine Hervé-Gruyer\u003c\/b\u003e has worked as an international lawyer and head of the legal department of a major company in Asia, and has volunteered with the High Commissioner for Refugees. When she turned thirty, Perrine radically changed lanes, and began taking courses in psychotherapy, specifically in relaxation therapy, publishing a book titled \u003ci\u003eLa Relaxation en Famille\u003c\/i\u003e. With her husband, Charles, she created Le Ferme du Bec Hellouin. Perrine also serves as a Green Party representative with the Regional Parliament of Haute-Normandie, where she oversees a committee focusing on agriculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Hervé-Gruyer\u003c\/b\u003e has been passionate about the relationship between humans and nature since childhood. He circumnavigated the globe for 22 years while operating a floating school focusing on ecology and indigenous cultures, the subject of many of his books and documentaries. Charles then directed his research to exploring our inner world, studying psychology, relaxation therapy, massage, and yoga instruction. Anxious to explore the most environmentally friendly farming practices, Charles created Le Ferme du Bec Hellouin with his wife, Perrine, in 2003. The couple then began an experiment merging various small-scale, intensive, organic, and natural agricultural techniques that would pique the interest of European agencies planning food-security strategy and raise awareness about permaculture in France. The farm also operates a permaculture school.","brand":"Chelsea Green","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233393783013,"sku":"NP9781603586429","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781603586429.jpg?v=1767732771","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/miraculous-abundance-isbn-9781603586429","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}