Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
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- ISBN13: 9780865715530
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-capability. In hard times, the family tree can be momentously helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring small cash outlay or watering.
Currently well loved intensive vegetable farming 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 fee of oil. 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. Farming When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input farming methods to produce healthy food.
Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-language world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family tree 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 waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies — effective an average of two hours a day during the growing season.
Steve Solomon is a well-known west coast gardener and leader of five previous books, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades which has appeared in five editions.
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Farming When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Planet News Wiser Living Series)Excellent information. Simple to read. Glad I bought this book
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book is full of excellent farming information. But its hard to use it. The binding came apart 3 days after I got the book
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This very informative book is simple to read. I can’t wait to place Mr. Solomon’s years of experience to practice!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I had very high hopes for this book. My family tree has ongoing the path to self capability and we were all looking forwards to reading the wonderful information touted by some of the reviewers on Amazon. But, the leader is condescending and pompous. He seems more interested in showing others how smart he is than writing a meaningful book. He constantly treats the reader like he/she is an idiot, not capable of intelligent, independent thought. Perhaps he has some excellent information. I don’t know. Every time I pick the book up to read, he starts a paragraph with a condescending remark and I place it away. Horrible, horrible book. Run. There are much better books out there. If there were a zero star option, I would have chosen it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Very, very vital and informative book! This is no sissy farming book! I bought it for my spouse, and he likes it! Perfect for anyone wanting to be as self-sufficient as possible.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5