I've had lots of hardware and software woes this summer and autumn, and am
still catching up on the backlog of e-mails. I came across this when I was
working on the backlog today, and I want to thank kathryn for the
compliment. I'm afraid I'm not organized enough to write a book, but I'd
love to read Sandra's if she ever writes one.
The books that inspired me to do my no-dig, mimic nature kind of gardening
were Robert Hart's "Forest Gardening", Bill Mollison's "Introduction to
Permaculture", and Rosemary Morrow's "Earth user's Guide to Permaculture".
More recently I have discovered Sally Jean Cunningham's "Great Garden
Companions", which is good except that I wish she would take a stronger
stand against digging and tilling.
Carol
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Subject: Re: [ecopath] Garden Books
>Frank wrote:
>>Anybody have any suggestions on books that details eco-friendly
> >gardening that are " keepers"?
>
I seem to throw more and more of them out as time goes on. Like Jeff
I find I have some 60s self-sufficiency and survival stuff but much
of it is very dated. I suppose its partly that I've been on this
patch of ground a long time now and I pretty much know what I should
be doing even if I don't get around to it. The technology improves
all the time - even the science behind the low tech technology is
better than it was when I bought my first self sufficiency book with
my pocket money in 1957 (it was John Seymour's "The Fat of the Land"
and I still find it inspiring even though I've known Seymour
personally for the last 20 odd years and now know that like the rest
of us he was talking through you know what). Trouble is every place
on the surface of Mother Earth is different from every other place
and its only by living with it that you find out what you need to do.
Some are better at the theory than others - I suspect that Sandra or
Carol could both write the book we are all waiting for. They learn
the theory and do the practise
kathryn
