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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production And Self-Reliance In Uncertain Times (2010)

by Carol Deppe(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

160358031X (ISBN13: 9781603580311)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing Company

review 1: This book will be of great interest, particularly to other Northwest gardeners. Deppe is specific and knowledgable. Some of her concerns do not intersect with my own (the details of her diet, for example), but those topics that do intersect (raising ducks, growing potatoes & squash) are extremely helpful. It is like having a mentor who takes the time to provide the details of each piece of advice and who explains exactly what she does and how she does it. She is thoughtful, methodical, and clear. That said, this book provides less of an overview than I had hoped and I found myself bogging down a bit midway through. I do have a page of notes that I intend to turn to with a variety of her recommendations for tools and planting suggestions. My favorite quote so far (which I h... moreave added to the book quotes section), which I find wonderfully funny and all too true in gardening and in life in general: “Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.”
review 2: Deppe gives us a blueprint for gardening to become self-sufficient in difficult times. She focuses on potatoes, corn, squash, beans, and eggs, and provides scholarly information on best varieties. She emphasizes why she chooses certain varieties, and why each of us in our own climactic region should investigate the same. This book is so dense with information I'm going to have to return my library copy and buy my own. It's one I know I'll be referring to again and again in the future. less

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