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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Learning curve
  • Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:40:03 -0700


See Amazon.com reviews on the book at
http://www.amazon.com/Resilient-Gardener-Production-Self-Reliance-Uncertain/dp/160358031X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290918097&sr=1-1

Interview with Carol Deppe at
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-18-food-deppe-resilent-garden-/

In the Northeast, see any (or all) of Eliot Coleman's books from Maine. Just
plug in Eliot Coleman at http://www.bookfinder.com/ .


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/27/2010 at 9:14 PM Barbara Money wrote:

>Who was it here that recommended Carol Deppe's book on Resilient
>gardening? Thanks, whoever you are... I bought the book and am finding
>it a wealth of good information, but unfortunately it doesn't apply to
>southern New England. Yet, she gives one the tools to extrapolate her
>methods/experiments to other regions, I think. What works for her in
>Oregon may not work everywhere (I cannot overwinter anything here, as
>she does!), but at least I can use her studies of her own gardens' needs
>to work out a way to study my own, given my climate and rainfall
>patterns here.
>
>Deppe does reference Steve Solomon, who is not well received on this
>list, for whatever reason; I'm almost inclined to read his stuff to see
>what the problem is. (Though I take it he is also from the Northwest,
>and wouldn't have information pertinent to my area.) But the other site
>that was referenced her the other day, about using "dust mulch"; yeah,
>that's pretty strange and doesn't make a lot of sense.
>
>Can anyone recommend a good gardening reference(s) similar to Deppe,
>that would apply more to the Northeast? Jeavons was mentioned, but
>someone said he advocates a lot of inputs...?
>
>Barbara M
>Foster, RI
>
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