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  • From: sora AT coldreams.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Garden Gurus
  • Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:40:35 -0800 (PST)

>
> 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.



  • [Market-farming] Garden Gurus, sora, 12/01/2004

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