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Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical Self-reliant Gard

Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs

Af: Will Bonsall
Kategori: Engelsk non fiction div.
Kategori nr.: 9290
Varenr.: 3353519
| Stregkode: 9781603584425
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"If you wish to live well and eat well no matter what is going on in the rest of the world, this book is for you. . Will Bonsall will help you enjoy the good life under any and all conditions. "—Eliot Coleman, author of The New Organic Grower "Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries. " Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place. 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. For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture—not from a strictly moralistic or philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business sense: spend less instead of making more. What this means in practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts—even uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut (Apios). Inside Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening you'll also find:Milling, baking and sproutingFreezing and vermentationBest practices to handle plant disease and animal pestsCollecting and storing seedsAnd so much more! In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience. "My goal," he writes, "is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it might be a good beginning. "

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9781603584425
  • Vægt
    1094 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Will Bonsall
  • Forlag
    Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • ISBN
    9781603584425
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    400
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    PAPERBACK
  • Themakode
    VSZ
  • Kategori
    Engelsk non fiction div.
  • Kategori nr
    9290
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    254 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    206 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    59 mm