Mini-Farming

The founders of the Ecology Action food-growing program first outlined their revolutionary Biointensive gardening methods in the best-selling How to Grow More Vegetables, published in 1974. With over 350,000 copies in print and 7 translations, the book continues to transform the face of food-growing throughout the world - with amazing results!

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden presents the basic principles of this gardening classic in concise, easy-to-understand terms accessible to even a beginning backyard gardener. You'll learn to view your garden as its own mini-ecosystem and to foster the soil's life-giving cycles of nourishment and replenishment. By implementing these Biointensive techniques and working in concert with these natural cycles, you'll soon produce yields up to four times greater than those obtainable with conventional methods, in a fraction of the growing area. And more importantly, you'll be preserving and enriching for future generations one of our most precious resources: the soil itself. Sustainable gardening is an essential environmental for the new millennium, and this book helps you contribute to that solution - in your own backyard! - from the back cover

If you want to grow more vegetables - and flowers - in less space, All New Square Foot Gardening is for you. Author Mel Bartholomew takes you through his proven Square Foot Gardening method adopted by satisfied gardeners for more than twenty-five years. Now in All New Square Foot Gardening, Mel unveils ten new improvements that save you more time and money - all with a lot less work. And with All New Square Foot Gardening, you no longer have to worry about weeds and fertilizers! Gardeners everywhere enthusiastically endorse Mel Bartholomew's revolutionary Square Foot Gardening method. - from the back cover

Solar Gardening shows how to increase the effects of the sun during the coldest months of the year and how to protect tender plants from the intensity of the scorching sun during the hottest months through the use of solar "mini-greenhouses." The book includes instructions for building a variety of solar appliances plus descriptions of more than 90 different crops, with charts showing when to plant and harvest each. The result is a year-round harvest even from a small garden. - from the back cover

Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm describes the creation of a sustainable food system through a detailed case study of the successful year-round organic market garden at Pennsylvania's Three Sisters Farm. Both visionary and practical, this fully illustrated book overflows with a wealth of information on the application of permaculture principles -- Back cover.