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• Winner of About.com Reader's Choice Award: Best New Gardening Book 2012

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ForeWord Reviews -In The Resilient Gardener, scientist and author Carol Deppe offers readers an inspiring approach to gardening. For many, gardening is a hobby-a source of solace and an experiment in self-sufficiency. Gardens are designed to offer up good things during good times-handfuls of bulbous tomatoes after weeks of careful watering, weeding, and monitoring for invading insects, for example. But what happens when gardeners-along with the rest of society-face uncertain times?Uncertain times, caused by an unstable economy, changing weather patterns, or personal injury, result in an expanse of time when the garden suffers because people have other priorities. With this premise in mind, Deppe introduces the concept of resilient gardening. In Deppe's world, gardening transcends the world of leisurely pursuit and transforms into an act of empowerment.In twelve intensely detailed chapters, The Resilient Gardener empowers readers with the knowledge they need to design, build, and

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Oregon plant breeder Carol Deppe specialises in developing public-domain crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human survival for the next thousand years.

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