Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead. 
 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 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. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. 
 Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family 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-working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. 
 Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series, 5)

SOLOMON, Steve

Self-Help

New Society Publishers

Beyond organic -- a practical guide to nutrient-dense food 
 Vegetables, fruits and grains are a major source of vital nutrients, but centuries of intensive agriculture have depleted our soils to historic lows. As a result, the broccoli you consume today may have less than half the vitamins and minerals that the equivalent serving would have contained a hundred years ago. This is a matter of serious concern, since poor nutrition has been linked to myriad health problems including cancer, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. For optimum health we must increase the nutrient density of our foods to the levels enjoyed by previous generations. 
 To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality the essential minerals lacking in our soil must be replaced, but this re-mineralization calls for far more attention to detail than the simple addition of composted manure or NPK fertilizers. The Intelligent Gardener demystifies the process, while simultaneously debunking much of the false and misleading information perpetuated by both the conventional and organic agricultural movements. In doing so, it conclusively establishes the link between healthy soil, healthy food and healthy people. 
 This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable web-based spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow.

The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Here's the book with everything you need to know about growing vegetables in the mild, wet climate of the maritime Pacific Northwest. Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades explains the basic science behind making plants grow, so that you can understand the daily events in your garden and solve gardening problems as they occur.

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon's Complete Guide to Natural Gardening

Sasquatch Books

Water-Wise Vegetables shows how to grow a lush, productive vegetable garden with minimal watering. Solomon includes information on irrigation, mulching, site and seed selection, and explanations of how plants use water and how to prepare soil for effieient water usage. Whether you have five acres or a postage-stamp garden, the material presented here is guaranteed to reduce your water bill while increasing your harvest.

Water-Wise Vegetables: For the Maritime Northwest Gardener (Cascadia Gardening)

"Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" is an invaluable resource for any gardener looking to become more knowledgeable and grow better vegetables. The book features basic info on soils, composting, chemical-free fertilizing, efficient water usage, and planning, but it is also filled with up-to-date tips on seed sources and new growing and cultivation techniques. Featuring a Earth-friendly focus on organic gardening practices, the book helps readers acquire a foundation of master-gardening knowledge that they can use to organize and plan their own gardens however they want.

The complete guide to organic gardening west of the Cascades

Pacific Search Press

Dr. Isabelle A. Moser and Steve Solomon collaborated on How and When to Be Your Own Doctor.  When Solomon reached his late thirties, he began looking for healthy alternatives.  He met Moser and began the practice of a yearly fast to cleanse his body.  This book contains their combined knowledge on healing. Topics include How I Became a Hygienist, The Nature and Cause of Disease, Fasting, Colon Cleansing, Diet and Nutrition, Vitamins and Other Food Supplements and The Analysis of Disease States--Helping the Body Recover.

How and When to Be Your Own Doctor

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Moser, Dr. Isabelle A

Reference

IndyPublish

Organic Gardener's Composting

Organic Gardener's Composting  By Steve Solomon  This particular book gives me an audience problem. Simultaneously I have two quite different groups of composters in mind. What one set wants the other might find boring or even irritating.     The smaller group includes serious food gardeners like me. Vegetable gardeners have traditionally been acutely interested in composting, soil building, and maintaining soil organic matter. We are willing to consider anything that might help us grow a better garden and we enjoy agricultural science at a lay person's level.      The other larger audience, does not grow food at all, or if they do it is only a few tomato plants in a flower bed. A few are apartment dwellers who, at best, keep a few house plants. Yet even renters may want to live with greater environmental responsibility by avoiding unnecessary contributions of kitchen garbage to the sewage treatment system. Similarly, modern home owners want to stop sending yard wastes to landfills.      These days householders may be offered incentives (or threatened with penalties) by their municipalities to separate organic, compostable garbage from paper, from glass, from metal or from plastic. Individuals who pay for trash pickup by volume are finding that they can save considerable amounts of money by recycling their own organic wastes at home.  Includes sections on’  What Is Compost    Composting Basics    Nutrients in the Compost Pile    Practical Compost Making    Hot Composting   The Fertilizing Value of Compost    Evaluating Nitrogen Content    Methods and Variations    Building Your Own Bin    Sheet Composting    Mulch Gardening    Vermicomposting    Locating the Worms   Setting Up a Worm Box    Feeding the Worms    Fruit Flies    Maintenance    Garbage Can Composting    Composting for the Food Gardener    Microbes and Soil Fertility    Maintaining Soil Humus     Climate and the Nutritional Quality of Food     Soil Mineral Content by Climate Area     Fertilizing Gardens Organically     Making Superior Compost     Charging the Compost Pits

Indypublish.Com

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Vegetable gardening; Organic gardening; Compost; Organic fertilizers; Gardening / General; Gardening / Organic; Technology

Moser, Isabelle A.

Whenever I want to buy something it has become my habit first to ask myself if the desired object could possibly bring me as much pleasure as knowing that I don't have to get up and go to work the next morning. Usually I decide to save the money so I do not have to earn more. En extremis, I repeat the old Yankee marching chant like a mantra: Make do! Wear it out! When it is gone, do without! Bum, Bum! Bum bi Dum! Bum bi di Dum, Bum bi Dum!

Echo Library

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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series, 5)

The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon's Complete Guide to Natural Gardening

Water-Wise Vegetables: For the Maritime Northwest Gardener (Cascadia Gardening)

The complete guide to organic gardening west of the Cascades

How and When to Be Your Own Doctor

Organic Gardener's Composting

Organic Gardener's Composting

How and When to Be Your Own Doctor

Organic Gardener's Composting