Will Bonsall's essential guide to radical, self-reliant gardening : innovative techniques for growing vegetables, grains, and perennial food crops with minimal fossil fuel and animal inputs
Title:
Will Bonsall's essential guide to radical, self-reliant gardening : innovative techniques for growing vegetables, grains, and perennial food crops with minimal fossil fuel and animal inputs
Author:
Bonsall, Will, 1949- author.
ISBN:
9781603584425
9781603584432
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
385 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Composting as if it mattered -- Green manures -- Mulch -- Minerals: whence and whither? -- Grassland improvement and management -- Sexual propagation: why and how -- Asexual propagation -- The veggies -- Grains -- Growing pulses -- Growing oilseeds -- Growing permacrops -- Rocks, water, and land -- Smaller footprints -- Pests and diseases -- Milling, baking, and sprouting -- Freezing, fermenting, and more.
Abstract:
In Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don't always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable agriculture. In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience.
