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rolyculture, rermaculture, intensive gardening, genetics and a little history on food politics and land use.
• Gaia’s Garden — A Guide To Home — ScalePermacuIture/Toby Hemenwav, is an inspiring, easy to grasp translation of Permaculture. the agricultural and gardening school of thought developed hy the Australian Bill Mollison.
While Mollison’s books are classic, I prefer Hemenway’s interpretations and information as it applies to our northern temperate climate, whereas Mollison’s examples are the features and species of his native tropical region. In depth information on following nature’s designs and systems to create multi-use gardens and landscapes.
• Perelandra Garden Workbook I & II: Co-Creative Energy processes for Gardening, Agriculture and Life/ Machaelle Small-Wright.
If you’ve ever heard about the extraordinary garden in Findhorn, Scotland, where the gardeners communicated with nature and created a mini-paradise on a sandy plot,'well, there’s a woman in nearby Jeffersonton who took the concept of co-operating with nature ever) further.
She’s written hooks on her experiences and offers information on how you, too, can communicate with the source of all gardens. Check it out. Vegetable gardening
Let’s start with the sipiple:
• Rodale’s Successful Organic Garden Series: Vegetables, offers advice on garden planning, soil preparation and plant cultivation. Full color photos accompany the plant profiles, which include a range of common and not common vegetables. Good, basic information for quick reference and to learn without becoming overloaded with information.
• A more complex text, Straight Ahead Organic/ Shepherd Ogden, gives quite thorough information on siting, soils, tools, cover crops and seed, as well as cultivation and plant profiles. Written by the founder of Cook’s Garden seed company, this book is written by someone with years of market garden experience. Practical, in-depth information on the fundamentals of good gardening.
• For delightful gardenwriting genre reading, Living Seasonally, The Kitchen Garden and Table pt North
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