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“Shows us how to garden like our ancestors gardened . . . with just four basic hand tools, and with little or no electricity or irrigation.” ―Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener
In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. This book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household wastewater, perhaps two hundred dollars’ worth of hand tools.
Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to the new circumstances we find ourselves in. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten.
Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, Gardening When It Counts is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency.
“Delightfully informative and abundantly rich with humor and grandfatherly wisdom. A must-read for anyone wanting a feast off the land of their own making.” ―Elaine Smitha, host of the “Evolving Ideas” cable talk show and author of If You Make the Rules, How Come You’re Not Boss?
From the Publisher
Publisher : New Society Publishers; 59538th edition (April 1, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 086571553X
ISBN-13 : 978-0865715530
Reading age : 16 years and up
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book provides the best basis of knowledge for starting a garden. They describe it as a good read and brilliant. Readers also say it’s great value for money and excellent for surviving upcoming inflation. Opinions are mixed on the yield, with some finding it useful and others saying it doesn’t fully deliver on the promise of the title.
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