Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening is full of practical, immediately applicable advice for more sustainable farming and small-scale food production

What does this book cover?  

Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Pulses, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs is exactly what the title suggests – both a detailed guide to sustainable gardening for the beginner and advanced techniques for vegan and organic subsistence farming.

The book includes simple, easy to follow guides for:

• Maintaining and improving soil fertility without chemical fertilisers
• Choosing annual and perennial vegetables for subsistence farming
• Growing larger crops of grains, beans and oilseeds
• Planting and managing fruit and nut orchards
• Cooking with the foods you’ve grown on your own land

About the Authors

Will Bonsall has been a draftsman, a gravedigger, a prospector, a logger and a musician. However, his true expertise in in sustainable subsistence farming. These days he is the Director of the Scatterseed Project, working to encourage crop-plant diversity.

His Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening is more than just a gardening manual – it is a call to action for more sustainable, less chemically dependent food production at both the small and industrial scales.