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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Steve Solomon
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Description for Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Paperback. Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead. Series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more ... Read more
The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Gabriola Island, United States
ISBN
9780865715530
SKU
V9780865715530
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-2
About Steve Solomon
Steve Solomon is a well-known west coast gardening guru, and author of five previous books. The founder of Territorial Seed Company, he has taught Master Gardener and Urban Farm classes at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His book, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades has appeared in five editions.
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