Dickinson Organic Garden Library

 

Books we own and are willing to let YOU borrow:

The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases. Barbara Pleasant
" Techniques for Prevention and control, Tips for easy identification, and analysis of over 50 garden diseases"

Dead Snails and Leave No Trails. Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor
" This book is all you need to declare war on pests in your home and garden without exposing yourself, family, and the environment to harmful chemicals"

Straight Ahead Organic. Shepherd Ogden
" A step by step guide to growing great vegetables in a less than perfect world. Accesible enough for beginning gardeners or aspiring converts to the organic gospel, Straight Ahead Organic pulls no punches providing both a wealth of advice for gardening succesfully and a compelling rationale for gardening naturally"

Permaculture in a Nutshell. Patrick Whitefield
" Permaculture in a Nutshell  is a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and practise of permaculture in temperate climates. It covers how permaculture works in the city, the country and on the farm and explores ways in which people can work together to recreate real communities"

The Backyard Berry Book. Stella Otto
" If your dreaming of harvesting mouth-watering small fruits in your own backyard...read this book. If your already trying small fruit production and harvesting a peck of problems...read this book."

Gardening for Life: The Biodynamic Way. Maria Thun
" Biodynamic techniques recognize that plant life is intimately bound up with life of the soil; that soil itself is alive and vital and that the dgree of vitality has a direct bearing on the health of the crops. This beautifully illustrated, comprhensive guide is a must for all thoughtful gardeners wishing to work in harmony with heaven and earth"

Ecological Design. Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
Ecological Design is not a book about things, but rather one about systems, patterns, context, integration, and ultimately about vision, which is where good design begins. To say that Ecological Design deserves a large readership in the late years of the twentieth century is a bit like saying that folks on the Titanic needed lifeboats"

The New Organic Grower. Eliot Coleman
" With more than 45,000 sold since 1988, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables"

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden. John Jeavons and Carol Cox
" The Sustainable Vegetable Garden presents the basic principles of this gardening classic in concise, easy to understand terms accesible to even a beginning backyard gardener"

More books to come!!!