The world's leading resource on biointensive, sustainable, high-yield organic gardening is thoroughly updated throughout, with new sections on using 12 percent less water and increasing compost power.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Alice Waters
Preface: Ecology Action and the Common Ground Project by The
Ecology Action Staff
Introduction: Building Soil, Building the Future
1: Deep Soil Creation and Maintenance
2: Sustainability
3: The Use of Compost and Soil Fertility 2 + 1 [Low Input]
4: Fertilization
5: Open-Pollinated Seeds, Seed Propagation, Close Spacing, and Seed
Saving
6: Companion Planting
7: An Interrelated Food-Raising System: Creating and Caring for A
Balanced Natural Ecosystem With Insect Life 8: Master Charts and
Planning
9: Sample Garden Plans
Appendix 1: Tools
Appendix 2: The Efficacy of the Grow Biointensive Method in
Increasing Sustainable Yields and Building Soils Appendix 3:
Ecology Action Publications
Appendix 4: Organizations
Appendix 5: Memberships and Ordering
Index
About the Author
JOHN JEAVONS is the director of Ecology Action, an environmental research and education organization that has been working to revolutionize small-scale food production through biointensive growing around the world since 1972. To learn more, visit growbiointensive.org.
Praise for How to Grow More Vegetables:
"Possibly the most detailed explanation of the intensive gardening
method available."
—New York Times
"John's methods are nothing short of miraculous."
—Alice Waters, author, Slow Food crusader, and founder of Chez
Panisse
"There are two kinds of vegetable gardeners--those who garden in
beds of some kind and for whom this is the ultimate foundation
book, a must-read, and an essential reference. Then there are those
who don't garden in beds, for whom it's still a must-read and an
essential reference. The full title...actually understates the
contents. The book is about how to grow pretty nearly all your food
and your garden's fertilizer on a modest amount of land."
—Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and
Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
"A masterpiece."
—Alan Chadwick, master horticulturist
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