Adventures With Alex

Tag: gardening

  • BR319) “The Permaculture Handbook” Book Review

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    The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane.  3/5 rating. 429 pages. Book #35 of 2023. Read August 19, 2023. This is a textbook about some of the practical basics of permaculture on small-scale agriculture. Permaculture is a type of agriculture that revolves around self-reliance and the ability to close waste streams by using these as a…

  • BR311) “Miraculous Abundance” Book Review

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    Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer.  3/5 rating. 226 pages Book #27 of 2019. Read July 16, 2023. This book tells all about this couple’s forays into permaculture-backed agriculture on a small scale. The subtitle of this book sums up their…

  • BR306) “Rambunctious Garden” Book Review

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    Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris. 4/5 rating. 171 pages. Book #22 of 2023. Read June 28, 2023. This book is all about how to best take care of the world’s ecosystems in a way that saves what we find most dear to us. I really loved the idea that…

  • BR299) “Master Gardener Manual” Book Review

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    Master Gardener Manual by PennState Extension. 4/5 rating. 743 pages. Book #15 of 2023. Read May 8, 2023. This was the accompanying textbook for my Master Gardener’s class in Vermont. The amount of information in this book is absolutely overwhelming. It is a true guidebook with information about a wide-array of topics about gardening: from…

  • BR291) “The Thrifty Gardener” Book Review

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    The Thrifter Gardener: How to Create a Stylish Garden for Next to Nothing by Alys Fowler. 4/5 rating. 190 pages. Book #7 of 2023. Read March 5, 2023. This book is the perfect compendium to my Master Gardeners class I’m taking right now! Alys does a great job of bringing together general garden knowledge, specific…

  • BR152) “The One-Straw Revolution” Book Review

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    The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. 2/5 rating. 184 pages. Book #77 of 2020. Read October 22, 2020. This was a huge letdown of a book since I am 110% on board with Fukuoka’s style of “do-nothing” farming. For most of his life, Fukuoka manned a farm where he managed to grow comparable amounts of…

  • BR133) “Second Nature” Book Review

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    Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan.  4/5 rating. 320 pages. Book #57 of 2020. Read August 14, 2020. This is one of Michael’s early books all about the philosophical and physical aspects of gardening. I always enjoy Michael’s writing. He has a lovely flow and tends towards longer, in-depth (maybe run on?) sentences…

  • BR104) The Good Food Revolution Book Review

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    The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen.  5/5 rating.  Book #29 of 2020. Read May 8, 2020. Just, wow! This book is the incredible story of Will’s life purpose to bring healthy foods to underserved families all around the world, but specifically in his home of Milwaukee. I absolutely…