My Top Thirteen Favorite Organic Gardening Books | Essential Reading for Every Organic Gardener
Here’s a list of my top thirteen favorite gardening books and a couple of bonus cookbooks as well!
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On Productivity
You can’t go wrong in the garden or on a farm with the organic techniques laid out in these three essential gardening books on growing productive vegetable beds.
The New Organic Gardener by Eliot Coleman
Jon Jeavon’s
The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
| Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live |
Homegrown Humus: Cover Crops in a No-Till Garden (Permaculture Gardener) (Volume 1)
Books on Gardening Basics
My love of gardening definitely starts in the pages of Rodale’s either books or magazine.
Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs
Rodale’s Basic Organic Gardening: A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Healthy Garden
Books On Flower Farming
One of the take-a-ways I love most about the Flower farmer book is the introduction where the idea that flowers could be more profitable then vegetables first enters my mind.
Lynn Byzanski’s Flower Farmer
Cool Flowers: How to Grow and Enjoy Long-Blooming Hardy Annual Flowers Using Cool Weather Techniques
by Lisa Ziegler
Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
I love the way Anastasia Cole Plakais and Liz Carlise go into the business side of growing food for profit.
by Liz Carlisle
Richard Wiswall Organic Farmer’s Handbook is a must have for profitable tips and secrets.
and two bonus cookbooks:
The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest
for a no fail pie crust (almost 100% of the time) and many other delicious recipes this is my go to cookbook almost everytime
Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook and this book is the most likely book fro me to find recipes I can alter for Mike and vice versa!
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About the author, Jackie Marie
I'm an artist and educator. I live at the "Organic Oasis" with my husband Mike where we practice earth friendly techniques in our garden nestled in the mountains of Montana.