A little dated but otherwise useful information without unnecessary fluff. It's definitely a brief primer to high yield backyard agriculture, but makes for a nice, quick reference.

A great intro to Jeavons other book How to Grow More Vegetables.

A guide for gardeners who want to preserve the fertility of their soil without the use of chemical fertilizers. Discusses composting and crop rotation among other ideas.

Top notch. If you want to learn how to rebuild your soil in a simple way, read this book. It explains the steps well and has illustrations. Keen to get into spring planting!!

A good place to start, condensed info, but not a lot of details. A good companion/quick reference to John Jeavons, 'How to Grow more vegetables" book.

Guide to healthy soil.

A good basic reader about bio-diverse sustainable gardens but the authors are math nazis and I found it unhelpful for those of us who don't carry a calculator in our pockets along with various measuring devices, complicated charts and other such things. It's a garden, not quantum physics. That said, for a basic understanding of how to grow more food in a smaller space and how to create a compost garden to enrich the soil, it was good. My one other criticism is that the book encourages tilling which, now we know, isn't really necessary if you use the Japanese method of cardboard, good compost/soil mix and hay on top after planting. One, two, three and there you go. No need to dig. Just prepare the plot a few months before and you're golden. Happy Spring.

I've loaned this book to Kristen and will read it after my summer class is over.

Would rate it 3 1/2 stars if possible.

This book has some really good information but I felt like it was often generalized. It's a short book so the authors tried to include as much info as possible but don't go into a lot of detail. I do like their ideas of compost crops, and description of seed starting and transplanting. Worth reading but I think there are better resources out there.

I am not a fan of double-digging.

If your goal is to over complicate and suck the joy right out of it, this is the book for you

Not what I was looking for