gardenjess's review
5.0
Inspirational and informational. I'm not sure how to categorize this one - it's part memoir, part gardening primer, and part Zen. I'll have to add "Tour Green Gulch Farm" to my bucket list for sure. This covers so many different topics, from plant families, to pests, to design, to Zen, to cooking, to seed saving, organic gardening and farming, eating local, community gardening, prison and school house gardening. I'll definitely refer to this one again and again in the future. Excellent book, web, organization, and catalog resources in the back as well.
Page 379: "All children deserve to be fed well and to know where thier food comes from and how it gets to their table. This is not a privilege but a basic right and a necessity."
Page 304: "Recognizing that ten multinational corporations control one-third of the twenty-three-billion-dollar commercial seed market and 100 percent of the market for genetically engineered or transgenic seed crops, inspries me to work my hardest to avoid using the seed of these same corporations that also control the global pesticide and chemical agriculture market".
Page 121: "From the beginning, the fertility of the garden depends on the fertility of the gardener's imagination, on that wild mind that sees death as a gateway into life, a mind that turns with the same delight toward the toothless jaws of decay as toward the untwining, green shoot. Watching the things of the world come apart and recombine is core Zen work and the fundamental anchorage of every gardener's life."
Page 379: "All children deserve to be fed well and to know where thier food comes from and how it gets to their table. This is not a privilege but a basic right and a necessity."
Page 304: "Recognizing that ten multinational corporations control one-third of the twenty-three-billion-dollar commercial seed market and 100 percent of the market for genetically engineered or transgenic seed crops, inspries me to work my hardest to avoid using the seed of these same corporations that also control the global pesticide and chemical agriculture market".
Page 121: "From the beginning, the fertility of the garden depends on the fertility of the gardener's imagination, on that wild mind that sees death as a gateway into life, a mind that turns with the same delight toward the toothless jaws of decay as toward the untwining, green shoot. Watching the things of the world come apart and recombine is core Zen work and the fundamental anchorage of every gardener's life."
hardcoverhearts's review
5.0
Oh how I loved this book. I wish I head read it years earlier. The early part of the summer was spent with this book in my yard, enjoying all the inspiration she had put on paper. I was so enthused by it that I bought one for my mom to read with me. Well worth it.
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