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# 40+ years farming wisdom Diverse crops: veggies, grains, pulses Comprehensive veganic techniques Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Pulses, Grains, and Perennial Food ... with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs

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## Summary

> 🌿 Grow your future, fuel your freedom — the ultimate guide to radical gardening!

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- **What is this?** Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Pulses, Grains, and Perennial Food ... with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs
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## Key Features

- • **Diverse Crop Mastery:** Grow vegetables, grains, pulses, and perennial foods for year-round abundance.
- • **Radical Self-Reliance:** Master plant-based farming with zero off-farm inputs for true independence.
- • **Resilience in Any Economy:** Build confidence to thrive regardless of global disruptions or market volatility.
- • **Sustainable Soil Fertility:** Harness compost, green manures, and forest byproducts to enrich your land naturally.
- • **Practical Homesteading Skills:** Learn milling, baking, sprouting, freezing, and fermentation to maximize your harvest.

## Overview

Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening distills over four decades of expert farming into a comprehensive manual for sustainable, veganic agriculture. This book empowers readers to cultivate a diverse range of crops using only on-farm resources, eliminating dependence on fossil fuels and animal inputs. Packed with practical techniques from seed saving to fermentation, it’s a must-have for anyone aiming to achieve true food independence and ecological resilience.

## Description

"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. . . . Will Bonsall will help you enjoy the good life under any and all conditions."―Eliot Coleman, author of The New Organic Grower "Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries." Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place. In Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening , Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don't always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable agriculture. For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or plant-based, agriculture―not from a strictly moralistic or philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business sense: spend less instead of making more. What this means in practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial plants: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts―even uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut ( Apios ). Inside Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening you'll also find: Milling, baking and sprouting Freezing and vermentation Best practices to handle plant disease and animal pests Collecting and storing seeds And so much more! In a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming experience. "My goal," he writes, "is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it might be a good beginning."

Review: Helpful book - I found this book really interesting, more for people who own large land or acres, but theres are lot of useful tips in terms of how to grow veg, wheat, herbs etc, how to improve soil and how to reuse everything and save money.
Review: Bloody Superb! - This book has all that you'd ever need to know to grow plant foods on a smallholding or home farm, independent of externally sourced fertility. It's written beautifully and provides enough confidence for families worried about the current economic climate, to become as self sufficient as they choose to be. A timeless heirloom tome that will be highly valued as it's passed down the generations.

## Features

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | 779,946 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 859 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture 984 in Self-Sufficiency & Green Living 1,153 in Garden Design & Planning |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 204 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Helpful book
*by A***A on 14 January 2023*

I found this book really interesting, more for people who own large land or acres, but theres are lot of useful tips in terms of how to grow veg, wheat, herbs etc, how to improve soil and how to reuse everything and save money.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bloody Superb!
*by N***E on 7 November 2019*

This book has all that you'd ever need to know to grow plant foods on a smallholding or home farm, independent of externally sourced fertility. It's written beautifully and provides enough confidence for families worried about the current economic climate, to become as self sufficient as they choose to be. A timeless heirloom tome that will be highly valued as it's passed down the generations.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my all time favourites
*by M***E on 22 February 2020*

Written with wit, knowledge and depth of experience. I find myself constantly coming back to this book. I have a very large collection of gardening/horticultural books and this book stands head and shoulders above most of them. An absolute must for any gardener, farmer, horticulturist, plant lover!

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