[Market-farming] Garden Gurus

sora at coldreams.com sora at coldreams.com
Wed Dec 1 18:40:35 EST 2004


>
> All this talk about Ruth Stout is nostalgic for me. When I was young, back
> in the late 60's and early 70's, the back-to-the-land movement grabbed me.
> Ruth's "No Work Garden Book" was one of the first I bought. I just dug it
> out over the weekend while moving books. She's really the Mother of
> No-Till
> Farming if the truth be told and her ideas are as valid today as they were
> then.
>
> Bill Shoemaker
> Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
> Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>
> Nostalgic---yes indeed.  I also started gardening in the late 60's with
the revered books of Ruth Stout, Scott and Helen Nearing "Living the
Good Life", and Rodale's Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.  I still go
back to their ideas today.  Another main mentor for me was a delightful
woman in Coventry Connecticut named Adelma Simmons of Caprilands Herb
Farm.  She passed away recently in her 90's but her farm has a website
caprilands.com that carries some of the largest variety of herb seed in
the world.



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