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Publishers Weekly- "Homesteader, organic farmer, and visionary Bonsall offers a thorough, albeit apocalyptic, farming guide to surviving the current times and, if need be, the end times. The title is misleading; the book is not so much a gardening guide as a set of survival instructions, and not for the casual gardener. Drawing on 40 years of personal experience growing his own food, Bonsall emphasizes three principles: economic exigency that requires making do; planning to survive a future catastrophe; and transforming civilization. To this end, the book focuses on staple foods, including grains, dried legumes, and oilseeds, as well as the usual greens and root crops, while discussing such fundamentals as assessing soil fertility, composting, using manure (including human), mulching, grafting, pollinating, seed saving, milling, malting, freezing and fermenting. The book will not suit everyone, but those who share Bonsall’s vision will be well served and firmly grounded. Over 200 full-color photos.” “Every gardener and small farmer can benefit from Will Bonsall's decades of focused, quality experience. Will's book is one of the key practical resources you should read―as you reach for full sustainable soil fertility in your garden or farm!â€--John Jeavons, author, executive director of Ecology Action, and developer of sustainable biointensive mini-farming"Will Bonsall’s homestead is a 'thinking farm,' not one engaged in armchair musings about agriculture, but where difficult questions are addressed by intense experimentation. This book pairs the incredible depth of Bonsall’s gardening knowledge with his infectious enthusiasm. It is both a magnificent reference and an inspiring call to action. Every practical lesson throughout is guided by the vision that our humble gardens can affect the world."--Steve Conaway, Conservation and Outreach Director at Greenwich (CT) Land Trust“Every gardener and small farmer can benefit from Will Bonsall's decades of focused, quality experience. Will's book is one of the key practical resources you should read―as you reach for full sustainable soil fertility in your garden or farm!â€--John Jeavons, author and developer of sustainable biologically intensive food-growing“Here is a bright star in the constellation of voices for land-based sustainability. Not only is Will Bonsall incredibly learned – the result of decades of careful studies in the field and out – he is bawdy and brave and bold. His credibility is a Ph.D. in homesteading and his rambunctious wisdom is very worth reading. If you want to learn from a master, you need this book.â€--Janisse Ray, author of The Seed Underground"The risk of describing Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening as a gardening book is that the aspiring reader may miss the reality that it is really a book on life, centered as a good life should be, around a garden. Will is a patient teacher with encyclopedic knowledge. His writing style is warm and authentic, accentuated by his dry New England humor. To read this book is akin to having Will stop by and visit by the glowing kitchen cookstove. He shares a lifetime of observations and conclusions – both useful and essential – and a deep respect for those who have come before us."--Jim Gerritsen, certified organic seed potato grower and owner of Wood Prairie Farm"Will Bonsall―Mr. Scatterseed himself―has done it all, and this book covers it all, from maintaining soil fertility with minimal external inputs to growing annual and perennial vegetables, fruit, nuts, grain, beans, and even oilseed crops. Will’s methods are all vegan based and garden scale, with little resort to tools beyond hand tools and a rototiller and shredder. His description of making oil-seed seed meals and cooking with them is particularly interesting. Will’s book is a great introduction to gardening for the beginner, and it also offers enough brand new original material to delight even the most expert. Best of all, the interweaving of Will’s coherent personal philosophy, decades of gardening experience, down-to-earth style, and touches of humor all make for an interesting, entertaining read."--Carol Deppe, author of The Tao of Vegetable Gardening  and The Resilient Gardener"Eco-efficiency is the key new word and gardens-without-borders is the key new concept with which Will Bonsall illuminates 'this experiment we call civilization.' His view is wide and deep. You can accept his warm, witty invitation to explore the big questions. Or/and you can, with grace and ease, pluck out practical, hands-on directions as needed for all aspects of cyclical food production and use. I will read it again and again for reference, guidance, inspiration, and delight."--Eva Sommaripa, pioneering organic farmer at Eva's Garden in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and the hero of Wild Flavors by Didi Emmons"If you wish to live well and eat well no matter what is going on in the rest of the world, this book is for you. Thresh your own grain and press your own oil. Can't buy seeds, no problem. Can't buy fertilizer, no problem. Will Bonsall will help you enjoy the good life under any and all conditions."--Eliot Coleman, author of The New Organic Grower and The Winter Harvest Handbook
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About the Author
Will Bonsall has worn many hats since going "back to the land," including prospector, draftsman, gravedigger, hobo, musician, logger, and artist, among others; however, he considers subsistence farming to be the only true career he ever had. He is the director of the Scatterseed Project, which he founded to help preserve our endangered crop-plant diversity. His first book, Through the Eyes of a Stranger (Xlibris, 2010), is an eco-novel set in a sustainable society of the future. Will lives and farms in Industry, Maine, with his wife, Molly Thorkildsen, and two sons.
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Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (June 10, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603584420
ISBN-13: 978-1603584425
Product Dimensions:
8 x 1 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
44 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#124,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is *the* book. There are a lot of other fine books out there but if you want to achieve food self-sufficiency living off your own land, particularly if you won't be adding animal inputs for any reason, this is a very straightforward, well-organized and well-written guide. Bonsall's practices are a result of decades of research and experimentation. Because he lives in mountainous west-central Maine, his book is tailored to the short growing season and acidic, rocky, forest-derived soils of the area. He doesn't have the fertility of midwest soils, or the long growing season of the west. Bonsall has discovered how to maximize fertility for a difficult growing region, using the most inexpensive equipment and inputs. Everything in this book is directly relevant to what I personally need to know to produce well on my own property, including unusual self-sufficiency subjects like how to grow grain in a garden plot, how to construct a very efficient composing system, how to fertilize with available inputs like leaves, how to neutralize acid with available inputs like wood ash, how to choose the right cover crop, when to plant, what tools to use, I could go on and on.Bonsall is much in demand in his region for lectures because he is an engaging, entertaining speaker and this comes through in his book. In person, he answers a straight question with a straight answer, and that is how his book is. He gets to the point, doesn't dither, gives you concrete, practical information born of a boundless curiosity and long experience.What's more, all his decisions are backed by an essential desire to work _with_ nature and not against it, to farm ethically and eat ethically. You could love his book for his philosophy alone. Bonsall is known for his Scatterseed Project, which makes sure that plant diversity is maintained in an era when a few corporate seed giants have virtually eliminated thousands of plant varieties. The danger of our food sources being reduced to only a few landraces is that this threatens a food with extinction if a disease or insect should wipe out the breed. Bonsall's Seed Saver's network is literally behind ensuring that we and our progeny will have food in the future. This is only relevant to the book in that he mentions certain varieties of vegetables and grains that work with various climatic or soil challenges. He demonstrates that the choice of plant variety alone can make you productive when the industrial seeds do not work in your region.Get this book. It's terrific.
Most gardening books are written based on information from other gardening books - I never realized that until I read this book. It isn't that he disagrees with conventional information, it is that he seems to have developed his knowledge and skills in a vacuum. Every chapter contains ideas that blow my mind.For example, composting books all talk about manure, manure, manure. In chapter one, this author points out that manure is less efficient than just taking the same grass and composting it. It is obvious, but it provided a totally new perspective to me. In chapter two, he casually gives a run down of green manures (cover crops) and each of their individual strengths and weaknesses that is better than anything I have read elsewhere. In chapter three, he makes a very strong case for just using shredded leaves as a primary fertility builder for a garden, rather than smaller amounts of richer fertilizer - again, something I had not heard of before or seriously considered.He goes on like this, chapter after chapter. Part of the reason his viewpoint is so unique is precisely because he is so radical. He still uses an outhouse and based on his writing style, I think he is probably a very uncompromising man. Plus, he is in Maine, so anything that works for him will probably work anywhere. I have read a lot of gardening books, and this is a rare masterpiece.
This book exceeded my expectations! I have been gardening for over 40 years and I learned new, valuable things from Mr. Bonsall's book. I love his writing style, his sense of humor, and the practical information he shares. He doesn't give shallow, general information like so many gardening books but goes deeper and shares the results of his garden experiments and experiences, shares time and energy saving tips, companion planting tips that actually make sense, tips on cover crops, growing and harvesting grains, growing fruit crops. I own dozens of gardening books on various topics and I'll have to say that this is one of the most informative and entertaining gardening books I have ever read for the experienced gardener. It is probably not the best for the beginning gardener looking for the basic how-tos but it is a joy to read anyway!
This is a book I can read from cover to cover. So far it addresses everything I want to do in my garden including composting, mulching and how to prepare for all seasons using everything you have. Bonsall is an entertaining writer and is knowledgeable without being preachy. You can take some ideas and leave others. I'm getting a clearer understanding of how to setup and work my garden and work flow and I can't wait to start these things in the spring. Whether I needed step by step setup or just ideas for putting all my resources and waste to work, this book really helped me make sense of it all.
I'm almost finished with my first reading, and while I haven't implemented any of the practices yet to see how functional they are, I really like his simplicity and practicality and intend to implement as much of his fertilization techniques as much as possible. A lot of his experience and focus is specific to his location in Maine, so if your temperate zone is too far away from his, a pretty good portion of the book will be of little use. He has some odd humor, but, he's a farmer; I'm guessing that the plants don't give good feedback on his jokes.
I have many books on sustainable agriculture and organic growing. They all have their special spot in my garden as I build a permaculture customized to my AZ environment. Mr. Bonsall doesn’t disappoint and has brought new ideas by way of incorporating methods benefiting the entire natural world around me. It’s not just a means to an end of growing food for my family - although amazing, healthy crops are a natural biproduct of Mr. Bonsall’s ways of doing things. Highly recommended!
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