Today I ’m announcing a novel regular feature : The Survival Gardener Library !
Every Friday I ’ll feature a rule book of the hebdomad worth adding to your library . We ’ll focus on gardening , homesteading , food forests , permaculture and wild plant foraging and maybe even drop in the occasional book from out there in left field .
I ’ve been a book collector since I was a child and those books shaped the man I am today . From theAnimals Without BackbonestoThe Foundation TrilogytoFlorida GardeningtoThe Lord of the Rings , books have uplift and inspired me over the long time .
And that does n’t even depend the record book that has impacted me the most : The Holy Bible . If you do n’t have that account book yet , go get one .
This calendar week we ’ll start up the series with the must - have bookScorpions of Medical Importance :
Oh wait , no , that ’s not it . I ’m dark .
This week we sport Steve Solomon ’s classic :
Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
I consider Steve Solomon my mentor .
We finally become the chance to meet via Skype a couple of months ago and he is brainy in person as well . The humanity ’s thinker is a machine – yet his books are easy to read , approachable , and almost always practical .
Steve has garden organically for years in a multifariousness of climates . He ’s farmed , range a seeded player company and written multiple books . I own them all , with the exclusion ofGrowing Vegetables West of the cascade – though you may depend your broadfork I ’d buy that one too if I survive within a thousand miles of the realm .
horticulture When it Countsteaches you to raise food for thought without split up the banking concern or your back . It will open up your eyes to the time value of wide spacing , sharp tools and traditional method .
Reading Steve is like learning from a wise grandpa who has been there , done that , and develop the potatoes .
If you do n’t own this Good Book and you are a nurseryman , you should .
Go get a copy . learn it . memorize from Steve – he knows his hooey .
You canlearn more about Steve Solomon on his website .
- Original featured photo by my friend Jean .
