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Organic Gardening
Organic Gardening
The whole story
Hardback
288
pages
234 x 153 mm
ISBN
978-1-906787-24-0
RRP: £16.99
Price: £15.29
09 April 2009
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From the leading experts in the field, this is the defining account of the organic gardening revolution – a book that summarizes the past, explains all that is happening in the present and trains an informed, hopeful eye on the future.
Organic Gardening answers key questions on this important movement: What is organic gardening? Why is organic growing being adopted by millions of gardeners and farmers worldwide? Can anyone garden organically, wherever they live? What are the environmental benefits of gardening, farming and shopping organically?
In a narrative liberally scattered with delightful anecdotes, celebrity encounters and political and scientific ‘behind the scenes’ insights, the authors trace the movement’s tumultuous development from its humble origins in the austerity of the 1940s, through the seasonal swings of ridicule and obsession in the following decades, to its status today as, in the words of the Royal Horticultural Society, ‘the major influence on 21st-century gardens and gardening’.
This book is written from the very heart of the organic movement in the UK, but also embraces what has been happening elsewhere in the world.
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